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Introducing Ivy Notes

Ivy Notes is a calm workspace for planning, notes, focus sessions, and resume building across Apple platforms.

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Ivy Notes is now live on the App Store.

I built it as a calm workspace for students and young professionals who need a few tools to work together well: planning, note-taking, focus sessions, and resume building. Instead of spreading those tasks across several different apps, I wanted one place that feels organized, quiet, and useful.

At the center of Ivy Notes is clarity. You can plan your day and week, write notes in Markdown, run Pomodoro-style focus sessions, and build a polished resume with structured sections and export-ready templates. The app also includes weekly insights, theme customization, and support for English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

What matters most to me is that it stays practical. Notes can be organized and searched. Focus sessions can be linked to tasks. Resume editing is structured enough to be useful, but still fast to update. The whole product is meant to reduce friction instead of adding more process.

Ivy Notes is also privacy-first by design. Data stays local by default, iCloud sync is optional, and there are no ads, analytics, or personal data selling. That part is important to me. Productivity apps should help you think more clearly, not extract more from you.

If you want a cleaner workspace for study and personal organization across Apple platforms, Ivy Notes is now available on the App Store.