Notey

Notey was born out of dissatisfaction with other collaborative note apps. Software like SimpleNote and Notes.app on iOS offers similar functionality, but the apps I'd used had quirks or bugs or weird design choices that made them a bad fit. I also wanted to keep this information private, so — like the other apps here — Notey is self-hosted.

It supports rich text formatting. Items in todo lists have checkboxes that can be ticked, and, like Notes.app on iOS, checked-off items automatically move to the bottom of the list.

The real-time connection between users is handled by ActionCable, the Rails-specific implementation of websockets.