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Joonote is a note-taking app that can work entirely in the notification panel, even on the lock screen—no need unlock the screen and open the app—so you can:

Quickly take spontaneous and important notes.
Instantly view your notes, tasks, or checklists whenever you need them.

To illustrate, here is how you can quickly add notes right from the lock screen—no need to unlock your phone or open the app:

A notification shown on lock screen that users can quickly tap to create a new note

Quickly create notes from the lock screen

Users can also view, edit, and delete notes right from the lock screen—again, no unlocking or opening the app needed.

View

Edit

Delete

Mark completed

Joonote also includes these features:

Checklists – for shopping, cooking, meal planning, or any to-do.
Private notes – hide notes behind the lock screen; once unlocked, they appear as notifications too.
Reminders – set one-time or recurring alerts for important tasks.
Labels & colors – organize notes with custom, colorful labels.
Quick search – find exactly the note you need with a simple search.
Private & secure – notes stay on your device, work offline, and never include tracking, ads, or telemetry.
Auto sync – auto-backup notes and restore them easily on new devices.
Modern interface – no learning curve.
Dark mode – write comfortably without straining your eyes.
Lightweight – tiny footprint on storage and battery.

Create checklists

Set notes to private

Set reminders

Custom & color labels

Dark mode

In Joonote, notes and reminders that are deleted or mark as completed from notifications (on or behind the lock screen) will remain organized in the app:

A navigation drawer showing drawer items as different screens in Joonote — Access Notes, Archive, Reminders, and Trash screens from the navigation drawer

The Notes screen showing notes that are not a reminders, archive, or trash. — New notes appear on the lock screen (or behind it if private) and in the app’s Notes screen.

The Archive screen showing notes that have been archived. — Archive screen contains notes that have been archived.

The Reminder screen showing notes that has a reminder set. — Reminder screen shows notes that has a reminder set.

The Trash screen showing deleted notes, reminders or archive items. — Users can move notes, reminders and archive items to the Trash screen.

Who is Joonote for?

Without having to unlock the screen or open the app, Joonote lets you instantly create, view, edit, delete, label, and mark your notes, tasks, checklists, and reminders as completed. This helps you stay in the flow of whatever you're doing.

Pricing

We offer a 30-day free trial, all features unlocked, for everyone. After the trial, the app becomes read-only. To continue enjoying full access, users can make a one-time payment of just $9 to go PRO forever.

Future Plan

We plan to launch an optional PRO Plus monthly subscription for power users, offering the following features:

Location-based reminder
Voice-to-text
Custom themes
And more (Let us know what you'd love to see)

The Story

The main reason I built this app is quite cliché: despite the countless note-taking apps out there, none of them worked the way I wanted. Every single one required me to unlock my screen before I could do anything with my notes. This was tedious and became especially frustrating when I was doing my grocery. I also wanted it to be visually pleasing and intuitive to use, while packed with a baseline feature set that's expected of a note-taking app.

Who made this app?

Joonote was made by Yeewei, a self-taught indie developer who just wants to put his dent in the universe while caring a lot in what he does: privacy, speed, ethics, simplicity, lightweight, UI/UX, accessibility, and code architecture. You can write him an email at kyw6wyk@gmail.com.

Supported platforms

Android 8.1 and up