Notty

Notty is a modern personal note-taking app with secure authentication, live dashboard stats, and fast note management. It combines a Next.js frontend with a Flask backend and stores data in SQLite so you can create, update, delete, and search notes in a polished full-stack interface.

Features

• Email/password auth with secure session cookies
• Create, edit, and delete notes
• Search notes by title or content
• Lightweight note formatting with markdown-like rendering
• Live dashboard metrics: total notes, notes created this week, and last update
• Full-stack architecture with Next.js frontend and Flask API backend

Project structure

• frontend/ — Next.js app, UI pages, note editor, authentication flow
• backend/ — Flask API, SQLite database, auth and notes routes

Local development

Backend

1. Create and activate a Python environment.
2. Install dependencies:

pip install flask flask-cors flask-sqlalchemy bcrypt

3. Run the backend server from the project root:

python backend/run.py

The backend listens on http://127.0.0.1:5000 and automatically creates the SQLite database.

Frontend

From frontend/:

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

API endpoints

• POST /api/auth/login — login with email and password
• POST /api/auth/register — create a new user
• GET /api/auth/profile — user profile info
• POST /api/auth/logout — logout
• GET /api/notes/ — list notes
• POST /api/notes/ — create a note
• PUT /api/notes/<id> — update a note
• DELETE /api/notes/<id> — delete a note
• GET /api/stats/ — note statistics

Notes

• The backend uses SQLite at backend/app.db.
• CORS is configured for http://localhost:3000.
• Authentication relies on a cookie named token.

Future improvements

• Add password reset and profile settings
• Add richer markdown support and note tagging
• Add deployment configuration for production