---
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'
thumbnail:
  src: ./_assets/my-notes.png
  alt: Screenshots of the My Notes Android app.
tags: ['tools']
role: Android app author
stack: ['Android', 'Markdown', 'Markwon']
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
---

A small Android app for writing Markdown notes and filtering them by hashtag. Built on top of Markwon for the rendering.

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.

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.