Can I vibe code Evernote?
Capture notes, web clippings, and documents, searchable across devices.
Evernote is the cautionary tale that proves the point: a personal notes app with notebooks, tags, search, and sync has no real moat, which is why a wave of alternatives replaced it. The core — rich notes, attachments, tags, and full-text search — is a weekend build, and web clipping is a browser bookmarklet plus a save endpoint. You lose OCR-in-images search and decade-old sync infrastructure, but for personal use that's a fair trade. Build it and stop paying $15.
Build me a personal note-taking app inspired by Evernote. Features: notebooks and tags to organize notes; a rich-text editor with images and file attachments; fast full-text search across all notes; and a web-clipper bookmarklet that sends the selected text and page URL to a save endpoint as a new note. Sync everything to a hosted Postgres so it's available on any device, with a clean list/detail layout. Use Next.js App Router, store attachments in S3-compatible object storage, deploy to Vercel, and note that image OCR and native offline apps are out of scope.
A personal notes app with notebooks, tags, rich text, attachments, full-text search, and a web-clipper bookmarklet, synced to a database.
- OCR search inside images and PDFs
- Mature native mobile apps and offline sync
- The polished web clipper with full-page rendering
- Document scanning and business-card features
Honestly, fewer people do every year — Evernote's decline shows how little moat a personal note store has; what remains is inertia, existing data, and the mobile apps, not a problem you can't solve yourself.
A prompt is the first move, not the whole game. Course 01 teaches you to take a prompt like this one to a shipped, working app — reviewing, correcting, and steering the agent the whole way.
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