Why I built fleeknote: my own note taking & personal knowledge management app

I am some hooked since years to the topic of knowledge management on a personal and business level. My first university program was a specialization on information and knowledge management in the beginning of the 2000s. Since that a lot changed in the scientific field and also in practice. Web2.0 came and left again, social media shifted into algorithmic media and AI put everything before known to the challenge.

In 2025 when vibe coding officially got traction I also tried various things and one of the bigger try-outs was a replacement of Google Keep for my personal usage. I started to work with bolt.new on a prototype and worked until mid 2025 every time to time to scale it to a full featured note taking app. At that time also Omnivore (my desired reader app) closed its doors, so I decided to also put the reader features into my own new app.

I even coined a fancy name for it:

fleeknote was my own approach to have all in one app for notes (similar concept to Google Keep), with a better task management interface and abstraction, a built in articles reader, a journal and on top built AI features like recalling, summary and an AI agent.

Below some screenshot of the task management abstraction layer and the article reader:

Why I built all this?

Simple answer: because AI and vibe coding enabled me to do this and I had a personal need and passion for the topic. Google Keep is a good product but it has a closed ecosystem with no API or possibilities to connect external apps or services. This was my primary motivation to build fleeknote because I wanted to have an API to run automation etc. based on it. And during the creation process I tried to create add more useful feature to create a truly unique personal knowledge management solution.

What’s next?

Is it the one I have always search for? No – unfortunately it is not this universal solution I always wanted but we are getting there. Most of those personal knowledge management solution are very good at storing stuff and make it search-able. But this alone to be just search-able i not enough for me, cause you always need this pro-active intent to do so.

Real knowledge building is done via connecting things, resurfacing them and putting them into perspective. With the smart recall feature in fleeknote, I tried to build similar patterns into my app, but I have to admit this is not the final evolution step, cause this still needs active intervention and control by the user. The next goal for me is to build a system that does recall and connecting tasks complete autonomous with an presentation layer to the user. Stay tuned!