Your personal journal for life
I built Minute as my personal online journal. I wanted something that felt modern and made it easy to write something everyday.
I love using it every day and hope you will too!
Without verification, users hit a screen explicitly saying that the app isn’t verified. They then need to click through a flow that feels like it is for advanced users in order to continue.
Now we are all set for a smoother sign in flow. All in all, the process took about 2 week and required two back-and-forths. The first time was to use the proper Google sign in button and the second was to minimize the scopes registered in the OAuth consent page.
One more step towards getting more folks onto Minute!
There is a lot going on with Minute and new users shouldn't get dropped into an empty home page & app.
So, I added in an onboarding flow to set new users up with the following:
Pretty excited about this -- one more step towards opening up Minute.
For new users with no templates and no calendar events, the home page is sparse and isn't very helpful for journaling.
This addition does the follow:
Last month, I shared v1 of the landing page and got a ton of awesome feedback. So a big hearty thank you to everyone that took the time to provide their thoughts and recommendations!
I've incorporated a bunch of the suggestions:
Again, open to all feedback and suggestions:
The new version is live:
I just shipped the first real landing page for Minute. Before this, it was just a title and tagline.
Open to any and all feedback, suggestions, critique, etc.
Thanks!
Minute has become a fixture in my life, and I plan to be building and using it for a long time. So why not build in public, join the community, and have a little more social pressure to make progress? Sounds like a good idea to me :)
Also, I've been following the podcast and lurking in the community for quite a few years. I'm super excited to have a side project to share. To fill out the timeline here, I've gone through notes in Minute that are tagged with minute
, and added a few of the larger features.
I've now needed search on a few occasions, and so I built out an initial implementation that searches notes as well as contacts. I can definitely dive deeper into search but for now, being able to search for keywords is super helpful. Also, searching for contacts is quicker than using the sidebar, so I removed it for the time being.
I absolutely love Superhuman and its keyboard shortcuts. A lot of Minute design is now influenced by Superhuman, and I'm really wanting hot keys to quickly move around also.
I'm not sure if these are really needed right now, but I've got time to hack over the weekend, have never built out hotkeys in an app, and want to give it a try!
I've been using Minute more and more frequently on a desktop, and its about time for a design that looks more like desktop version. For now, I've added sidebars with navigation links, tags, and a contact listing.
I'm not sure what will end up being helpful, and whether it'll make things too cluttered, but this is an initial experiment.
I'm finding myself editing the same note multiple times per day. It could be a note from an event where I add an agenda/plan and then followup thoughts. Or during an event where I continuously jot down things I'd like to remember. Its annoying to keep pressing the edit & save buttons, so now notes are always rendered in the editor and are auto-saved.
A fun implementation detail: if you load too many ckeditors at a time, it is a huge drag on perceived page load. So now notes render statically first, and then the editor gets loaded when a note appears on the screen.
I built Minute as my personal online journal. I wanted something that felt modern and made it easy to write something everyday.
I love using it every day and hope you will too!