Notes and a journal, with a way out.
A proper editor, colour-coded, and everything you write exportable from the first day.
What it does
Everything Notes gives you.
A real editor — formatting, structure, lists, not a plain-text box.
Eight colours and a filter, so a wall of notes has a shape.
A journal in its own view, apart from the shopping thoughts.
Prompts taken from your own week: “you were in Tasmania on Tuesday”.
Export every note, whenever you want it.
What it costs
Things you'd normally pay for. Here they're just included.
| Feature | Usually costs | In Nexus |
|---|---|---|
| Notes without device limits | Free tiers have tightened across the category | Free, export from day one |
| A journal with prompts | Commonly a paid tier | Free |
Only what you want
Use it as just a notebook.
Nexus asks which parts you want when you sign up, and you can change your mind whenever you like. Turn everything else off and this is the whole app — the menu, the home screen, the quick-add button. Nothing you did not ask for is on screen.
Turn something back on a year later and it is waiting, with whatever you had already put in it. Hiding is not deleting. Nothing else needs to be switched on.
If you want more
What Notes can do that a single-purpose app can’t.
The prompts come from the rest of your life the trip, the birthday, the first step. A standalone journal has nothing to draw on but a date.
A note can hang off anything an event, a property, a pet — instead of living in a folder you have to remember the name of.
What you get, and what it costs
Nexus is free. Not free-for-now, and not free-until-you-need-the-good-bit — nothing you already have is ever moved behind a payment. You can export everything you put in, from every module, whenever you like.
It is free for the businesses in the directory too. Nobody pays for a listing, and nobody buys your data.
Read the promiseA journal is only as good as what it can remember for you.