Your days, down to the dot
DotNotes is a quiet home for what your head carries — notes, a diary, to-dos, a calendar, and one sentence a day.
BeginThe idea
Every day deserves one sentence.
Not an entry. Not a task. Just the line you'd want to find again in ten years — how the kitchen smelled, what they said at the door, the thought that arrived on the walk home. In DotNotes these are called sparks. Write one straight onto the card:
Today
Look up — every spark you keep becomes a star in this sky. They live in this browser, and nowhere else.
The crown
One sentence gets to wear the crown.
Each day you can crown the spark that mattered most. The crowned one moves into a widget on your home screen and waits there — one glowing line in the dark, the first thing you see when you pick up your phone. Crown a spark above and watch it land here:
Star a few more and one arrives each morning as a notification — a line you wrote, handed back to you at breakfast.
The math
A year is only 365 dots.
Each one gets a single sentence. That's the whole ask — small enough to keep on the worst day, warm enough to reread on the best one.
The list
The heavy ones get a page of their own.
Some lines aren't a to-do at all. Move out of the flat is six of them wearing one coat, and it sits at the top of the list for weeks because there's nothing on it you can actually start. So open it. Every to-do has a page — steps you can tick, the date, a repeat if it comes round again, a reminder, the files that came with it, and the longer thought behind the line.
Move out of the flat
2 of 5 done
Nothing left on this one.
Keys go back on the 12th. The deposit is 1,400 — ask about the carpet in the hall before they do.
Tick the steps. The line above them gets lighter as you go — which is the only thing a list was ever supposed to do for you.
The page
Write around what you're keeping.
A photo doesn't belong in a tray above your writing; it belongs at the moment you mention it. Notes are a run of blocks — paragraphs, photos, tables, checklists — sitting where you put them. Underneath it's still plain markdown, so what you write today opens in anything, forever.
Sun 2 Aug
The flat, before
The morning light gets in for about twenty minutes and then it's gone behind the block opposite. I stood in the empty room until it went.
Boxes, so far:
| Room | Boxes | Packed |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen | 9 | yes |
| Bedroom | 6 | yes |
| Study | 11 | not yet |
Headings, bold, italic, highlight, links and checklists — and your voice, turned into words as you speak it, in whichever language you're thinking in.
The month
Two ways to ask about time.
A grid answers what's on the 14th. A list answers what's next — and those are different questions, usually asked in different moods. The calendar does both, on one switch. Events you already keep in Apple or Google Calendar ride along in both.
August 2026
Today
This week
Later
Past
Inside
The rest of a life, kept simply.
- Notes
- Text, photos and tables in the writing itself. Your voice turned into words as you speak, in the language you choose. Folders in any colour when you want order; search when you don't.
- Diary
- A diary that stays a diary. Dated pages, nothing else living there — no counters, no streaks, no widgets between you and the page.
- To-dos
- A line on the list, or a page with steps, files and a reminder behind it. Dates when they matter, repeats when they recur, and someday for the rest.
- Calendar & events
- Month grid or one long agenda, whichever you're asking for. What you plan lands in your real calendar too — Apple, Google, wherever your days already are.
- Sparks
- One sentence a day, kept as a card. Crown one for the home-screen widget, star the ones worth meeting again, and watch them collect in the calendar and the stream.
- Yours
- Your notes live on your phone and sync to your account. Export everything as plain markdown, any time. No ads, no feed, no one reading over your shoulder.
Make it yours
Two moods, and a colour that runs through both.
DotNotes follows your phone from morning paper into night ink, or stays pinned to whichever one you love. This page does the same — pick a mood and watch it change under you.
Then one accent runs through everything — buttons, crowns, the dot itself. Each has a daylight version and a night one, so it glows without shouting:
Even the app icon comes in three: light, dark, and tinted to match whatever your home screen is wearing.