A noteworthy new Android note app

I’m always on the lookout for interesting organizational upgrades. (That’s just how cool of a fella I am, y’see.) And when it comes to jotting down notes and reminders, there’s always room for a new and improved — or sometimes even just deliberately different — approach.

That’s exactly what I encountered with a new Android note app that popped up on my radar the other day. It does something I’ve not seen from any of the usual Android note-taking app champions — including the de facto default Google Keep app — and ends up offering a really intriguing efficiency and productivity upgrade as a part of it.

Grab the nearest metaphorical pen, ’cause you’ll definitely want to take (mental) notes on this.

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The Android note app — notification-style

My friend and fellow organizational obsessive, allow me to introduce you to the amusingly named Joonote.

Joonote? Joonote. (If Joo-know, Joo-know.)

What makes Joonote noteworthy is the way it presents whatever notes and reminders you jot down for yourself on Android. Instead of such memos existing solely within an app — or even within a well-designed widget on your Android device’s home screen — Joonote puts all of your new items into their own notifications, which then remain present and accessible from anywhere with a single swipe down from the top of your screen.

That means they can also be accessible from your lock screen, for even easier ongoing access.

Joonote puts all your active notes and reminders into easily accessible notifications.JR Raphael, Foundry

Any note you make with Joonote remains present in that way until you mark it as done. That sticks even after you power off or restart your device. Whenever that happens, within a minute or so of the phone starting back up again, Joonote springs back to life and restores all your pending memos so they’re there and waiting.

You can tap any note from its notification to view it in full or edit it, and you can mark it done even without fully opening it — right from the notification. That’s really what sets Joonote apart from the Android note app pack.

But as a more standard note app, Joonote is also no slouch. It sports a clean and simple design that puts the focus on simple note-taking and the info you opt to save, with the basic tools you need to make memos but no unnecessary frills or distractions.

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Within its note editor, you can create lists, add labels, change the note’s background color, and add a reminder — as well as lock down a note and prevent it from appearing in your notifications and on your lock screen, if you’re ever so inclined.

Simple and frills-free are excellent terms to describe the entire Joonote experience.JR Raphael, Foundry

Joonote has a search system along with sections for notes you’ve finished and archived as well as those you’ve deleted. Its settings serve up the single option to sync your notes with your own personal Google Drive storage, should you so desire, for easy restoring on a future phone where you’ve installed the app and signed in. But by default, everything is stored solely only on your own local device, with instant offline access available and no other sort of cloud connection.

On that same note of privacy, Joonote doesn’t request or require any significant permissions or forms of data access. It doesn’t include ads. Its developer notes that the app doesn’t so much as collect email addresses or basic analytics, either, let alone perform any manner of data-sharing or tracking.

Oh — and there is a well-designed widget where you can see and manage your notes on your home screen, if you also want to go that route.

What’s that — a widget? With interactive options and easy-to-tap commands, even? Not too shabby, Joonote. Not too shabby at all.JR Raphael, Foundry

But mostly, Joonote’s strength is in its simplicity and the unusual notification-based note system it offers. If that sort of setup speaks to you, it may be just the advantageous Android note option you never knew you needed.

Joonote is free for a fully featured 30-day trial without any sign-ups, account creations, or credit cards required. After that, if you want to keep using it, you’ll have to pony up 15 bucks for a one-time lifetime purchase in order to keep the app fully functional.

Only you can decide if it’s worth that price, of course, but as a one-time purchase, it’s an interesting proposition — particularly if you think this is something you’d use for multiple years, thus making its per-year cost increasingly affordable.

But at the very least, Joonote is well worth your while to try, even if only for that initial 30-day trial. It’s a really interesting new way to think about notes and staying organized — and that, in my book, is a noteworthy win.

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