Duck Notes

There are many ways to take notes online: Microsoft’s OneNote, Notion, and plenty more. But these apps have become bloated with features and difficult to use.

Duck Notes is a fast and easy way to take notes, and writing them is as easy as a couple of clicks.

Your notes are organised into Logbooks, and you can create as many of them as you want. Below is a screenshot of mine, in case you want some inspiration on what kind of Logbooks you can create:

On Duck Notes, there’s two types of notes you can take: Logs and Scribbles.

Logs can’t be changed once you’ve made them. These are perfect for notes you don’t want to change, such as diary entries or workout notes.

Scribbles can be changed as many times as you want. For notes that are rough “scribbles” which you may want to edit later, Scribbles are perfect.

Your notes are shown in chronological order, with the most recent ones at the top.

Templates

If you want to write more structured notes, you can edit a Logbook’s template. So when you go to create a new note, there’s already something there for you to start from.

I use this feature for logging my gym workouts. Each time I start a new gym session, I don’t have to write out the workouts I’m going to do – I can just fill them out as I go along.

Give it a try

Try it out for free by going to duck-notes.com or clicking the button below:

Below is a video demo of me using Duck Notes:

What gave you the idea to make it?

Whilst I was making my university dissertation project, For the Facts, I was making notes on what I was doing and why, so I could write them up later on.

I did this in a Word document, with each bullet point under a heading of the day and month. I also put accompanying screenshots into the Word document.

This was a solution that worked quite well, but with one problem: I had to edit the Word document, which would take a long time to load on the web version, and since there were hundreds of pages, it could be quite slow at times when I saved it.

Is it free?

Yes, you can make as many logs and Logbooks as you like for free.

Why did you call it Duck Notes?

One bit of programming advice that’s commonly given to programmers is if you’re not sure how to fix a problem, talk through it to an inanimate object, like a rubber duck.