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Most journaling apps add friction right when you least want it. xotes opens straight to a text box, so you get the thought down before it slips away, no menus, no setup, no extra taps. Then it sorts each quote, idea, or observation into a simple library you can actually return to months later. And your words stay yours: never used to train AI, never sold, never rewritten. A calm, modern commonplace book.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Ethan, the solo founder of xotes.
I built this because I kept losing the thoughts I most wanted to keep. A line from a book, a half-formed idea, a song lyric late at night, all of it scattered across paper journals that fell apart and notes apps I could never search. Saving things was easy. Finding them again was impossible.
Then I learned about the commonplace book, the centuries-old habit of gathering everything worth keeping in one place, and realized that was the thing I'd been trying to build my whole life. So I made it. xotes opens straight to a text box, so you get the thought down before it slips away, then sorts each entry into a simple library you can actually return to months later.
One thing I care about deeply: your words stay yours. xotes never trains AI on your entries, never sells your data, and never rewrites you.
I'd love your honest feedback, especially from fellow journalers and note-takers: what's made past note apps fail to stick for you?
One thing that would make this even better is a quick search bar at the top of the library, so I can jump straight to a past note by typing a word or two instead of scrolling. Maybe with a keyboard shortcut so I can hit cmd+k and instantly find that quote I saved three months ago.
the jump straight to a blank text box is such a smart call, every other journal app buries the actual writing behind two or three taps and the moment is gone by then.
The instant text box is exactly what I've been wanting, no setup screens getting in the way when an idea hits. Love that everything just lands in a clean library I can actually search later.
love that it drops you right into a blank text field the second it opens, no menus or anything getting in the way when inspiration hits. and the promise that nothing is ever used to train AI feels really rare these days.
About xotes, your modern commonplace book on Product Hunt
“The notebook for things you never want to lose”
xotes, your modern commonplace book was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #127 on the daily leaderboard. Most journaling apps add friction right when you least want it. xotes opens straight to a text box, so you get the thought down before it slips away, no menus, no setup, no extra taps. Then it sorts each quote, idea, or observation into a simple library you can actually return to months later. And your words stay yours: never used to train AI, never sold, never rewritten. A calm, modern commonplace book.
xotes, your modern commonplace book was featured in Productivity (656.3k followers), Writing (59.3k followers) and Notes (8.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 162.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted xotes, your modern commonplace book?
xotes, your modern commonplace book was hunted by Ethan Peterson. 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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