Making a note editor accessible is harder than it looks. A lot harder.
We audited Snownotes for real accessibility gaps, not checklist points. Here is what a rich note editor fights you on, and why "usable" matters more than "passes".
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Notes on what we're building.
An English question about a Swedish note
Snownotes has two rules for which language the AI answers in. They look like they should be one rule, and merging them breaks something either way.
The rules the model never sees you write
Ask a model to proofread a paragraph and it may quietly tidy the spacing inside your formula until it stops working. Here is what every AI request in Snownotes carries to stop that.
Why we didn't reach for CRDTs
Snownotes kept warning people about conflicts that had not happened. The well-known fix is a CRDT. We fixed our own bookkeeping instead.
Nothing changes until you say so
How AI editing works in Snownotes - the change is marked up inside your note, and your text isn't overwritten until you accept it.
The bug that only happened in production
Our Mac app couldn't reach a model running on the same machine, while Chrome could. Finding out why took twenty minutes with a table, and fixing it meant leaving the browser engine behind.
We're live! Our closed beta has officially started
A small group of early users is putting Snownotes through real work while we fix what they find.
Hello! Welcome to Snownotes
A fast, collaborative, AI-native note editor, made for capturing ideas, keeping them organized, and finding them again.