Why I Stopped Using BJJ Notes and Built My Own

Somebody asked me at training how I keep my notes, and I told them I nearly paid for an app back in May and then went and built a simple system myself instead. I’d been keeping notes for about two years by then. First in BJJ Notes app, which I started using in Canada in my first year. I just stayed on the free tier because I wasn’t going to run a subscription to store a paragraph about where I should have my knees. At that point everything went into Google Keep and so it sat in with the shopping and other stray thoughts. Neither of them worked and it wasn’t really the apps’ fault. ...

August 3, 2026 · 4 min · Kashif Nazir