During lifetime, a lot of personal information gets misplaced or just lost. We are saving “some” of our information in several places - online or offline. In time, data becomes difficult to find & manage.
What were you doing on March 14th of 2012? When was your last doctor appointment and where? How much have you spent on repairs for your car so far?
The majority of people are not able to answer such questions. Sometimes the answers to these questions can be important. Sometimes not. What counts is that they all come together to form the “big picture”: your lifestream.
The idea is simple: capture and save information to NoterBox. Find it later when needed.
I saw a comment on Hacker News which I believe to be so true:
When you write things down, you’re investing in your future.
The more I thought of it, the more it made sense. At least for me.
While cleaning out my tech-shelf, I hooked up one of my old hard-drives, and rediscovered documents, pictures, notes, even old games - all saved about 18 years ago. Yup, 18 years ago… It may not seem like much, however I was glad to find pictures I forgot about or thought were lost.
Most of the documents were outdated, but: it felt like looking back in time at myself through a mirror. That’s who I was at that time, and that’s what was important to me back then.
There was stuff that right now I would find rather silly, and some that I can actually use today.
That’s when I thought: what if we had a “safe” place to capture and store information that matters? That place would become the: go-to for finding information, life-stream, vault, and who knows - maybe legacy.
That’s what NoterBox is.
The “technical” way I would like to define NoterBox is:
A data-capturing and information management application featuring file attachments
Is it a note-taking app? Yes. Is it a file management app? Yes. Is it a journaling app? It is. It can be any of those or all together - it’s how you use it. People seem to have different patterns of usage when it comes to organizing data.
Some call it “PIM” (Personal Information Management). I am building NoterBox to be an inbox-style app that allows you to easily capture, store and search your data. What data? From scanned docs or email attachments to web-clips, journal entries, reminders, notes. Anything that’s relevant to you.
From my prospective, I need the follwing functionality:
- Easily capture data from several sources;
- Store it;
- Make it available to you via a powerful search engine
I hope I have managed to pique your interest/curiosity enough to subscribe below for a notification when the app will be available. Also here I am pointing out a few of the reasons for which why I am building NoterBox .