Grug Notes, a simple take on text notes
Hey hacker news, I've worked on a note/wiki app nights and weekends for almost two years. While still missing some essentials and polish, I'm happy with the progress and some of my use cases: personal CRM, work notes, and a place to write/record funny things my kid says. I bought into the hype a few years ago with linking apps but quickly grew tired of spinners and steep learning curves, so I started over with a text box and my HTML skills from twenty years ago. Then Chatgpt came out, giving me the tools to add a bit of magic and dig into my stance on simplicity even more. I'd love…
Grug Notes, a simple take on text notes launched on August 18, 2024 with 100 votes, #628 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Grug Notes is a text-based note-taking and wiki app designed for personal use cases like CRM management, work notes, and personal recording. Built by its creator after two years of development, it prioritizes simplicity over complex features, using a straightforward text box interface rather than the elaborate linking systems found in competing apps. The app incorporates AI capabilities to enhance functionality while maintaining its core philosophy of ease of use.
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From the sources
self-organizing notes for your grug brain
Grug can. Grug organizes, remembers, answers. Edits, reminds, plans. Talks. Emails. Calculates. (hint: ChatGPT and Apple Notes had a baby. Notion was not invited.) Record multi-speaker meeting notes. Ramble through a long solo brainstorm. Capture a two-sentence memory before it disappears. Wikipedia was a great way to organize information. Grug Notes uses the same idea, just simpler, just automatic, and just for you. Mention someone and they get their own page — phone numbers, emails, addresses, every conversation in one place. Same for companies and dates. Grug can operate Grug Notes. Email Grug, message Grug on Telegram — Grug help. Schedule Grug to check in on your goals, send you a…from grugnotes.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey hacker news, I've worked on a note/wiki app nights and weekends for almost two years. While still missing some essentials and polish, I'm happy with the progress and some of my use cases: personal CRM, work notes, and a place to write/record funny things my kid says. I bought into the hype a few years…
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