I'd try a new notes app every two months. Obsidian, Bear, Notion, Apple Notes, Logseq, Tana, Reflect. Each promised the same thing — a place for everything — and each had the same problem: at the exact moment I wanted to capture something, I had to open the app.
The app I never had to open was WhatsApp. It's already in my hand. I send myself voice notes there. I forward links there. I screenshot menus there. Functionally, my fastest text editor.
So I built one that treats WhatsApp as a first-class input and pairs it with the kind of web editor I'd want when I sit down to think — links, graph, AI that reads what I wrote. That's Zylnote.
Postgres on Neon. Soft-deleted notes sit in trash for 30 days. Daily PITR backups.
Notes are sent to the AI only when you ask a question or save a note (for one embedding call). No retention by us, no third-party training.
Export everything as Markdown + JSON anytime from settings. Cancel and your data exits the same way it came in.
Email me directly. I read every message. The roadmap is just a folder of notes — half of it came from people writing in.