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4 years ago

A lightweight, mobile app that allows you to work with the same notes across your phone and desktop, allowing you to sync them all to your Google Drive account.

223

3 years ago

A new way to conduct meetings that lets everyone take notes, share them instantly and even collaborate with others.

174

5 years ago

Productivity tool to help doctors manage their notes and data. Ideal for doctors in a remote location.

172

5 years ago

The startup is building a platform to record and store every single note an employee takes.

171

5 years ago

A startup that aims to improve the quality of documents that doctors write for patients. The startup wants to make it easier for doctors to collaborate on and share their notes, with a mobile app for sharing patient information and an instant messaging channel for doctors to communicate with each other.

168

5 years ago

Note: This list is not comprehensive, and does not include all the companies that applied to YC in 2017.

162

5 years ago

A startup that sells laser-cut, customizable paper for planners, journals, planners, notebooks, and more

159

5 years ago

A software company that makes it easier to train learning machines. The company is building an “AI-powered note taking” system for students.

157

5 years ago

A tool for organizing and sharing notes, charts and graphs

156

5 years ago

A tool to help you make music from a series of notes without actually playing them.

156

5 years ago

a mobile tool for translating text and voice notes.

156

5 years ago

A startup that sells cases that attach to iPads, allowing users to take notes using a stylus and take pictures right from the iPad.

148

3 years ago

A new way of doing meetings, focusing on shared documents and less on notes and meeting notes.

148

5 years ago

Notebook, an online service for learning and notes, has a self-serve platform, through which users can send handwritten notes to their favorite teachers for grading.

145

5 years ago

A platform for teachers and students to interact that can be used to share notes, assignments, and homework via a visual interface. They are developing a way for teachers to grade students' work in real time, as well as a way for students to get feedback from teachers and classmates in real time.

138

5 years ago

This startup sells an Android app that lets you quickly record notes/talks about an item you are selling on eBay. The startup is also building out a platform for selling on eBay.

138

5 years ago

NOTE: These projects are not ranked in order of how likely they are to succeed.

136

5 years ago

Unigene is a platform that lets patients upload and share notes with their doctors to help them better treat them.

136

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to get the most out of their devices. They want to help people find the apps and tools they need to get work done. Side Note: That’s what we call an original idea.

136

5 years ago

A collaboration and messaging app for the music industry. The startup has built a service where musicians can share edits and production notes with each other.

133

5 years ago

A digital version of the notebook and sketchbook you’d use to take your drawing class. The startup wants to bring digital sketching to the iPad, Android tablets, and other mobile devices.

132

5 years ago

A note-taking app that has a tab for the pen you’re using, making it easier to switch from pen to pen, and to save lists and sticky notes.

131

5 years ago

A tool that helps social workers create and share custom case notes with other social workers.

129

5 years ago

An online community for people to share stories, notes, and events.

128

5 years ago

A digital alternative for physical notes and calendars. The startup says it’s a better way to organize and share calendars with family and friends. They charge $5 per month for a calendar with unlimited notes.

122

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform to help students take notes during lectures. Gogolink is launching a mobile app to help students take notes during lectures, and then share them afterwards.

122

5 years ago

This is a startup that makes it easier for users to read and write in French, Italian, and Spanish. Another benefit is that they can take notes in those languages and they can share those notes with others who speak those languages.

120

5 years ago

A video-chat-like app for internal meetings, which allows for video and chats but also an internal forum where employees can write notes and comments.

120

3 years ago

A Chrome extension that helps you make and save notes.

120

3 years ago

Idease a mobile-first platform for taking notes and Annotate using the camera and keyboard on a smartphone.

118

3 years ago

A startup that allows you to share your notes with family members and friends.

117

2 years ago

A company that aims to help Chinese retailers deliver certain goods to their customers via e-commerce, such as appliances and furniture. The company’s founder recently noted that the company is already working with “100,000 sellers.”

115

5 years ago

(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)

114

5 years ago

A tool that lets users convert any type of PDF into a markdown file for use with Notability, an iPad note-taking app.

113

5 years ago

A B2B company working on a daily planner for teams working remotely that will allow them to synchronize their plans, tasks, and notes.

112

4 years ago

A digital notebook app that lets you create and edit text, images, video, and sketches. It uses AI to help you produce better content.

108

3 years ago

A “collaborative note-taking app that helps you and your team stay on the same page”.

105

5 years ago

A smartphone app that helps people take better notes and organize their knowledge about their favorite movies, TV shows, books, and more.

104

5 years ago

A startup that allows you to capture and share your notes and thoughts on the web.

103

4 years ago

Written by a former Google employee, it’s a platform that helps you create and share digital notes.

97

5 years ago

A digital health platform that allows users to access their medical records, including a doctor’s notes and lab results, with or without a doctor's signature. Users can manage all of their medications from a single integrated platform. The company has raised $12 million.

95

3 years ago

A tool for sharing notes and files among teams. Docs is currently in a closed beta but has a lot of traction.

92

4 years ago

The startup founded by a former General Electric executive, wants to use AI and a custom-designed nanotechnology solution to make drinking water taste better.

91

4 years ago

A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.

91

4 years ago

This company allows users to take notes on the go using their smartphone.

87

3 years ago

An online platform for managing and creating personal notes on all your devices, with notifications and reminders

86

3 years ago

A digital whiteboard for in-person meetings, allowing people to draw on their mobile phones to create drawings and notes.

83

4 years ago

A digital platform to track the condition of your car’s parts. It’s essentially a modern version of a mechanic’s notebook.

82

4 years ago

A startup that makes lightweight, ultra-thin notebook computers. In the past couple of years, the company has sold 150,000 of its computers to companies in the enterprise, education, and healthcare industries.

82

4 years ago

SaaS company that helps employees stay organized with choices like task-lists, notes, and to-do lists.

82

3 years ago

A tool to help you save, manage, and organize all of your tasks, notes, and things you want to do. It’s like a to-do list that can be viewed as a calendar or spreadsheet and helps you keep track of all of your projects.

82

4 years ago

The company wants to create a crowdsourced set of office supplies, including note paper, highlighters, a notepad, a pens, a pen holder, a pencil sharpener, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a red pen, a whiteboard marker, a dry erase marker, a mini eraser, a phone stand, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business

81

3 years ago

A startup that allows teachers to create access points for students to see their notes and access other content.

81

4 years ago

This is a way for people to show up at an event (like a conference) and automatically get access to the speaker’s slides and notes.

80

3 years ago

A startup taking the existing Evernote API and creating a service that lets people share notes in other apps.

78

4 years ago

Connects with a user’s Evernote account to create a pivot table, with a map or a list.

77

4 years ago

As of November 2017, Tastebuds was a top-2 startup in the food & beverage category on AngelList. Tastebuds is building a way to share tasting notes, recommendations, and experiences in a social network for restaurants.

77

4 years ago

Notememe is a tool for public speaking that is designed to help you remember what you talked about. It’s a visual, like a PowerPoint, with the slides you’ve spoken on organized into the order you’ve spoken.

75

4 years ago

“Bots that share handwritten notes.”

75

4 years ago

A company that lets you tag the notes you take on your computer by voice. It’s a product of a collaboration between the founders of the video editing app Snagit and the note-taking app Evernote.

75

4 years ago

A start-up that is building an app that enables people to share their needs for local services with local businesses. Users can drop a quick note on the app about their services-related needs, and the app uses the data to create a personalized job board.

73

4 years ago

This system for creating “enterprise documentation” is meant to help companies take notes and stay organized by creating a single repository for all their information. The startup is also building a “mock” product called “Docs.io” that allows anyone to create and organize documentation all in one place.

73

3 years ago

A kind of fridge designed to take notes and leave them for the future.

73

4 years ago

App that builds on the long-established tradition of the “goodbye” note. The startup wants to help you say goodbye to people over email or text message with a personalized note.

71

4 years ago

A platform that helps organizations plan, take, and share notes on a computer running Linux. Comes with a desktop app and mobile app so you can do all your note-taking on the go.

70

4 years ago

Evernote says it is building “a new type of tool” that lets you automate tasks like tracking donations, managing media, and keeping track of important people.

70

3 years ago

A startup that helps women manage their periods, including tracking symptoms, taking notes, and creating a shopping list.

70

3 years ago

A startup for medical transcriptionists to record transcribed notes and track key points on a whiteboard. The startup is developing a platform that would allow anyone to make a transcription as easily as they would record a video and post it online.

70

4 years ago

A digital prescription for a doctor’s handwritten notes, meant to make the experience more efficient and streamlined.

69

4 years ago

A way to help people take notes digitally, with a note taking app that also offers pro-level drawing tools.

68

3 years ago

A mobile app that enables people to share their kid’s homework with their parents, providing a virtual notebook.

68

2 years ago

A tool for sharing notes on the fly, like a Slack for text.

68

4 years ago

A tool for handling the note-taking process in meetings. The note-taking app helps teams organize meetings, store meeting notes, and store the notes in a database.

67

3 years ago

A startup that provides access to the members of the “military.com” app. Military.com is a security app that allows users to take screenshots and take notes with a custom keyboard.

67

4 years ago

An iOS app by the founders of the popular Evernote business note-taking app that allows users to write and save notes on their phones.

66

3 years ago

A platform for students to organize and manage their notes, but also for teachers to assign and organize their notes for their students.

66

3 years ago

A group chat app for real estate agents that allows them to quickly chat in groups about listings, compare notes on listings, and even set up meetings in the same app.

65

4 years ago

ChatOMatic is building a chatbot for Slack channels that can automatically write status updates, notes, and reminders for users.

64

4 years ago

A mobile app that lets you take notes on your iPhone and then pull them up on your computer and vice versa.

64

3 years ago

A tool that helps you manage the content you share on LinkedIn. It’s like a Post-It note or sticky note to help you keep track of all your connections.

64

3 years ago

A Google Docs alternative that organizes documents chronologically, and lets you add notes or tags on the document.

63

3 years ago

A tool for making fashion and lifestyle designs more accessible to the visually impaired. It’s designed to be a sort of digital notepad, allowing users to record and share their ideas, or “riffs” as they call them.

63

3 years ago

A software product for sales calls that tracks the call for each person, allowing them to keep notes, monitor progress, and get feedback.

62

3 years ago

A free (or low-cost) online platform that helps you to organize your digital life, with different tabs for different projects like apps, notebooks, notes and more.

62

2 years ago

A company that makes a platform to help people store, manage, and share their physical notes. The startup says it’s already met with 250 companies that want to use the platform, which is free for now, but will charge $5 per user per month after that.

62

4 years ago

A digital notebook for recording and annotating presentations.

61

3 years ago

A tool for accessing and saving notes on your favorite websites, allowing you to leave notes around the web without having to bookmark each page.

61

3 years ago

A software company that aims to make it easier for doctors to collect and organize their notes, and to make it easier for patients to request them.

61

4 years ago

A company that’s building software to help doctors communicate better with their patients, by getting the doctor’s notes into their chart.

60

4 years ago

A tool for storing long term notes, pictures and documents that allows you to collaborate with others, share links, and make edits.

59

3 years ago

A note-taking app that supports Markdown. It’s very similar to Notational Velocity, but for storing notes in your phone.

58

4 years ago

Kallax helps you organize all of your notes, photos, and to do lists and makes them easy to reuse across multiple platforms.

57

3 years ago

A way to create and manage a “journal of your life”. It’s a more basic service than others like Evernote and Google Keep, it just wants to help you get your thoughts down in a way that makes sense of them later on.

57

2 years ago

A startup for college students to sell their notes and study materials.

57

2 years ago

This startup wants to use machine learning to help students with a common homework problem — taking notes in class and organizing them.

57

3 years ago

The startup offers a new way to take notes in your browser. It’s a note adding service, but consumers can also use it for collaborative taking of notes. The startup is also working on a new version of its app that’s a bit like Evernote, but for webpages and notes.

56

3 years ago

A digital notebook for students that syncs with an app

55

4 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the convenience of Evernote-like note taking to PowerPoint presentations.

54

3 years ago

A calendar app for iOS, launched in early 2017, that enables users to share notes and other information about their day with their friends. It’s said to have over 500,000 users.

54

3 years ago

An AI-powered productivity tool that’s meant to help people with autism take notes, organize their notebooks and produce “high-quality” work.

54

3 years ago

A startup that wants to be the best place to keep all your doctors’ notes.

54

3 years ago

Founded in 2017, this startup aims to help people with mental health issues sort their thoughts and writings. The app allows users to take screenshots from their notes and, in response to these notes, the app allows the user to write on top of the screenshot. It’s a tool that’s meant to help users articulate thoughts that they would never be able to articulate otherwise.

54

3 years ago

Another app aimed at helping SMBs get started with sales and marketing. The app brings together a customer’s contact lists, notes, quotes, and leads and allows them to be organized into a CRM-like system.

53

3 years ago

A way to share and access health information, using the power of machine learning and natural language processing. The startup wants to build a way to use AI to analyze a doctor’s notes to understand their medical history.

52

3 years ago

Ezeo is building a product for people who travel and have trouble remembering things. It’s an AI-based assistant that creates personalized notes for you, and you can also set reminders for specific times.

52

3 years ago

A platform for sharing daily tasks, it’s a little like the old “to-do list” and “agenda” apps, but it is much more flexible, with the ability to start a “task” and add details, like a deadline, location, or notes. It’s a B2B app — it’s aimed at retailers and small companies.

51

3 years ago

A tool for setting up emergency events for the homeless, their friends, and supporters. The startup uses a mapped interface to organize people and events, and then helps organize logistics like phone calls, note taking, and transportation.

51

3 years ago

A company that makes a “digital scrapbook for your neighborhood” that lets you record and share everything that happens in a neighborhood, including notes, pictures, and videos.

51

3 years ago

A collaborative note-taking app with a focus on improving the quality of the current note-taking experience.

50

3 years ago

A startup that helps people with chronic conditions and injuries manage their health, data and medications. It’s an SaaS product that helps people add notes on their health data.

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3 years ago

A tool that brings the functionality of Slack into a note-taking app.

48

3 years ago

A tool for providers (doctors, hospitals, labs) that helps them manage appointments and note taking.

47

3 years ago

A collaborative note-taking app, meant to help facilitate meetings and prevent time-wasting conversations.

44

3 years ago

This SaaS platform for healthcare companies includes a feature for doctors to log clinical notes, as well as a patient portal.

43

2 years ago

A startup that’s working to make the process of delivering care more efficient, by automating processes like booking patients, managing clinical notes and sharing information.

43

2 years ago

A contact management app that helps you take notes in the form of lists and photos.

43

2 years ago

This is a mobile app that keep track of your to-do list. It’s similar to Wunderlist in that you can add tasks, notes or lists and share with other users. The app is built for iOS and Android, and integrates with your email, calendar, contacts, and other apps.

41

3 years ago

Nototo is building a visual map interface for note-taking, bringing a very unique interface to a productivity vertical

39

2 years ago

A new way to use an iPhone designed to help teachers and students collaborate on the same lesson plan. It’s a place to get notes and content, with the ability to share assignments and track progress.

39

2 years ago

An “Evernote for work”, which, in its own pitch, claims to be the world’s most used digital tool for work.

37

2 years ago

A tool for taking notes and setting priorities across meetings.

37

2 years ago

A visual note-taking application for the iPad.

36

2 years ago

A software-as-a-service for home health workers. The system is meant to improve pain management and allow workers to share medical notes, follow-up on patients, and electronically receive orders from clients.

36

2 years ago

This startup offers a way to communicate with big landlords about rent hikes in one place, and allows tenants to create a "rent note" with any landlord, which is a set of dates for when a tenant will pay what they owe.

34

2 years ago

The company’s most recent product is a camera that focuses on medical professionals and helps them capture data. It also serves as a tool for health care professionals to take notes and monitor lab results.

33

2 years ago

A virtual assistant for physicians that can handle calls, review case notes, manage schedules, track lab results, and more. The company is building a platform to integrate medicine into the digital age.

33

2 years ago

A visual note-taking app that allows users to insert text or photos and link them to other notes.

32

2 years ago

A multiplier for the “thank you” note. Instead of thanking someone with a note, you can send a gift basket.

32

2 years ago

A modern, social, mobile-centric take on the traditional paper notebook. The company claims the notebooks are more durable, have more space, feel more natural to write in, and also have a quick-access “diary”, “brainstorm”, or “to-do” section to keep track of notes.

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2 years ago

A tool that lets you quickly and easily record and share your ideas. The startup built a way to record audio and take notes on the fly.

29

2 years ago

A digital assistant for doctors, designed to help them take digitals notes while they’re seeing patients. The startup’s co-founder says they’ve already built an app and are looking to scale.

28

2 years ago

A shopper’s assistant that helps you get to the right aisle in a store, taking notes on what you saw and the items you might be interested in.

26

2 years ago

A platform for building and testing standalone web apps. It’s a “developer’s notebook” that allows you to easily work with side projects without the need for a desktop computer.

26

2 years ago

An Android app meant to help you create a notebook for your dream job.

23

2 years ago

A digital notebook that’s a combination of a diary, planner, to-do list, and address book all in one. It’s meant for entrepreneurs and other companies to manage their daily tasks.

22

2 years ago

A web app to help doctors collaborate and share notes on patient cases.

20

2 years ago

A startup that lets you create a simple “placebook” for your friends and family, letting you share photos, notes, and location data.

15

5 years ago

Idea: A voice-to-text app for Android that uses the microphone to take notes. The startup claims that voice is 20x faster than typing on a physical keyboard.

13

2 years ago

A way to create and manage a single “shared” online library of all your notes, files, and documents. The idea is to have a place you can go to get all your stuff, so that you don’t have to worry about losing it from one place to another.

13

2 years ago

The startup helps users automate and scale their workflow with AI, including handwritten notes and voice-to-text transcription.

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2 years ago

Note: These companies were accepted into YC, but have not announced their Demo Day

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11 days ago 1 views

A startup that uses AI to automatically transcribe, summarize, and tag every voice note, meeting recording, and podcast you listen to, creating a personal searchable knowledge base across all your audio.

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4 days ago

AI-powered voice notes app for field sales reps in Latin America, transcribing calls in local dialects and auto-generating CRM updates for tools like Salesforce.

0

3 days ago

A SaaS tool for freelance musicians that generates custom sheet music from hummed melodies or voice notes, with built-in collaboration for bands.

0

1 day ago

An AI-powered service that scans corporate emails and Slack threads to auto-generate personalized thank-you notes and relationship-building follow-ups for sales teams.

0

5 years ago

Idea: A mobile app for writing notes on images and storing them centrally

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23 hours ago

Voice-first podcast editing software that auto-transcribes, cuts filler words, adds music, and generates show notes for indie creators.

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2 days ago 1 views

A startup creating AI-narrated "legacy audiobooks" from users' uploaded photos, letters, and voice notes, turning family histories into shareable podcasts for future generations.

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5 days ago 1 views

AI-powered voice notes app that transcribes meetings in real-time and auto-generates action items, tailored for sales teams on the go.

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2 days ago 1 views

A startup that connects freelance writers with busy executives to ghostwrite personalized thank-you notes and client emails using AI-tuned voices.

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5 days ago 2 views

A startup that builds AI-powered voice notes for doctors to instantly transcribe and summarize patient consultations into compliant medical records.

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6 days ago 3 views

A platform that converts everyday voice notes into searchable, shareable knowledge bases for solopreneurs juggling multiple projects.

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5 days ago

A SaaS tool that converts voice notes from sales calls into CRM-updated action items and follow-up emails for remote sales teams.

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7 days ago 4 views

A startup that builds AI-powered voice notes for construction workers, converting site instructions into searchable blueprints and task lists via wearable earbuds.

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7 days ago

A startup that builds AI-powered voice notes for field sales teams, transcribing conversations in real-time and extracting actionable insights like customer objections and next steps.

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9 days ago 8 views

A startup that builds AI-powered voice notes for field workers in construction, converting spoken updates into structured reports and photos synced to project dashboards.

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9 days ago

A platform that converts voice notes from field sales reps into structured CRM data, using AI to extract deals, contacts, and follow-ups for SMBs in emerging markets.

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7 days ago

A startup connecting freelance educators with corporations for on-demand micro-courses delivered via SMS and voice notes.

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9 days ago 1 views

AI-powered voice notes app that auto-transcribes, summarizes, and tags rambling thoughts into actionable to-do lists for busy professionals.

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9 days ago 1 views

A platform for remote teams to run virtual whiteboarding sessions with AI-assisted shape recognition and real-time physics simulations, turning sticky notes into dynamic prototypes without needing design software.

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10 days ago 2 views

A platform for remote teams to create "virtual whiteboards" that integrate live video feeds, sticky notes, and 3D models for collaborative design sprints.

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