Fieldnote
Calm inbox for Fieldnote
Rebuilding a note-taking app's inbox so it stops asking for attention.
2025
Product design

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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