Noter is a clipboard manager tool designed to help notetakers save time and access notes instantly. During the summer of 2024, I focused on solving the personal challenge of having my notes easily accessible with just one click.
Seamless Productivity
Noter is a clipboard manager tool designed to help notetakers save time and access notes instantly. The clipboard manager widget offers colour-coded notes, a split tag option for category-specific access, and a draggable minimization feature for seamless, clutter-free usability.
Easy Note Categorization
Noter assigns different colours to your notes, making it easy to visually differentiate and categorize information at a glance. Users can also tag their notes and quickly filter through them. By selecting a specific tag, Noter displays all notes within that category, ensuring swift access to information.
Use Cases
Open the Noter widget with just one click, keeping your workspace tidy and your notes easily accessible. This feature is available as a Chrome or Safari extension, ensuring you have access to your notes anytime, anywhere.
Why Noter?
Note taking is directly related to academic achievement, and the ability to process information is directly related to note taking behaviours. However, many note-taking applications in the market are either too complex to use, lack clear functionality, or take up too much space.
Problem Identification in existing Note taking applications
Too Many Features
With the ability to customize the page, font, banner, and other visual aspects of the interface, users may find themselves focusing on more frivolous work rather than concentrating on the main tasks at hand in their note app. Users may find themselves actually procrastinating tedious and difficult tasks while making these customizations.
Analysis - Paralysis
Note-taking platforms like Notion offer multiple ways to display information within data tables. However, this abundance of options can lead to "analysis paralysis" making it difficult for users to decide on the best structure for organizing their information. For instance, should a daily to-do list be formatted as a calendar or a timeline chart?
Bulky Note Taking Apps
Many note-taking apps, like Notion, Evernote, and Notes on Mac, take up the entire screen, which can slow down your laptop and distract you with additional tasks once opened. These apps are not compact or easy to close, making quick note-taking cumbersome.
Notion provides a dashboard of previous entries, requiring users to select a notes tab, which then opens a new window in the Notion app. This isn't effective for quickly jotting down notes.
Evernote addresses this by offering an empty template for immediate note-taking, but it takes up a lot of space as a widget and lacks options for different note categories.
Stickies has an efficient note-taking flow with a minimal space footprint, but it also lacks category options and the ability to view more than two notes at once.
Noter addresses the issues found in competing note-taking platforms by offering a streamlined, efficient solution. Unlike Notion, Noter allows users to jot down notes instantly without navigating through multiple tabs or opening new windows. It combines the space efficiency of Stickies with enhanced functionality, providing different note page options for better organization. Additionally, Noter lets users view multiple notes simultaneously, unlike Evernote and Stickies. This makes Noter the ideal tool for quick, organized, and effective note-taking.
Design Goal To bridge a connection between users and their notes, making the act of note-taking so efficient and fluid that it remains seamless and organized, even when managing multiple tasks and information streams.
Noter Interface Exploration
Noter assigns different colours to your notes, making it easy to visually differentiate and categorise information at a glance. Users can also tag their notes and quickly filter through them. By selecting a specific tag, Noter displays all notes within that category, ensuring swift access to information.
Noter | Clipboard Manager Widget
UX, Ideation, Prototyping, Interaction | 2024
Noter | Clipboard Manager Widget | UX / Ideation / Prototyping / Interaction | 2024
Noter is a clipboard manager tool designed to help notetakers save time and access notes instantly. During the summer of 2024, I focused on solving the personal challenge of having my notes easily accessible with just one click.
Seamless Productivity
Noter is a clipboard manager tool designed to help notetakers save time and access notes instantly. The clipboard manager widget offers colour-coded notes, a split tag option for category-specific access, and a draggable minimization feature for seamless, clutter-free usability.
Easy Note Categorization
Noter assigns different colours to your notes, making it easy to visually differentiate and categorize information at a glance. Users can also tag their notes and quickly filter through them. By selecting a specific tag, Noter displays all notes within that category, ensuring swift access to information.
Use Cases
Open the Noter widget with just one click, keeping your workspace tidy and your notes easily accessible. This feature is available as a Chrome or Safari extension, ensuring you have access to your notes anytime, anywhere.
Why Noter?
Note taking is directly related to academic achievement, and the ability to process information is directly related to note taking behaviours. However, many note-taking applications in the market are either too complex to use, lack clear functionality, or take up too much space.
Problem Identification in existing Note taking applications
Too Many Features
With the ability to customize the page, font, banner, and other visual aspects of the interface, users may find themselves focusing on more frivolous work rather than concentrating on the main tasks at hand in their note app. Users may find themselves actually procrastinating tedious and difficult tasks while making these customizations.
Analysis - Paralysis
Note-taking platforms like Notion offer multiple ways to display information within data tables. However, this abundance of options can lead to "analysis paralysis" making it difficult for users to decide on the best structure for organizing their information. For instance, should a daily to-do list be formatted as a calendar or a timeline chart?
Bulky Note Taking Apps
Many note-taking apps, like Notion, Evernote, and Notes on Mac, take up the entire screen, which can slow down your laptop and distract you with additional tasks once opened. These apps are not compact or easy to close, making quick note-taking cumbersome.
Notion provides a dashboard of previous entries, requiring users to select a notes tab, which then opens a new window in the Notion app. This isn't effective for quickly jotting down notes.
Evernote addresses this by offering an empty template for immediate note-taking, but it takes up a lot of space as a widget and lacks options for different note categories.
Stickies has an efficient note-taking flow with a minimal space footprint, but it also lacks category options and the ability to view more than two notes at once.
Noter addresses the issues found in competing note-taking platforms by offering a streamlined, efficient solution. Unlike Notion, Noter allows users to jot down notes instantly without navigating through multiple tabs or opening new windows. It combines the space efficiency of Stickies with enhanced functionality, providing different note page options for better organization. Additionally, Noter lets users view multiple notes simultaneously, unlike Evernote and Stickies. This makes Noter the ideal tool for quick, organized, and effective note-taking.
Design Goal
To bridge a connection between users and their notes, making the act of note-taking so efficient and fluid that it remains seamless and organized, even when managing multiple tasks and information streams.
Noter Interface Exploration
Noter assigns different colours to your notes, making it easy to visually differentiate and categorise information at a glance. Users can also tag their notes and quickly filter through them. By selecting a specific tag, Noter displays all notes within that category, ensuring swift access to information.