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Nubnote

by Nicholas Palmer

A notes app that files each thought into a category and gives it a title, so you can find it again.

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Nubnote is a notes app with one clever habit: you type or speak a thought, and it files the note into a category such as Ideas, To buy or Food, gives it a title and groups related notes. That sorting is the reason to pick it over the notes app already on the phone, and right now the screenshots do not say it.

All six frames are plain screen captures with the status bar left in, on the app's own near black theme, and none of the first five carries a caption. Frame one is the main list: sample notes about a lakeside cabin, a train time, a tomato sauce and a lemon ricotta pasta, each with a small Travel or Food label under it. Those labels are the sorting at work, but nothing tells a shopper that the app put them there. The only headline in the set, "It comes back when it matters.", sits on the sixth and last frame, an onboarding screen for time and place reminders, where the fewest shoppers get to.

On localization, we looked the app up in the US, DE, JP, ES, FR, IT, PT, TR and SA storefronts. It is listed in four of them, the US, Japan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, with the same English first screenshot in all four, and the listing declares English only. So for now the question is the screenshots themselves, not translation.

The one fix that matters: caption the first frame with the promise your own description already makes in three words, "It sorts itself", over the list with its Travel and Food labels. Apple allows ten screenshots, so the reminder screen can also move up and give its headline a slot people actually see.

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