Napkin.one — AI meets Sticky notes?
Re-designing the sticky-note. Brilliant, or too far?
You know when you’re taking a shower, and all of the sudden a $1,000,000 idea stumbles into your brain out of nowhere?
What do you do? You rush to your phone and put it into a note.
And over the next few days a few more related ideas come to mind, so you put those in their own notes as well.
But what inevitably happens?
The notes get buried underneath all of the “to-do’s” that fill your note-taking app…
That’s why Napkin was created — as a place to store those flashes of brilliance, and to auto-categorize related ideas so that you can piece them together easier.
Napkin is not designed to be a writing platform, but an “inspiration” catching platform.
Napkin — $10/mth. $300/lifetime
When inputting ideas, Napkin shines.
After clicking the “+” button, you simply write your idea and click save.
Napkin also has the ability to scan text, and has a chrome extension (unfortunately not a safari extension 😔) so grabbing text while exploring ideas and connections is a breeze.
Here’s what caught my attention with Napkin:
It has an AI that auto-tags the ideas.
What’s interesting about the AI is that it doesn’t just read the text and tag the note with a keyword (which is what I assumed at first).
It seems to take the concept and tag the concept.
E.g. I uploaded the 4 stages outlined in this article (preparation, incubation, generation, and validation) and the AI correctly tagged it with “Creativity”.
Napkin also uses “Stacks” where you can create a “stack” (think folder) of multiple notes.
This is helpful because it allows you to essentially “pin” a note to a wall, so you can view it quickly.
When trying to recover your ideas, simply search a word you ay have used, or a tag that is related, and Napkin will automatically pull up all of the notes that meet that requirement.
You can then add them to a stack to review only the relevant ideas.
This is a really interesting app.
If you are a highly creative person constantly coming up with new ideas and looking for a better way to organize and interact with those ideas, then this could be the techie solution.
The app is still very new (e.g. I reached out to support and ended up talking with the co-founder), so I’m intrigued to see where the app ends up over the next year.
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