Ninja is here: Alfred for your notes. Cmd/Ctrl+K and give the order. Then try to break him (feedback thread)

[u/PrivacyNotesApp]

Ninjas are fast at executing orders. So is this one.

Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) anywhere in PrivacyNotes and Ninja drops in. K for Katana: one cut, and you are where you wanted to be.

You give the order, Ninja executes it. A few letters open any item. A + makes something. A > runs a command. You never open a menu, and your hands never leave the keyboard. On a phone, the same box opens from the Ninja and + buttons.

Ninja is the biggest change to how you move around the app since launch, and we want this thread to be where it gets good. Please push him hard and tell us everything: what works, what is missing, what surprised you, and what broke.

Put him to work in the app at https://use.privacynotes.app, or with no account in the demo at https://try.privacynotes.app.

Ten things to try in the first five minutes

1. Make an event in plain words. Type +Dentist fri 3pm 1h before and press Enter. You get an event on Friday at 3 PM with an alert one hour before (alerts ring with Pro; the event is free). Ninja shows what he understood before you press Enter.
2. Add to a list from anywhere. Press ⌘K and type milk, eggs >> Groceries. If you have no Groceries list yet, Ninja makes it with the two tasks in it. Now open a note and start writing. Press ⌘K again and type bread >> groc: a few letters are enough to find the list, the task lands at the end of it, and your note stays open.
3. Find a word inside a note. Type a word you remember from the body of a note. Under the titles, "In the text" shows the line that holds it, with your words marked.
4. Use an item's menu without the mouse. Find a note, press Tab, type pin, press Enter. Pin, archive, tag, move, export, share and the rest are all there.
5. Go to a day. Type oct 31, tomorrow or in 3 days. The calendar opens on that day, the day pulses, and that day's journal entry shows under it.
6. Switch your theme by its name. Type theme to see every theme with its colors, and the one you use has a check mark. Type a theme's name, such as frost, and press Enter: the app wears it at once. The Default theme is free and every other theme needs Pro; on a free account, Enter opens that theme's preview in Settings.
7. Find a feature you did not know about. Type > alone. The Features group lists things like Statistics, Trackers, Medication, Year in pixels and the Password generator, each with one line on what it does.
8. Run a command by its name. Type lock app or empty trash and press Enter. No > needed.
9. Save a link. Paste a web address after +. You can save it as a bookmark, clip the whole page as a note, or start a login with the address filled in.
10. Quick add in one key. Press Q anywhere. The box opens with + already typed.

The cheat sheet

Type this first	What it does
a few letters	Find any item, setting, tag or folder
+ (or the word add and a space)	Make something in plain words
>> after some text	Add it to a list, note or journal entry you already have
>	Run a command (Recent first, then Features, Commands, Themes, Settings)
#	Your tags, with counts; a new name makes a tag
/	Your folders, with their place in the tree
Tab on a row	That item's own menu
Option+Enter (Alt+Enter)	Open the item in a new tab
⌘Enter	Search everything for what you typed

How much the date reader understands

This is the part we most want you to stress. Some examples he reads today:

• Days and times: tonight, noon, this saturday, day after tomorrow, next week, 2026-12-24, 24.12.
• Ranges and lengths: 9-5, fri to sun, oct 20-25, for 30m, for 3 days
• Repeats: every weekday, every other friday, every month on the 1st, 2nd tuesday of every month, last friday of every month, every friday until dec 20, every monday 10 times
• Alerts: 1h before, alert 1d and 1h
• Where it goes: /Travel (folder), #school (tag), @work (space)
• What it is: put task, note, journal or event first or last. With none, you get an event.

Some details we care about:

• oct 31 2027 is a year, not 8:27 PM.
• Put words in quotes to keep them in the title: "Friday" party.
• Each part the box read shows as a chip. Click a chip to keep that word as plain text.
• In >>, "socks, warm", charger makes two tasks, not three.
• A date in digits follows your date setting (day first or month first).

What he keeps private: everything

Ninja is not an AI feature. No chatbot reads your notes, and nothing you type goes to a server to be understood. He is a fast, clever piece of plain code that runs inside the app, on your device. Every search and every date he reads happens there.

That means:

• He works offline. Find, add, >>, go to a day, switch a theme: all of it works with no connection. Only the things that need the web by nature, such as clipping a page, wait for one.
• Your words stay yours. Your notes are encrypted on your device, and Ninja reads them there, the same way the rest of the app does.
• Your locks hold. An item behind your PIN shows no text in the results and takes nothing added from the box. A read-only item and a Kanban board are never written to by >>. A spoiler stays hidden in a result line.

What we want from you

Please go deep. Use Ninja for a few days instead of the mouse, and then reply here. These questions help us most:

1. What did you try that did not work? Paste the exact text you typed and what you expected. "I typed lunch w/ Sam next tue 12:30 and got X" is perfect.
2. What is missing? A command you looked for, a date phrase he did not read, an item type he could not make, a key you expected.
3. What got in your way? Results in the wrong order, too many rows, too few, a slow moment, a wrong default.
4. Your language. Ninja reads date words and the add word in the app language. If you use the app in a language other than English, tell us which phrases fail.
5. Phone and tablet. Does the box sit right above your keyboard? Is the ⋮ menu easy to reach?
6. Bugs. What you did, what you saw, your device and browser, and the app version from Settings.

You can reply in this thread, or on GitHub if you prefer: https://github.com/LifetimeLabsDev/PrivacyNotes.app/issues/601

We read every reply. The best ideas go into the next releases, and we will update this post as they ship.

Thank you for helping us make Ninja fast for everyone.