Meditating After Quitting His Job Led to This App Idea

Can you share the journey of creating Life Note AI and what inspired you to develop an AI-powered note-taking app? What sets it apart in the crowded productivity app market?

Life Note came to me during meditation the day after I quit my job. After a decade of practicing meditation and working in tech, I noticed we're obsessed with organizing external data to squeeze out more productivity. But real clarity comes from within.

I'm building Life Note to help people connect with themselves, become more self-aware, and find mental clarity. It's not about competing in the productivity space—it's about mastering inner productivity.

The name "Life Note" suggests a strong connection to customers' daily lives. How did you approach the technology behind designing an AI that could effectively understand and utilize well-known personalities to motivate people on their life journeys?

It all comes down to trial, error, and lived experience. We read books to learn from others and avoid their mistakes—so why not make that process more personal and intuitive? A book can't always give you what you need at the moment, but journaling can deliver timely, timeless insights.

The tech evolved by working closely with users, getting feedback, and constantly refining responses to make them genuinely valuable. Lots of manual testing, lots of iteration—until it feels like real wisdom when you need it most. There's still a lot of work to be done to make the responses more motivational and useful for people.

Life Note AI offers smart suggestions and context-aware reminders. Can you describe a fun or challenging moment you encountered while developing these features?

Building AI is like playing with chaos—it's unpredictable by nature. The fun part? When the AI delivers a response so spot-on, it feels like it knows your soul.

The challenge? When that same AI suddenly spits out something so bad, you feel like it just betrayed you, like it's pulling a prank on you. Keeps you on your toes, but that's what makes it exciting.

Do you plan to collaborate or partner with inspirational celebrities or motivational personalities who are alive?

No plans but I have thought of possible ways of doing this. It's not the short-term focus but if Life Note gets more users this will be worth considering!

How are you approaching adapting Life Note to cater to various ethnic backgrounds, considering the different aspects of cultures? 

By focusing on what unites us, not what divides us. I think it was Brian Chesky from Airbnb who said, "People are more alike than you think. Appreciate the differences, but design for the similarities." 

Given the growing adoption of AI today, and not everyone is on board, what is your view on AI and how we integrate it into our daily lives?

Embrace it and make it your priority to use it to strengthen your creativity and your core values. Use the tools ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity to make you more productive, try new ai tools like Life Note and have fun.

Ignore the media hype and dystopian fear-mongering—this is just the beginning of shared intelligence, like when we first discovered electricity. The real power lies in how we choose to use it.

Privacy is a hot topic in AI. How do you balance your app's features with protecting user data? Were there any surprising hurdles you had to overcome?

Right now we use industry-standard encryption to protect user data but I'm in search of better ways to protect privacy while not sacrificing users' experience.

The hurdle lies in your communication with AI models, it is nothing surprising, just something to design in your architecture.

Have any customers shared unexpected or creative ways of using LifeNote AI that you didn't anticipate? What's the most memorable feedback you've received?

Many people love journaling with people I'm not familiar with before. Carl Jung is super popular for people to do shadow work with, and people love Jay Shetty and Eckhart Tolle as their spiritual guidance. Some people are discussing music and investing with their mentors, all sorts of things!

Looking ahead, what's your vision for Life Note AI? Can you give us a sneak peek at any exciting features or updates in the pipeline?

I want Life Note to be the most intimate and wise companion for future generations. Forget AI girlfriends or AI friends—life is richer when we build emotional connections with something that helps guide us toward the best decisions, drawing from the wisdom of the greatest minds in history.

The exciting part is the upcoming mobile version, which is a more interactive, perplexity-like experience. I want journaling to be fun and rewarding, like meditation—something you can always rely on. In the past, journaling was just about recording life events. I want to shift the focus to gaining deep self-knowledge and happiness.

Thank you for providing insight into Life Note. How can anyone interested in learning more about the app do so?

Try it at mylifenote.ai or shoot me a message at [email protected]