The itch
I've bounced between note taking, task tracking apps forever without really been satisfied with one and adopting it outright; Notion, Craft Docs, Apple Notes, Obsidian have all fallen down on how my mind works. I wanted to build something with Cursor so this was a perfect opportunity.
What it does
I built a proper full stack application that allows me to take notes (with live transcription), track tasks and set reminders. I didn't stop there as I integrated Claude to give this simple application some edge, the AI generates a daily brief on what needs my attention, it assists me in completing tasks (creating sub tasks, or providing recommendations on next steps), note taking (summaries and action items for tasks) and transcribed live meetings for me providing follow up questions and connecting the dots with past meeting notes. This last feature triggered another project which I developed for User Interview assistance for my team (Write-up coming soon!)
I did spiral down some rabbit holes by tracking; team capacity, research opportunity signals and product area specific insights. I realised this wasn't the tool for that and scaled it back but the building phase helped me think through the problem and my own usage patterns cemented that it was missing the mark.
Reflection
I forgot how much I loved the craft of building something. I got a lot of energy from it. It reminded me of hand-coding CSS and building sites on PHP and MySQL — except now the bugs are stranger and the iteration is faster.