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-title: My Notes, an Android Markdown App
-description: A small Android notes app for creating, editing, and filtering markdown notes with hashtags.
+title: My Notes — A Markdown App for Android
+description: A small Android note app built on Markwon. The idea wasn't new; the point was learning a platform that wasn't the web.
 date: 2026-05-02
 projectPeriod: 'November 2019'
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 tags: ['tools']
 role: Android app author
 stack: ['Android', 'Markdown', 'Markwon']
-outcome: A functional markdown note organiser and a first exposure to Android development
+outcome: A working notes app and my first time outside the web stack
 audience: technical
 links:
   - label: Source
     url: https://github.com/schmelczer/my-notes
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-My Notes was a small Android note organiser and editor built on top of Markwon.
+A small Android app for writing Markdown notes and filtering them by hashtag. Built on top of Markwon for the rendering.
 
-It let me create Markdown notes and filter them by hashtag. It was also my first exposure to Android development.
+The idea wasn't original — every developer writes their own notes app eventually — and the bar for shipping one wasn't high. What I actually wanted from the project was a few weeks somewhere outside the web stack, in a platform with different conventions about lifecycle, storage, and resource constraints. Android delivered that.
 
-The idea was not new, but the app worked, and the platform was different enough from the full-stack web work I had been doing that the project was worth finishing.
+I don't use the app anymore (it lost a long battle with Obsidian, which is also why I later wrote [reconcile-text](/articles/reconcile-text-3-way-merge/)). I'd still recommend "write a small thing on a new platform" as a way to recalibrate what you take for granted.