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Watch recordings arrived on the phone as 28-byte header-only m4a files (record() reported success but no audio was ever captured). Activate the audio session via watchOS's async activate(options:), drop the .spokenAudio mode experiment, match the phone recorder's proven AAC settings (44.1 kHz / 48 kbps), and surface silent failures: an AVAudioRecorderDelegate catches encode errors mid-take, and a stop-time guard detects a dead header-only file, deletes it, and shows the failure on the watch instead of shipping an unplayable note to the phone. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014esDWi42URLEC6Cj17hGQ3
Contextful
Context-aware note taking for iOS and macOS. Product name Contextful; project working name "Notes", bundle id dev.rzen.indie.Notes.
The idea: every note silently captures the context it was taken in — where you were, what time it was — and that context is used to recall notes later. Walk back into the coffee shop and the note with the barista's name bubbles to the top of the list.
Key features
- Quick text notes — jot something down in two taps; first line doubles as the title
- Voice notes — record a memo (iPhone, Mac, or Apple Watch); the audio is kept and transcribed on-device afterwards, with a per-note "re-transcribe in another language" override and a settings screen to enable transcription languages
- Apple Watch capture — a watch-face complication opens a one-button recorder; the recording transfers to your iPhone over WatchConnectivity, which ingests and transcribes it (no iCloud on the watch)
- Automatic context capture — location, place name (reverse-geocoded), time zone, and device are stamped onto every note, best-effort and privacy-friendly (all data stays in your iCloud)
- "Right here, right now" recall — a ranked shelf of notes whose capture context matches your current place and time, above the regular newest-first list
- Tags — manual organization alongside the automatic context; browse notes by tag
- Search — full-text over note text, tags, and captured place names
- iCloud sync — notes live as JSON files in your iCloud Drive (visible in Files.app) and sync across iPhone and Mac; the local database is just a rebuildable cache
- iOS + macOS + watchOS — same app and data across iPhone and Mac, with an Apple Watch companion for voice capture
- Backups — one-tap local backup and restore of all notes (IndieBackup); backup files can be shared and imported across devices
- About screen — version info, changelog, and license in Settings (iOS) and the About window (macOS) via IndieAbout
Planned: richer context signals, smarter ranking.
Architecture
- SwiftUI, iOS 26+ / macOS 26+, Swift 6 strict concurrency, XcodeGen (
xcodegen generate) - Storage per the icloud-sync-engine pattern: iCloud Drive JSON documents are the sole source of truth (via the IndieSync package); a SwiftData cache is populated exclusively by metadata-observer events and can be wiped/rebuilt at any time
- Context capture in
Services/ContextService.swift(CoreLocation + MapKit reverse geocoding); ranking inServices/Relevance.swift
Build
xcodegen generate
xcodebuild build -project Notes.xcodeproj -scheme Notes \
-destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17 Pro'
Requires APPLE_TEAM_ID in the environment for code signing.