01 · the problem
Note apps accrete. They start as a text box and end up with folders, tags, backlinks, sync conflicts and a subscription. The interesting question was whether the opposite discipline could survive contact with a real published app: keep it to the one thing, and ship it to a store where actual users would judge it.
02 · what i built
Every element earns its place or goes. There is no account and no sign-up, so a note is anonymous by default and there is nothing to manage. Deleting old notes is part of the premise rather than an afterthought, which is where the name comes from. Built on FlutterFlow over Firebase, which was the second experiment running alongside the first: not a demo or a tutorial build, but a product taken all the way through store review, then maintained for years afterwards, which is where a low-code path is actually tested.
- No account, ever
- No sign-up, no login, no profile. A note is anonymous by default, which means there is nothing to secure, nothing to recover and nothing to migrate.
- One note, one card
- The list is coloured cards, one per note, with search over them. That is the entire information architecture and it does not grow folders later.
- Deleting is the feature
- Clearing old notes is built into the premise rather than buried as housekeeping. The app is named after the idea that most notes should not survive.
03 · what happened
Published in July 2023 and still being updated nearly three years later, most recently at version 2.0.2 in March 2026. Free, on iOS 14 and later, filed under Utilities and Productivity.