This message is not a feature request or a bug report — it’s a call for a careful review of Noteey.

Hi Alex,
I first discovered Noteey about a year ago, and I’ve been using it again for the past month. A year ago, I installed it but stopped using it because it was full of bugs at the time.

As a Persian speaker — and Persian is a right-to-left language — my very first impression with Noteey was disappointing. I’m a visual thinker, and I’ve tested many “second brain” tools before: Obsidian, Heptabase, Milanote, Scrintal, Freeform, and Miro.

Miro, of course, is an incredibly powerful tool — but it’s terrible for use as a second brain. Let me explain why: linking between boards is so weak that it becomes meaningless. When you link an item from one board to another, it reloads the entire Miro page in a new tab. Maybe tolerable once, but if you do this several times, you’ll quickly hate the experience.
Still, Miro has its fans because it fills a unique gap that no other tool does — it’s unmatched for collaborative online whiteboarding. It’s smooth, fast, and feels like entering a different world. Everything works seamlessly and reliably.

Obsidian, on the other hand, isn’t visual by nature, but with plugins like Excalidraw it can be made more visual — though the connection between text and visuals never feels natural.
Yet despite that, Obsidian remains an extremely powerful, fast, and minimal tool. Working with it is pure joy because it’s reliable and stable — every update is tested and bug-free. Fewer features, but high-quality ones — exactly like what the Japanese do with Toyota: minimal, but masterfully engineered.

Then there’s Heptabase — it takes Obsidian a step further. You can think deeper with it. The concepts of boards and cards are extremely useful, the linking system is powerful, and working with PDFs feels fantastic. Heptabase fills many of the gaps that Obsidian leaves for visual thinkers.
Scrintal tried to compete but failed, because its goals are different — it’s not really suited for a second brain. The same goes for Freeform and others.

Now, where does Noteey stand?
Noteey came with the goal of bridging the gap between Miro, Heptabase, and Obsidian — but unfortunately, it hasn’t succeeded in any of these areas. Anyone who uses Noteey for a few days quickly realizes it’s becoming more of a Shiny Tool — full of flash and polish — rather than a powerful, reliable tool.

What we need is not a luxury app made to show off, but a practical tool that becomes part of our lives.
Noteey keeps adding fancy new options in every update, while basic features are still full of bugs.

If you want to retain users like me — and many others — please, for at least six months, stop adding new features and instead focus on stabilizing the core of Noteey: its speed, reliability, and essential functions.
We don’t need dozens of features we’ll never use — like on new smartphones. What we need are solid, daily-use tools like Backlink View or Graph View, as in Obsidian, which are vital for link management.

Please don’t turn Noteey into a Shiny Tool. That path will destroy it.
I truly love Noteey and your team — that’s why I’m writing this message today. It’s a warning: shift from the Swiss Army Knife approach to the Workhorse Tool mindset.

For at least six months, please focus on bug fixes and hotfixes instead of new updates. You’ll definitely see the results. I’m ready to report every bug and need I encounter — but only if you change your approach.
We need a useful tool, because history shows: “All-in-one tools” always fail in the end.