Is there a good app for search across all my notes?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it.
50
Opportunity /100
66
Demand /100
20
Competition /100
77
Execution gap /100
1
Apps serving it
9
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to search across all my notes, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no search within a note | missing-feature | 1 | a feature added to search within a note…. Such a simple and great note tool that is missing |
| slow search with large note count | performance | 1 | the search speed and recovery is unacceptably slow. It needs to be more robust. |
| crash when searching inside a note | bug | 1 | I can’t search inside a note without it completely closing the app and kicking me |
| search misses notes containing the word | reliability | 1 | I search for a word in my notes and it sometimes does not find any notes containing that word |
| notes disappear / cannot find | bug | 1 | Every time I try to find something, it’s gone. Vanished. |
| no search for handwritten notes on iPad | missing-feature | 1 | Please enable search on handwritten notes I take from iPad |
| no alphabetical sort for notes | missing-feature | 1 | I would love an option to alphabetize notes though. |
| no way to categorize notes | missing-feature | 1 | All of the notes are all mixed but it will be better if we can catagorize |
| cannot access notes | reliability | 1 | My iPad screen turns black and I can’t even access any of my notes anymore |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Cafe — Restaurant Game | 4.7★ | 92,888 | Free |
Should you build it?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it. Opportunity here scores 50 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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