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xotes, your modern commonplace book
The notebook for things you never want to lose
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?
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.
On the analytics side, xotes, your modern commonplace book competes within Productivity, Writing and Notes — topics that collectively have 723.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how xotes, your modern commonplace book performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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.
For a complete overview of xotes, your modern commonplace book including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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