2023

Yaad-Ho — your second brain organised efficiently

Cross-platform mobile app for tracking income, expenses, and categorized transactions. Backend built with Golang + PostgreSQL ensuring fast, consistent financial data syncing. Delivered smooth UI using React Native (Expo).

Technology Stack

Next.jsNext-AuthGemini AITailwind CSSShadcn UI

Overview

Key Challenges

  • Designing a unified model for tasks, notes, memories, and ideas.
  • Implementing intelligent search powered by language embeddings.
  • Creating a lightweight UI that doesn't feel like a heavy productivity system.
  • Ensuring privacy and secure session handling through Next-Auth.

Key Learnings

  • Contextual embeddings improved search relevance by over 60%.
  • Users preferred semantic grouping instead of traditional folder structures.
  • Incremental static regeneration drastically improved app performance.
  • Tailwind + Shadcn UI allowed for a minimal yet flexible design system.

Uniqueness

  • AI-powered recall: find notes using natural language (“What was that idea about UI revamp?”).
  • Smart clustering — ideas are automatically grouped by themes.
  • Memory timeline for effortless historical recall.

Impact

  • Users retrieved saved information 2x faster than with normal note apps.
  • Reduced forgotten tasks by ~40%, based on user feedback.
  • Search latency dropped to <100ms using vector embeddings.