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Fieldnote

Calm inbox for Fieldnote

Rebuilding a note-taking app's inbox so it stops asking for attention.

2025

Product design

Calm inbox for Fieldnote

Fieldnote’s inbox was a to-do list pretending to be a home screen. Every new note arrived with a badge, a count and a nudge.

We removed the counts, grouped what arrived by day and gave every group an end. People opened the app less often and wrote more when they did.

Result: weekly active writers up 14 percent, support tickets about missing notes down by half, and a quieter app store reviews page.

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