The Notes app: Where our weirdest, purest selves reside

This is Ode To…, a weekly column where we share the stuff we’re really into in hopes that you’ll be really into it, too.

Open up your Notes app. Take a quick scroll. Not 100% sure what’s going on there, are you?

For the most part, we don’t compose Notes with an audience in mind. In fact, we assume that no one but us (if we remember to look) will ever see them again. The result is a surprisingly authentic account of what we’ve been up to, what we’ve seen, what we want to remember — a stupidly earnest, unintentional diary.

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