How the idea of ERA was born

For years, we were searching for a good note-taking solution that can be used as a professional software engineer.

We tried many products and methods:

• Storing notes in a simple text file on my computer
• Storing notes in a physical notebook
• Storing notes in Word or Google Docs
• Adapting various commercial and free software products (Evernote, Notion, OneNote, etc.)

We weren’t thrilled with any of these approaches:

• Storing notes in simple text files was too primitive
• Word or Google Docs was “too much”, as these tools have too many options and were not built for our purpose.

On the other hand, using products such as Evernote or Notion wouldn't make us happy either because they are “over-engineered”:

• too many features
• bloated UI
• too much action
• targeted towards a broad range of users

We concluded that none of them would match our needs.

At that moment the idea of ERA was born. Solving our problem that we share with many other developers.