The vision

Our founders have searched for years for the perfect notes/organizational tool to help manage their personal and professional lives.

They couldn't find anything that ticked all the boxes, so set out to create their own - with a strong sense of conviction and a deep hunger for dog food*.

*dogfooding is a practise where the creator of a tool tests/uses it themselves, usually before releasing the product to a public audience.

After a number of private iterations, Notomaton is coming to life as the fruits of this labour with the following primary design goals:

Easy

It should be as easy to use as Google Keep or Apple Notes. Zero-to-minimal learning curve. No programming, scripting or markup/markdown to learn.

This is why Notomaton is web-based and cross-platform, but installable as an app well for easy sharing and quicker access.

Powerful & flexible

Whilst trying not to be an oxymoron, it must also be powerful and flexible for the user - able to handle whatever the user needs to organise themselves. Including things the founders never thought of.

This is why Notomaton is plugin-based, so you as the user can choose the features (and therefore complexity) that you want - and only the parts you want.

For you

Everybody is different, everybody works in a different way - and everybody's mind works differently. It should not require people to learn "the Notomaton way"; instead it should mold to fit your way.

It's also why Notomaton revolves around short-form Post-It-style notes, and links/relationships between them. This, combined with the plugin setup, means Notomaton becomes what you want - not the other way around.

For everything

It should function as a "second brain" or for "outsourcing your memory" for whatever you as the user need. This might mean notes, it might mean saved links to read later, it might mean tasks to do, it might mean your shopping list - anything.

This again is why Notomaton is plugin-based, to support any kind of notes and any kind of methodology you wish for organizing your life.

Private

You, as the user, must own your data. It's yours, not ours. That means not locking it away. Not using it for marketing purposes, not selling it to 3rd parties for any reason, and not using it to train AI models.

This is why AI is opt-in (via a plugin, of course!). It's why there's a paid subscription to fund the platform, and no ads. The only cookies we use are a login session cookie to keep you logged-in, and the essential cookies our payments provider uses (but only on payments-relevant pages).