Catchlight keeps the notices it has shown you, newest first, in a list you can read back. A message about a sync problem shouldn't disappear the second you tap OK and leave you wondering what it said an hour later. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

Dismiss quietens tonight. Stop reminding ends it and lifts the reminder off the Take for good. On a repeating one it's right there in the notification. Tick the last task on any Take and Catchlight asks whether you're finished with it. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

A reminder you've pushed back twice shouldn't look identical to one you've never seen. The edge of the card says OVERDUE or SNOOZED, so where a thing stands is visible while you scroll past it, not after you've opened it. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

Say "new Take in Catchlight" and Siri asks "what's your Take?". You answer, and it's saved. No editor opening, no keyboard, nothing left to tap. The thought is finished where you stood. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

A shop can develop film on the premises, and seal the envelope properly, and still keep a shoebox under the counter with a second set of everybody's prints in it. Which of the three phrases on a privacy page is actually answering that? catchlight.app/journal/end-to-end-zero-knowledge-on-device/

Four spoken phrases for a new Take, 4 more for a new Obie, and it opens the editor with the keyboard up so you can dictate straight in. A lock screen widget as well, and a blank capture card for the home screen. They all land in the same place, no folder to pick. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

There's a page on the site comparing Catchlight to Apple Notes, Bear, Obsidian and the rest, and it says where they're better. Apple Notes is frictionless in a way I haven't matched. Writing that down cost me nothing I wanted to keep. catchlight.app/compare/

You never pick a type in Catchlight. A Take is a note, and a task, and a reminder, all at once or none of them, and it changes its mind as often as you do. The annoyance was never the app, it's the deciding what a thing is before you've written it. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

Catchlight is warm dark by default. Not black, not grey, warm. I spent longer on that than on features people will actually list, because an app you open 30 times a day at 11pm shouldn't be shouting at you. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

Advanced Data Protection is the iCloud setting that makes your notes unreadable to Apple. New UK users can't turn it on any more. If a protection can be removed by a decision you never got a vote on, whose was it? catchlight.app/journal/uk-advanced-data-protection/

A thought at the bus stop shouldn't need your face first. Capture from the lock screen and Catchlight opens a blank editor straight away. Face ID happens once, when you save. Discard instead and it's gone, nothing written, nothing to unlock for. catchlight.app

The colour on a Take card isn't doing one job. The surface says how much it matters. The border says what state it's in, and there's an order, overdue beats Obie beats done beats task. Finish everything in a Take and the body greys out. catchlight.app

Export isn't only the big all-of-it button. Any single Take exports on its own from its long-press menu, straight into the share sheet. One thought, out, wherever you're sending it. No export screen, no waiting on one big file with everything else in it. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

Some Takes are really just a list. Shot List views any Take as a plain reorderable checklist. Drag to reorder, swipe to delete or mark done, and multi-line items land where you dropped them. Close it and it's a Take again. catchlight.app #buildinpublic

Your 12 words are the only key to your writing. Treat them the way you'd treat the only key to your house, because that's what they are. Don't leave the only copy in a screenshot, sitting in the cloud you're trying to stay private from. catchlight.app/journal/password-manager-for-thoughts/

Catchlight can tell you when a Take was created, or never mention it. Off, only while you're editing, or always on, and it lives in Appearance. A date on every line is noise right up until the day it's the only thing you need. catchlight.app

Your Takes sit under a month heading as you scroll, JULY 2026 then AUGUST 2026, always there rather than appearing when you go hunting. Tap the heading and you're looking at that month alone. Tap it again and you're back. No folders to keep tidy. catchlight.app

Bins on a Tuesday. Meds every morning. The thing that only happens on weekdays. Catchlight repeats hourly through to annually, with presets for every weekday, weekends, or days you pick yourself. Delete one occurrence and the rest carry on. catchlight.app

Question for the note-takers. When something goes missing, is it because you never wrote it down, or because you can't remember what you called it? Mine was always the second one. Catchlight's search rides the keyboard, so finding is the same gesture as writing. catchlight.app

Open the app your private writing lives in and start a password reset. Don't finish it, just watch. If it hands your old notes back afterwards, someone other than you could always open them. catchlight.app/journal/who-holds-the-key/

Catchlight is iPhone only right now. No iPad, no Mac, no web, no Android. That's a real limit and I'd rather say it here than have you find out after installing. iPad is next. The sync format is deliberately plain so the rest can follow. catchlight.app

If you already love an open-source notes app like Notesnook or Standard Notes, honestly, keep using it, they're good. Catchlight's bet is narrower, no account at all, no server, and notes, tasks and reminders as one thing. Different trade, same privacy spine. catchlight.app/compare

Every Take in Catchlight carries a small aperture beside it, six blades. One glance tells you whether it's a note, a task, something with a time on it, or the one that matters most. No badges, no legend to learn. catchlight.app

No sign-up screen. No email, no password, no account to delete later. You open Catchlight and start writing. There's no record of you at my end because one was never created. Most privacy is a promise. This is just a fact. catchlight.app

Catchlight is calm by default, warm tones that won't distract. It's incredibly quick to save your thought, then it get's out of your way. No grid of features shouting for attention. Just your thoughts, in the order you had them. catchlight.app

People reach for a padlock to explain encryption and I've never liked it. A padlock stops you getting to the thing. Encryption changes the thing itself. I wrote down what the word actually means, no maths. catchlight.app/journal/what-encryption-actually-is/

When did a notes app last try to keep you in it? Streaks, a badge, a red dot, a little nudge to come back tomorrow. Catchlight has none of that. No engagement machinery, because it isn't trying to win your evening. Write the thought down, then put the phone down. catchlight.app

Anti-lock-in, built in. If you ever leave Catchlight, your notes leave with you. Readable and exportable as plain text any time, even if the subscription lapses. They were only ever on your device. You shouldn't need permission to keep your own thoughts. catchlight.app

Question for the list-keepers. Of everything on your plate today, could you point to the single thing that matters most? In Catchlight you can raise one item above the rest, the thing to see first. Only one. The moment two things are most important, neither is. catchlight.app

Genuine question for the note-takers here. How many apps does one thought pass through before it's "sorted"? For me it used to be three. Notes, tasks, reminders. Catchlight is my attempt at one. The same item, shaped by you, a note, a task, a reminder, or all three. catchlight.app