JotChain
Note taking tool which sends you summaries on schedule and can give you insights into your workflow
Project Overview
I’ve been working in fast-paced startups for 10 years now, and I’ve noticed it’s really hard to keep up with all the stuff I do. Sometimes it’s tough to recall everything by the end of the week (EOW), and it’s annoying when you have to show it off in a meeting or during a performance review.
I tried taking notes on paper, in Notion, Obsidian, Markdown files, and whatnot, but they all either got lost or I simply forgot to keep up with them.
That’s why I decided to take action and build this small tool: JotChain. It lets you jot down quick notes throughout the day, then uses AI to turn them into polished summaries delivered via scheduled email notifications whenever you want them (e.g., right before your stand-up or weekly sync).
Here’s how it works in a nutshell:
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Log wins, blockers, and context in a simple plain-text field (takes ~2 minutes, hit Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to save with optional tags).
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Set your cadence: daily, weekly, monthly, or custom, with timezone, lookback window, and lead time.
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Get AI-generated emails: Structured briefs with sections, key stats, and highlights (e.g., “Completed auth refactor, fixed 5 bugs, reviewed 12 PRs. Blocker: Database performance”).
It turned out to be quite helpful for me, and I’m planning to introduce more features gradually to make building the habit even easier.
Launch (03-11-2025)
Launch went relatively well, I had no high hopes on it since I launched Waytale before that and had almost no traffic. Same happend here, I launched it on X and HN, but got just 81 visit with no conversions.
Well… That’s not that bad, at least someone checked it out and we can probably tell that the problem is in landing page itself, I plan to add one more feature I really need and then record a nice video for a hero section which hopefully will make people understand what product actually does.
Another idea I got today is that I can turn it into PWA with local-first approach, that way I don’t have to build a separate app but can simply use same codebase for both “desktop app” and web version.
Let’s see what happens next…