schmelczer-dev/src/content/posts/my-notes-android-markdown-app.md

title	description	date	projectPeriod	thumbnail	tags	role	stack	outcome	audience	links
My Notes: A Markdown App for Android	A small Android note app built on Markwon. The idea wasn't new; the point was learning a platform that wasn't the web.	2026-05-02	November 2019	src alt ./_assets/my-notes.png Screenshots of the My Notes Android app.	tools	Android app author	Android Markdown Markwon	A working notes app and my first time outside the web stack	technical	label url Source 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). I'd still recommend "write a small thing on a new platform" as a way to recalibrate what you take for granted.