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World's Simplest Note App: Atomic Note

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www.atomicnote.co Hello everyone,

I build a beta version of my product. I want to build a note app which focus on simplicity. What you think about it? What feature should be build on it?

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After using your app for a few days, Here's what I found:

Pros: -The notes section loads immediately, before all other elements.

-Note updates are almost instant.

-Site feels responsive on mobile.

Cons: -Background image is large and takes a while to load on any device. Image is also busy looking.

-The ability to re-size the note pane is nice on my desktop by horrible on my tablet. One mis-swype later and I lost the margins of my notebook. Perhaps consider using a device detection scheme and disabling this feature on mobile.

-Lack of a settings page is annoying. I want to be able to change my password and email associated with my account. The inability to reset a password is also problematic.

-The UI is inconsistent. Once you have the back-end figured out, perhaps consider bringing in a designer (this is minor IMO; keep up your focus on the responsive UI).

Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see your product mature.

I tried to login without giving my Facebook / Google details and I got an error dump which includes your database url amongst other information.

Also why isn't there an option just to write without having to login (doesn't that add to the complexity of the app?)

Hello,

I fix the error page.

I think about just writing notes but in the case of with out of user login the notes can't saving.

And if you want to just write, close and everything be deleted, some chrome web app can do this. So i don't think about that.

Seems pretty nice so far. The first thing(s) that come to mind are: 1) The ability to make multiple notes 2) The ability to tag notes 3) The ability to search said notes

Is the site optimized for a particular platform? Best of luck to you.

Thank you for nice comments.

I think about much about multiple notes. I have to solve how can i make this is the "simplest". For now, i can't find a way to make it.

tag and search also so important and make it to after multiple notes.

For now it is responsive but i'll improve mobile ui. Now, there is some issue for mobile devices.

Seems like you have a solid focus. I'm going to start using you app to keep a to-do list and will get back to you will more comments after using on multiple browsers and platforms. When trying to sign-up, I received a django error message when a cookie was not set (I use a cookie white-list). Perhaps consider having back-end errors triggering your own error pages for UI consistency.

The reason I see the wonky errors is because DEBUG = True in your Django settings file

Thank you so much. I fix this.

Verify your DNS provider settings. When going to http://atomicnote.co you land at GoDaddy parking page.

This is so important. I forgot it. Thank you..

Thanks for everyone! AtomicNote reach first one hundred users! We got a lot of helpful feedback and exciting to building world's simplest note app!

Your background image is so big. I am connecting to internet with my mobile phone and it seems unfriendly. You should optimize background image.

This is also important. I want to make different theme for mobile user. Thank you for feed-back.

funny thing is, i was working on a simple note taking app too. just for fun of course, but i guess this makes us competitors aha ;). i'll see if i can post something within a few days.

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