Team Onuri & Stillkeep apps. Stillkeep: Journal & Diary, Onuri: Notes & Life Tracker

Onuri has released version 2 of its private iOS notes and life-tracking app. The update introduces new home-screen filters that allow users to narrow entries by people, places, dates, times and topics, alongside a new dark mode. Onuri Premium now includes five new colour themes, matching app icons, lightweight to-do functionality and expanded insights into writing patterns and recurring themes. Version 2 also includes improvements to note parsing, related entries, iCloud reliability, accessibility and localization across English, Japanese and Korean. Onuri v2 is available on the App Store: Download Onuri .

Published on September 17, 2026 We’re breaking down the design and engineering behind Onuri and Stillkeep over on r/SideProject. If you want to check out the UI videos, see our roadmaps, or get involved, view the active launch threads here: Onuri Thread: I built a notes app where your words connect themselves Stillkeep Thread: I built an iOS app to turn photos into organised memories Check out the new web homes at onuri.app and stillkeep.app !

Website Update · September 16, 2026 The Onuri website was completed on September 16, 2026, with the addition of three final landing pages. The new pages cover: Notepad — onuri.app/notepad.html Notes — onuri.app/notes.html Notebook — onuri.app/notebook.html The pages document three areas of Onuri's note-taking functionality, covering quick capture, individual notes and accumulated personal writing. Website: onuri.app

Website Update · September 16, 2026 The Stillkeep website was completed on September 16, 2026, with the addition of four final landing pages. The new pages cover: Journal — stillkeep.app/journal.html Diary — stillkeep.app/diary.html Photos — stillkeep.app/photos.html Gallery — stillkeep.app/gallery.html The pages document four areas of Stillkeep's journal and diary functionality, covering written entries, photos and personal galleries. Website: stillkeep.app

Notepad, Notes or Notebook? Three Ways We Capture What Matters We write things down for different reasons. Sometimes it is a thought we need to capture before it disappears. Sometimes it is information we know we will need later. And sometimes writing gradually becomes something larger: a record of ideas, people, places, plans and everyday life. Notepad, notes and notebook sound like three ways of describing essentially the same thing. But each word reflects a slightly different relationship with writing — and with what happens after something has been written down. A notepad is about speed A notepad has one fundamental job: be there when you need to write. You might use it for an idea, a name, something somebody recommended, a sentence you do not want to forget, or a thought that has not yet become anything more substantial. The best notepad does not make you decide where something belongs before you can write it. There should b...

Journal, Diary, Photos or Gallery? Four Ways We Try to Remember a Life There are more ways to record a life than ever before. We take photographs constantly, write notes to ourselves, keep diaries, save screenshots, create albums, and scroll backwards through years of images looking for something we vaguely remember. Yet the tools we use tend to separate these things. Photos live in one place. Writing lives somewhere else. A diary becomes a chronological stream, while a gallery becomes a collection of images without much explanation of why they mattered. Perhaps the problem is not that we need another way to store things. It is that the different ways we remember — through words, pictures, stories and periods of our lives — belong together. A journal is about what was worth keeping The word journal can suggest a daily practice: sit down, open a page and write about the day. But a journal does not have to become another habit to maintain. ...