ClingNote
Notes app that attaches the notes to your files and work
Right now, you can attach multiple notes to the files you’re working on. With this update, I’m adding the reverse as well: one note can now be attached to multiple files.
It sounds simple on the surface, but this was a pretty big change underneath. ClingNote has to keep track of each note-to-file relationship reliably, make sure the same note stays consistent everywhere it appears, and handle things like removing one attachment without breaking the others.
Getting that relationship model working cleanly without creating duplicate notes or weird edge cases took some work, but it’s finally there.
Small feature visually. Pretty big step for what ClingNote can become.
Available on the Microsoft Store & Clingnote.com
That’s where I’m at.
Getting people to change their note-taking habits.
I watched my coworker use my new app all morning. By the afternoon, he was starting a new note in Word.
That pretty much summed it up.
Everyone already has something they use. OneNote. Word. Sticky Notes. Notepad. Maybe a mess of all four.
ClingNote is trying to change one small part of that habit:
Instead of opening a separate notes app and trying to remember where you wrote something, the note stays connected to the work it belongs to.
Open the file. The note is there.
Simple idea. Different habit.
Building it was one problem. Getting people to actually discover a brand new Windows app is turning out to be a completely different one
I’ve been testing short demo videos, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Product Hunt, and a few smaller launch communities.
One thing that surprised me this morning: a 17-second vertical demo on LinkedIn got more traction almost immediately than my last few normal posts combined. Short, to the point, while being informative is the move, I'm learning.
Still very early, but it’s fun finally watching real people land on something I’ve spent months building.
ClingNote itself is pretty simple: notes attach to your files and work, then come back when you return to them.
Open the file. The note is there.
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The LinkedIn result is a useful signal, but the next step seems to be downstream behavior. Did that 17-second demo produce noticeably more installs or active users than your normal posts, or just more engagement?
I kept running into the same dumb problem.
I’d write a note about an Excel file in OneNote, something about a PDF in Notepad, and a reminder for a project somewhere else entirely.
A week later I’d remember the note existed, but not where I put it.
So I built ClingNote.
The basic idea is simple: notes can attach to the files and work they belong to.
Open the file again later and the note comes back with it. Switch to something else and ClingNote switches context too.
It’s local-first, Windows-only, and it also has regular notes, rich text/Markdown, search, multiple notes per file, pop-out notes, etc.
Available on Clingnote.com and the Microsoft Store
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1The context attachment is the interesting part. Have early users started relying on ClingNote for their daily work, or do they still default to OneNote/Notepad because changing the habit isn't worth it?
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