Current Card
I built a reminder app that doesn’t send notifications
A little over a year ago, I left my job at a big tech company after ten years in tech. I was burned out and didn’t have another job lined up.
During that time, my memory became unreliable. I’d forget small intentions: visiting a bookshop, or bringing something up the next time I saw a friend.
I wanted to remember these things, but I found notification sounds and complicated to-do lists overwhelming.
That became the starting point for Current Card.
The app keeps one active card in a place you choose, such as your Home Screen, Lock Screen or StandBy. Seeing it again is the reminder. It doesn’t send notifications.
Keeping it to one card was a deliberate choice. I wanted to avoid turning it into another list to manage. I also called the exit action “Let go,” because no longer needing a thought in view doesn’t always mean you completed a task.
I recently shared Current Card on V2EX and gave away some Pro codes. That brought in downloads. I don’t yet know how many of those people will keep using it, or which situations it will become useful for.
That’s the part I’m trying to understand now: whether this little gap in my own life is a gap other people recognize too.
If you’ve built a deliberately small app, I’d like to hear how you found the people it was right for.
App Store： https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794661378
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