Claude Bezeaud

Building SteelNote · iOS indie dev 🛠️
Apple Notes-like. Markdown files.
Nothing else.
Sharing the process, the wins, and the failures.

[Claude Bezeaud @CEBEDEV]

Mental reality is the real workload, projected into an emotionally acceptable perspective.

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With SteelNote customize the editor according to your preferences

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@iMathTechs Dans la gamme iPhone 17 privilégiez les modèles avec 12 GO pour éviter les déconvenues avec Apple Intelligence

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https://t.co/5ABWsw7odM

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@fortelabs Ok but wich one ?

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Apple just gave Markdown a system type in the 27 betas:
net.daringfireball.markdown, conforming to public.utf8-plain-text.
(It's @gruber's own UTI, now official.)

That's the whole premise of SteelNote: your notes are real Markdown files you own, not rows in a database. Nice to see the platform make it official.

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@iMathTechs On dirait un chemin de croix 😊

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@Eloise1041955 La question est où se trouve vos cœur de cible? Peu importe le réseau

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A design choice in SteelNote I keep coming back to:

Every note is a plain Markdown file you own whether you write it or import it (Evernote, Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Word). It lives in Files, in iCloud Drive, openable in any editor. Nothing trapped in a proprietary database.

The part I didn't expect to love: because the data is open and indexed, the App Intents get genuinely useful. Search Notes, Get Note Content, Create Note, Add to Note they read and write your real files, so any note flows straight into a Shortcut or a Siri request.

Open files aren't the price you pay for automation. They're what makes it trustworthy: what a Shortcut reads and writes is the exact same .md you'd open in Files.

Yours, and fully scriptable.

#buildinpublic #Shortcuts #AppIntents

TestFlight
https://t.co/wxzxxKpPPY

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@AnxiousHolly 15 Pro Max

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Maintenant, avant de recruter quelqu'un, je raisonne en forfait Claude Max à 200 dollars par mois.

Je compare l'output et la productivité que ce recrutement va m'apporter à ce que Claude me sort déjà. Et dans la majorité des cas, c'est vite vu.

Un employé à 2000 dollars par mois, il pose des arrêts maladie, il bosse pas les jours fériés, et il râle si tu lui files trop de taf. Aujourd'hui, l'employé moyen est en compétition directe avec l'IA sur la valeur qu'il apporte à un business. Et 80% ne gagnent pas cette compétition.

[Claude Bezeaud @CEBEDEV]

A design choice in SteelNote I keep coming back to:

Every note is a plain Markdown file you own whether you write it or import it (Evernote, Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Word). It lives in Files, in iCloud Drive, openable in any editor. Nothing trapped in a proprietary database.

The part I didn't expect to love: because the data is open and indexed, the App Intents get genuinely useful. Search Notes, Get Note Content, Create Note, Add to Note they read and write your real files, so any note flows straight into a Shortcut or a Siri request.

Open files aren't the price you pay for automation. They're what makes it trustworthy: what a Shortcut reads and writes is the exact same .md you'd open in Files.

Yours, and fully scriptable.

#buildinpublic #Shortcuts #AppIntents

TestFlight
https://t.co/wxzxxKpPPY

[Claude Bezeaud @CEBEDEV]

🛠️ building in public
The next SteelNote TestFlight adds a Links view.

Every link you've written across your notes collected and grouped by type: 🎬 videos, 📚 wikis, ✉️ mail, 🌐 sites plus your internal [[note links]].

Your links stop being text buried in a doc and become a place you browse.

Why it fits SteelNote: your notes are plain Markdown files you own.

Nothing's locked in we just surface what's already there, from a new angle.

Local-first · iPhone/iPad/Mac · iCloud sync. TestFlight soon reply if you want in 👇

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@prestonattebery Still working on SteelNote https://t.co/8arCtVRCb6

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@Itsbrutox Steelnote https://t.co/8arCtVRCb6

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@Eloise1041955 L’accès aux fichiers enregistrés en Markdown et accessibles avec n’importe quel éditeur de texte. C’est l’utilisateur qui possède ses notes pas l’application. C’est le principe d’Obsidian mais à partir d’une application iOS native donc accessible au intents

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SteelNote for macOS 0.19.1 is avalaible on TesFlight with Fix :

Folders and tags in the sidebar now open their notes, previously clicking them did nothing and showed "Select a Folder".

Please test opening several folders and tags.

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@iMathTechs Comment résister ?

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SteelNote V.0.18.0 What's new in this build

Thanks for testing! Highlights:

Tasks every unchecked checkbox (- [ ]) from all your notes in one
place. Tick to complete (it writes back to the source note); today's
completed ones land in "Done today".

Links all your [[wikilinks]] gathered, with the source note + date.
Tap to open the note.

Quick Actions long-press the app icon: Scan, New Note, Photo, Search.
Scan + OCR — scan a document into a searchable PDF (on-device text
recognition).

Photo at cursor snap a photo from the editor, inserted right where
the cursor is.

Web search an empty search offers to search the web (DuckDuckGo).

Section links [[#Heading]] to jump within a note, plus a table of
contents.

Faster first launch + iCloud sync fixes.

Please focus on:

• Ticking tasks from "Tasks" — does the source note update correctly?
• Sync across your devices (create/edit on one, check the other).
• Anything slow, stuck, or visually off.

Even a one-line report helps a lot. Thanks!

[Claude Bezeaud @CEBEDEV]

Claude Code, et de loin. Je suis développeur indépendant et je l'utilise comme un relecteur « contradicteur » : je le braque sur une spécification ou un composant critique et je lui demande de l'attaquer (en cherchant les cas limites ou les hypothèses erronées) plutôt que de simplement le valider. Il a repéré des problèmes qui avaient échappé à mes propres tests.

Mention spéciale : la possibilité de diriger directement un LLM vers un dossier contenant de simples notes au format .md — aucun connecteur n'est requis, il lit directement les fichiers. C'est d'ailleurs ce qui explique pourquoi je suis un peu obsédé, ces derniers temps, par l'idée de conserver mes notes sous forme de fichiers ouverts.