Jon Soini
@soini.com
📍 Seattle, startup founder, indie iOS dev
📸 Building @memcam.bsky.social, the productivity camera I've always wanted
🗒️ Also building https://riftnotes.com
⌛️ Previously Cruise (self-driving), Mercedes-Benz R&D, T-Mo
📸 Building @memcam.bsky.social, the productivity camera I've always wanted
🗒️ Also building https://riftnotes.com
⌛️ Previously Cruise (self-driving), Mercedes-Benz R&D, T-Mo
Got two wonderful notes today from folks who bought RIFT Notes and let me tell you, getting positive feedback like that is rocket fuel.
If you have an app you like from an indie dev drop them a line, you’ll make their day.
Thank you to everyone who’s dropped a kind word over the last few months!
If you have an app you like from an indie dev drop them a line, you’ll make their day.
Thank you to everyone who’s dropped a kind word over the last few months!
April 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Got two wonderful notes today from folks who bought RIFT Notes and let me tell you, getting positive feedback like that is rocket fuel.
If you have an app you like from an indie dev drop them a line, you’ll make their day.
Thank you to everyone who’s dropped a kind word over the last few months!
If you have an app you like from an indie dev drop them a line, you’ll make their day.
Thank you to everyone who’s dropped a kind word over the last few months!
New theme is ready for RIFT Notes, if you need to do some macrodata processing on the go! #severance #indiedev #swift
RIFT is my nerdy retro iOS notes app with a few unique twists, free to use! (1-time purchase unlocks adv features, separate purchase for this theme).
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
RIFT is my nerdy retro iOS notes app with a few unique twists, free to use! (1-time purchase unlocks adv features, separate purchase for this theme).
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
April 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New theme is ready for RIFT Notes, if you need to do some macrodata processing on the go! #severance #indiedev #swift
RIFT is my nerdy retro iOS notes app with a few unique twists, free to use! (1-time purchase unlocks adv features, separate purchase for this theme).
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
RIFT is my nerdy retro iOS notes app with a few unique twists, free to use! (1-time purchase unlocks adv features, separate purchase for this theme).
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
Any fans of #MDR here? Should I release this theme for my notes app (riftnotes.com)? #severance #indiedev #swiftUI
This isn't a mockup, this is a finished theme for RIFT, I'm quite happy with how it turned out, it's got a few fun features, and uses one of the typefaces from the show.
This isn't a mockup, this is a finished theme for RIFT, I'm quite happy with how it turned out, it's got a few fun features, and uses one of the typefaces from the show.
March 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Any fans of #MDR here? Should I release this theme for my notes app (riftnotes.com)? #severance #indiedev #swiftUI
This isn't a mockup, this is a finished theme for RIFT, I'm quite happy with how it turned out, it's got a few fun features, and uses one of the typefaces from the show.
This isn't a mockup, this is a finished theme for RIFT, I'm quite happy with how it turned out, it's got a few fun features, and uses one of the typefaces from the show.
If you'd like to try out this latest version before it's live in the App Store here's an open TestFlight!
testflight.apple.com/join/hA4bBnBe
@johnvoorhees.macstories.net @viticci.macstories.net @gruber.foo @macsparky.bsky.social if ya wanna kick the tires on a new / 'different' notes app
testflight.apple.com/join/hA4bBnBe
@johnvoorhees.macstories.net @viticci.macstories.net @gruber.foo @macsparky.bsky.social if ya wanna kick the tires on a new / 'different' notes app
March 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you'd like to try out this latest version before it's live in the App Store here's an open TestFlight!
testflight.apple.com/join/hA4bBnBe
@johnvoorhees.macstories.net @viticci.macstories.net @gruber.foo @macsparky.bsky.social if ya wanna kick the tires on a new / 'different' notes app
testflight.apple.com/join/hA4bBnBe
@johnvoorhees.macstories.net @viticci.macstories.net @gruber.foo @macsparky.bsky.social if ya wanna kick the tires on a new / 'different' notes app
Latest beta for RIFT Notes is available! This one adds a few nice things:
- Expanding input editor
- Quick Bar, for pinning and accessing notes everywhere
- Links for URLs, Emails, Addresses and Phone #s work
- Initial Shortcuts support
- Show nearby notes
- Onboarding carousel
- Expanding input editor
- Quick Bar, for pinning and accessing notes everywhere
- Links for URLs, Emails, Addresses and Phone #s work
- Initial Shortcuts support
- Show nearby notes
- Onboarding carousel
March 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Latest beta for RIFT Notes is available! This one adds a few nice things:
- Expanding input editor
- Quick Bar, for pinning and accessing notes everywhere
- Links for URLs, Emails, Addresses and Phone #s work
- Initial Shortcuts support
- Show nearby notes
- Onboarding carousel
- Expanding input editor
- Quick Bar, for pinning and accessing notes everywhere
- Links for URLs, Emails, Addresses and Phone #s work
- Initial Shortcuts support
- Show nearby notes
- Onboarding carousel
Finally had some time to update RIFT Notes, next beta coming with:
- Quick Access Bar (pin notes and navigate to them from anywhere)
- "X marks the spot" (shows notes within 500m, quickly filter for them)
- Expanding editor returns!
- Tappable links for web URLs, addresses, emails, phone numbers
- Quick Access Bar (pin notes and navigate to them from anywhere)
- "X marks the spot" (shows notes within 500m, quickly filter for them)
- Expanding editor returns!
- Tappable links for web URLs, addresses, emails, phone numbers
March 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Finally had some time to update RIFT Notes, next beta coming with:
- Quick Access Bar (pin notes and navigate to them from anywhere)
- "X marks the spot" (shows notes within 500m, quickly filter for them)
- Expanding editor returns!
- Tappable links for web URLs, addresses, emails, phone numbers
- Quick Access Bar (pin notes and navigate to them from anywhere)
- "X marks the spot" (shows notes within 500m, quickly filter for them)
- Expanding editor returns!
- Tappable links for web URLs, addresses, emails, phone numbers
Raycast's clipboard history feature is so great. Not sure I'd want to use a computer without it, it's become so ingrained into my daily work.
Just started mapping my most-used Raycast commands to the hyper key (caps lock in my case), so now hyper-V brings it up.
Just started mapping my most-used Raycast commands to the hyper key (caps lock in my case), so now hyper-V brings it up.
March 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Raycast's clipboard history feature is so great. Not sure I'd want to use a computer without it, it's become so ingrained into my daily work.
Just started mapping my most-used Raycast commands to the hyper key (caps lock in my case), so now hyper-V brings it up.
Just started mapping my most-used Raycast commands to the hyper key (caps lock in my case), so now hyper-V brings it up.
Claude 3.7 feels like the real deal.
Gave it a (smallish) new feature in my SwiftUI notes app to build, the prompt was ~12 lines:
~30s of prompt-writing
~2 mins of agentic time, it wrote ~300 lines of #SwiftUI across 6 files
Then it built/worked without error, perfectly the first time. #iosdev
Gave it a (smallish) new feature in my SwiftUI notes app to build, the prompt was ~12 lines:
~30s of prompt-writing
~2 mins of agentic time, it wrote ~300 lines of #SwiftUI across 6 files
Then it built/worked without error, perfectly the first time. #iosdev
February 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I know I'm late to the game, I was recently looking to revamp/fix my research/capture/notes/reading system and started testing out #Zotero and wow is it great. Ticks all the boxes:
- Capture from anywhere
- Great cross-platform apps
- You 'own' your data
- Works on my e-ink boox tablet + ipad
- Capture from anywhere
- Great cross-platform apps
- You 'own' your data
- Works on my e-ink boox tablet + ipad
February 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I know I'm late to the game, I was recently looking to revamp/fix my research/capture/notes/reading system and started testing out #Zotero and wow is it great. Ticks all the boxes:
- Capture from anywhere
- Great cross-platform apps
- You 'own' your data
- Works on my e-ink boox tablet + ipad
- Capture from anywhere
- Great cross-platform apps
- You 'own' your data
- Works on my e-ink boox tablet + ipad
Any #Obsidian #ObsidianMD fans out there? RIFT Notes instantly syncs .md to your iCloud drive with front matter, tags and date-based filenames! Great for quickly capturing on-the-go. 1-way sync for now, 2-way sync soon.
Would love feedback for this!
Grab it for iPhone/iPad at riftnotes.com
Would love feedback for this!
Grab it for iPhone/iPad at riftnotes.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Any #Obsidian #ObsidianMD fans out there? RIFT Notes instantly syncs .md to your iCloud drive with front matter, tags and date-based filenames! Great for quickly capturing on-the-go. 1-way sync for now, 2-way sync soon.
Would love feedback for this!
Grab it for iPhone/iPad at riftnotes.com
Would love feedback for this!
Grab it for iPhone/iPad at riftnotes.com
Latest beta for riftnotes.com is up on TestFlight, and about to submit to the App Store. Lots of under-the-hood improvements to syncing and editing, but it also adds tagging a note by color (for free and powerpack customers), as well as filtering by that color. #indiedev #swiftUI #productivity
February 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Latest beta for riftnotes.com is up on TestFlight, and about to submit to the App Store. Lots of under-the-hood improvements to syncing and editing, but it also adds tagging a note by color (for free and powerpack customers), as well as filtering by that color. #indiedev #swiftUI #productivity
How about some light themes in the next release? The dark themes were a bit over-represented. #iosdev #indiedev #productivity #swiftui
You should download RIFT and give it a spin, and in a couple days you'll get these themes (if ya grab the powerpack upgrade). apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
You should download RIFT and give it a spin, and in a couple days you'll get these themes (if ya grab the powerpack upgrade). apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
February 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
How about some light themes in the next release? The dark themes were a bit over-represented. #iosdev #indiedev #productivity #swiftui
You should download RIFT and give it a spin, and in a couple days you'll get these themes (if ya grab the powerpack upgrade). apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
You should download RIFT and give it a spin, and in a couple days you'll get these themes (if ya grab the powerpack upgrade). apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
RIFT Notes is here! It's my highly-opinionated notes & markdown app, meant for quick message-like capture with a few unique features (& more to come!)
Available for iPhone & iPad, single one-time purchase for sync, mapping and the full theme engine. No subscriptions.
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
Available for iPhone & iPad, single one-time purchase for sync, mapping and the full theme engine. No subscriptions.
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
February 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
RIFT Notes is here! It's my highly-opinionated notes & markdown app, meant for quick message-like capture with a few unique features (& more to come!)
Available for iPhone & iPad, single one-time purchase for sync, mapping and the full theme engine. No subscriptions.
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
Available for iPhone & iPad, single one-time purchase for sync, mapping and the full theme engine. No subscriptions.
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...
Latest TestFlight beta is out for riftnotes.com! Mostly under the hood changes to overhaul and enhance the theme engine and make reliability improvements. We're getting closer to App Store readiness.
February 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Latest TestFlight beta is out for riftnotes.com! Mostly under the hood changes to overhaul and enhance the theme engine and make reliability improvements. We're getting closer to App Store readiness.
Working on RIFT Notes' improved theme engine this weekend, hoping to launch 1.0 of the app this week to the app store if all goes well.
First theme to take advantage of the newly improved theme capability... it has a nice subtle scanline animation too.
First theme to take advantage of the newly improved theme capability... it has a nice subtle scanline animation too.
February 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Working on RIFT Notes' improved theme engine this weekend, hoping to launch 1.0 of the app this week to the app store if all goes well.
First theme to take advantage of the newly improved theme capability... it has a nice subtle scanline animation too.
First theme to take advantage of the newly improved theme capability... it has a nice subtle scanline animation too.
The focus feature is in the TestFlight build now along with other smaller improvements! Grab TestFlight and then use this link to install it on your iPhone or iPad! (120 spots open):
testflight.apple.com/join/EdnsnP9F
testflight.apple.com/join/EdnsnP9F
January 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The focus feature is in the TestFlight build now along with other smaller improvements! Grab TestFlight and then use this link to install it on your iPhone or iPad! (120 spots open):
testflight.apple.com/join/EdnsnP9F
testflight.apple.com/join/EdnsnP9F
How about a focus mode for riftnotes.com? Coming to the next beta. #iosdev
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
How about a focus mode for riftnotes.com? Coming to the next beta. #iosdev
RIFT Notes is almost ready for its Mac public TestFlight, just a few more things to polish up and then test iCloud syncing, hide the titlebar, tweak map and theme settings views.
iOS, iPad & Mac versions all have markdown syntax highlighting thanks to @simonbs.dev 's Runestone library!
iOS, iPad & Mac versions all have markdown syntax highlighting thanks to @simonbs.dev 's Runestone library!
January 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
RIFT Notes is almost ready for its Mac public TestFlight, just a few more things to polish up and then test iCloud syncing, hide the titlebar, tweak map and theme settings views.
iOS, iPad & Mac versions all have markdown syntax highlighting thanks to @simonbs.dev 's Runestone library!
iOS, iPad & Mac versions all have markdown syntax highlighting thanks to @simonbs.dev 's Runestone library!
Didn't feel great all weekend, full of nyquil and sat in my chair with a blanket and my macbook and worked on a feature for riftnotes.com, added tagging, and I think it turned out well. Super quick and easy to view your notes by any tag and the search and map views also filter by the tag. #iosdev
January 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Didn't feel great all weekend, full of nyquil and sat in my chair with a blanket and my macbook and worked on a feature for riftnotes.com, added tagging, and I think it turned out well. Super quick and easy to view your notes by any tag and the search and map views also filter by the tag. #iosdev
Fun learning with my SwiftUI hobby app, drag ‘n drop on iPad just works without me doing anything, neat.
January 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Fun learning with my SwiftUI hobby app, drag ‘n drop on iPad just works without me doing anything, neat.
Alright, first batch is opening up for beta testing riftnotes.com, going to let 100 folks in this batch and watch feedback over the next 2-3 days, to make sure there are no show-stoppers. Will open it up quite a bit wider after that!
Grab the TestFlight beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/V81EAYh3
Grab the TestFlight beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/V81EAYh3
RIFT Notes
A notes app like no other. Always ready to capture. Privacy-first. Instant Search. Retro themes.
riftnotes.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Alright, first batch is opening up for beta testing riftnotes.com, going to let 100 folks in this batch and watch feedback over the next 2-3 days, to make sure there are no show-stoppers. Will open it up quite a bit wider after that!
Grab the TestFlight beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/V81EAYh3
Grab the TestFlight beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/V81EAYh3
We brought a big spread of smoked salmon to this New Year’s party and I’ll be damned if it will go to waste. I will eat this whole platter if it comes to it.
January 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
We brought a big spread of smoked salmon to this New Year’s party and I’ll be damned if it will go to waste. I will eat this whole platter if it comes to it.
Waiting for Testflight approval to release the public test build of RIFT Notes. www.riftnotes.com
It's an opinionated, fast, no-frills notes app for iOS with quick message-style entry, themes, instant grep-like search, map view for where a note started, markdown syntax, iCloud sync for .md files.
It's an opinionated, fast, no-frills notes app for iOS with quick message-style entry, themes, instant grep-like search, map view for where a note started, markdown syntax, iCloud sync for .md files.
December 31, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Waiting for Testflight approval to release the public test build of RIFT Notes. www.riftnotes.com
It's an opinionated, fast, no-frills notes app for iOS with quick message-style entry, themes, instant grep-like search, map view for where a note started, markdown syntax, iCloud sync for .md files.
It's an opinionated, fast, no-frills notes app for iOS with quick message-style entry, themes, instant grep-like search, map view for where a note started, markdown syntax, iCloud sync for .md files.
If you told me last year that two of the four apps on my dock would be my own I’d have said you were crazy. (And yes I’m biased, but they’re genuinely useful many times/day, they’re the productivity apps I’ve wanted to exist but didn’t)
Now to get the website + TestFlight going. #SwiftUI #IndieDev
Now to get the website + TestFlight going. #SwiftUI #IndieDev
December 29, 2024 at 10:07 PM