Quicks vs Nota

Quicks is an app built for one thing: writing down what comes to mind, right away. You can start typing as soon as you open it, with no titles to add or folders to sort into. It doesn't have many features, but that lets you focus on capturing. Capture instantly: You can start typing as soon as you launch the app, and pressing Return saves it. The input field clears when you save, so you can keep capturing as ideas keep coming. Capture from Apple Watch: Just speak to your Apple Watch to capture. There's no need to take out your iPhone. Capture from Mac: On Mac, press ⌘N to go to the input field and capture using only your keyboard. Hover over an item to show the edit and delete buttons. iCloud sync: Everything you capture syncs via iCloud, so you see the same list on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Tap to copy: Tap an item to copy its text. It's handy for searching a keyword that caught your attention or pasting text into a message. Organize later: You can add to your ideas later, or give them emoji icons so they're easy to tell apart. On iPhone, touch and hold to reorder and swipe to edit or delete, so you can keep what matters most at the top. When to use it: Capture ideas that come to you on a walk or after a shower, keywords that catch your attention in a conversation or a book, and plans or shopping items you suddenly remember. You can also keep text and contact details you use again and again. Dark Mode and VoiceOver: Both are supported. Keyboard shortcuts on Mac: ⌘N: Go to the input field / Esc: Finish typing In the edit screen: ⌘S: Save / Esc: Cancel

You had a great idea this morning. You were in the shower, or walking, or halfway through something else. By the time you sat down to write it up, it was gone. Not entirely — just blurry enough to lose the edge that made it worth capturing. Nota exists for that moment. Open the app and speak. Or type, if that is how you think. There are no rules about how you capture — only that you do. A quick voice note on a walk. A typed thought between calls. An imported recording from a meeting you wanted to revisit. Nota takes whatever you give it and turns it into something structured and useful, automatically. After you capture a note, Nota goes to work. It transcribes your audio on-device, privately, without sending anything to a server. Then it reads what you said and produces a clean summary, a list of action points, key moments you can jump to, and insights — patterns, risks, decisions — surfaced from your own words. You do not have to read back through everything. You do not have to organize anything manually. You open the note and the value is already there. If you want to go deeper, you can talk to your note directly. Ask it what decisions were made. Ask it to list the open questions. Ask it to summarize just the part about pricing, or the part about the timeline. The note assistant understands your content and answers in plain language. It is not a search bar. It is a conversation with your own thinking. That is what a single note gives you. But the real shift happens when your notes start talking to each other. Over days and weeks, you capture more. Customer calls. Product ideas. Research conversations. Weekly reflections. Each one is useful on its own. Together, they hold something larger — a pattern, a direction, a story about where things are heading — that you would never see by reading them one at a time. Smart Notes is how Nota surfaces that bigger picture. You give it a topic and a time range. It reads across your notes, finds what is relevant, and composes a single, coherent output. Your week of product thinking becomes a strategy document. Your last five customer calls become a list of the things people actually want. Your scattered ideas about a launch become the outline of a plan. You did not write any of that. You just captured, consistently, the way you already think. Nota is private by default. Transcription runs locally on your device using on-device AI. Nothing is sent to a server unless you choose to use cloud processing for longer or more complex recordings. There are no accounts to create, no logins, no data handed over before you have even decided if you trust something. You open the app, you capture, and what you say stays yours. Everything you produce — transcripts, summaries, action points, insights — can be exported in whatever format you need. The audio is yours too. Nota works for founders who want to stop losing what came out of a customer call. For creators who think through episodes out loud before they write a single word. For students who need to capture a lecture and come back to the key points without replaying the whole thing. For anyone who has ever had a good idea and watched it dissolve before they could use it. You think faster than you type. Start there. Capture anything. Understand it. Build on it. Terms of Service: https://trynota.ee/terms/