A small manifesto.

It's a notes app.
Just a notes app.

Stet exists because every notes app I tried wanted to be more than a notes app. A workspace. A second brain. An operating system for my thinking. I wanted somewhere to write the grocery list.

What it is

Stet is a place to put down a thought before you forget it. You open it, you type, the thought is saved. It syncs to your other devices so the grocery list you wrote on the laptop is on the phone by the time you reach the shop. It works offline; it catches up later.

What it isn't

It isn't trying to organise your life. It doesn't have folders inside folders, or backlinks, or daily notes, or templates, or an AI that wants to help. There's no streak. There's no inbox. Nothing nudges you.

Why so plain?

The honest answer: every feature is a small tax. It's a thing to learn, a thing to maintain, a thing that adds latency, a thing that breaks. A notes app that does one thing well is more useful than a notes app that does twelve things adequately. So Stet does one thing.

Who made this?

One person, mostly evenings and weekends. It's built on Cloudflare because that's what I know and because it keeps the cost of running it low enough that I can offer it for free while the user base is small.

The source is on GitHub. Bug reports and small feature suggestions are welcome there. Big feature suggestions will be politely declined — see "what it isn't."

Where it's going

Slowly. The aim is to keep Stet small enough that it stays fast, simple enough that it stays trustworthy, and cheap enough that it stays free. If those three things stop being true, the project has gone wrong.

— S.