Ikes is an idea storage app built to capture quotes and thoughts before they disappear. Since our first launch, Ikes has evolved with a smoother UI, full Mac support, and Intelligent features that surface related ideas by meaning, not just keywords. You can also export ideas for AI tools and workflows. With quick capture, share extensions, OCR, filters, and shuffle, Ikes helps you store inspiration, rediscover it later, and turn it into something useful.
Ideas would hit me in the shower, on a walk, or in the middle of work. I could capture them in a notes app, but I would almost never see them again. Capture was easy. Rediscovery was the real problem.
Ikes is built around a different metaphor: an ikesu, the Japanese live well that keeps a catch fresh until it is needed. The goal is not just to store ideas, but to keep them usable. Every idea can have a tag, source, and color, and the app helps bring it back through feed, search, filters, and shuffle.
What feels especially new in this version is the rediscovery layer. Ikes now includes a more polished UI, full support for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Intelligent Search that combines semantic and keyword search, Intelligent Discovery that surfaces related ideas for each note, and export to JSON or YAML so you can use your idea collection in ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM, or coding agents.
It also supports fast capture for text and images, share extensions from other apps, and OCR so screenshots become searchable.
Ikes has been on the App Store for years, but this is the first version where the loop really feels complete: capture, rediscover, and reuse.
I would genuinely love your feedback, especially on what feels confusing, missing, or unexpectedly useful.
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About Ikes: Idea Notes on Product Hunt
“Capture Ideas, Find Them Fast”
Ikes: Idea Notes launched on Product Hunt on April 23rd, 2026 and earned 61 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #38 on the daily leaderboard. Ikes is an idea storage app built to capture quotes and thoughts before they disappear. Since our first launch, Ikes has evolved with a smoother UI, full Mac support, and Intelligent features that surface related ideas by meaning, not just keywords. You can also export ideas for AI tools and workflows. With quick capture, share extensions, OCR, filters, and shuffle, Ikes helps you store inspiration, rediscover it later, and turn it into something useful.
Ikes: Idea Notes was featured in Productivity (650.3k followers) and Notes (8.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 131.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ikes: Idea Notes?
Ikes: Idea Notes was hunted by Shunsuke Yagi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Shunsuke Yagi
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm the maker of Ikes, and I built it for one reason: I kept losing my best ideas.
👉 Download: apps.apple.com/us/app/id1515855107
Ideas would hit me in the shower, on a walk, or in the middle of work. I could capture them in a notes app, but I would almost never see them again. Capture was easy. Rediscovery was the real problem.
Ikes is built around a different metaphor: an ikesu, the Japanese live well that keeps a catch fresh until it is needed. The goal is not just to store ideas, but to keep them usable. Every idea can have a tag, source, and color, and the app helps bring it back through feed, search, filters, and shuffle.
What feels especially new in this version is the rediscovery layer. Ikes now includes a more polished UI, full support for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Intelligent Search that combines semantic and keyword search, Intelligent Discovery that surfaces related ideas for each note, and export to JSON or YAML so you can use your idea collection in ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM, or coding agents.
It also supports fast capture for text and images, share extensions from other apps, and OCR so screenshots become searchable.
Ikes has been on the App Store for years, but this is the first version where the loop really feels complete: capture, rediscover, and reuse.
I would genuinely love your feedback, especially on what feels confusing, missing, or unexpectedly useful.
👉 Download: apps.apple.com/us/app/id1515855107
👉 Check our story and use cases: https://ikes.app
Happy to answer anything in the comments!