What do you actually want your notes app to DO after you write something?
Most note apps are great at capture and then... that's it! The note just sits there. You still have to reread it, decide what matters, and do the thing yourself.
Building Buddy we got obsessed with the step right after capture. You write or speak your day, and instead of leaving you a wall of text, it pulls out what actually matters and turns it into a small plan it can run – set the reminder, block the focus time, draft the brief. The safe stuff happens on one click; anything that goes to another person stops and asks first.
So the honest question for everyone here: after you dump a thought into your notes, what's the one thing you wish it just... did for you, without you having to come back to it? Curious where capture should end and action should begin.
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I struggled the same way and found CODE methodology from @fortelabs to fight this. Every note is "captured" in time but then revised and updated using a routine to add context (I do pretty much end of the week). This helps distill information in an informed way and as soon as I read the notes from past I almost walk in to the room.
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@amjadkhan_pathan Love this, CODE is a great lens for it. The capture then revisit loop is exactly where the value compounds, because the context you add later is what makes a note worth reading at all. That line about almost walking back into the room is the whole point. That is the experience we want Buddy to help create, turning the weekly distill step into something the tool nudges you through. We are not all the way there yet, but you just described the north star really well.