Index Cards

Index Cards -- a quiet, offline notes app in the spirit of an old library catalog drawer. Cream cards with a red top stripe and faint blue ruling, on a dark oak shelf. Brown ink, brass corner clips. Five modes, hand-typed tag stamps, the whole drawer at your thumb. FIVE MODES - Text: free prose. A morning page, an idea, a paragraph. - Checklist: a list of things to do. Tap any item to tick it off. - Bullets: a clean bulleted list, one thought per line. - Quote: a block quote with a vertical red bar. - Code: monospace snippets for recipes, commands, anything fixed-width. Pick the mode when you start a card, change it any time from the editor. THE HOME DRAWER A sticky top rail with the brand, today's date, and your current day-run streak as a small ticket. Below it, a single search field, four filter tabs (All, Pinned, Recent, Archived), and three quick stat chips: cards on the shelf, edits today, archived count. The very first item in the list is the action button itself -- a dashed-bordered "+ NEW CARD" tile that fills the role of a floating button without one. Tap it, choose the mode, write the card, file it. The rest of the list follows below: pinned cards on top, then the drawer in your chosen sort order. Each card looks like a real catalog card -- a thin red top stripe, brass triangle clip in the corner, faint blue ruling across the body, the title in heavy serif, a one-line italic preview, a small bordered tag stamp at the bottom-left, and word count + last-edit on the right. THE EDITOR Tap a card to open it. Header has back, pin and archive controls. A coloured accent line runs under the header. Then the title field, the mode pills, the body input (typography switches to monospace in code mode), and a tag field. A short edit history of every create/edit/archive event with timestamps. A save bar at the bottom shows unsaved state and a "keep it" button. A small "tear this page out" button in the danger zone deletes the card with a confirmation prompt. TAGS A second screen lists every tag with note counts and a by-mode breakdown of the whole drawer. Tap a tag to filter the cards inside; tap again to clear. ADVANCED SETTINGS - Dark theme on or off. - Font size: small, regular, large. - Default mode for new cards. - Sort order: recent edit, title, manual, mode. - Show archived in home list. - Soft haptics on or off. - Tag manager (long-press rename). - Empty the archive drawer. - Tear out the whole book. THE WEEK, IN CARDS A seven-cell strip shows your edits per day for the past week. Today is dewey-red; earlier days are sage; days with no edits are a small grey tick. MILESTONES A quiet celebration of consistency, in the catalog voice: - three cards, in row - a week of filed cards - a fortnight kept in ink - a month of daily entries - one hundred cards filed - half a year on the index - a full drawer, catalogued OFFLINE AND PRIVATE - Entirely offline. No internet required. - Your drawer stays on your device. - Encrypted with AES at rest, key held in the secure keystore. - No analytics, no accounts, no tracking. ANNO MMXXVI -- DRAWER NO. I Index Cards. File it, find it again.