OneHand: Anecdotal Notes

OneHand is a teacher notes app for anecdotal notes and student observation, built around your voice.

Anecdotal notes for teachers, by voice.
Press and hold a student's name, say what you saw, and it becomes a dated note in that student's record.
Speech is turned into text right on your phone. No servers, no AI, no account: student notes never leave your device.

THE MOMENTS WORTH NOTING DON'T HAPPEN AT YOUR DESK
A kind act in the hallway. A conflict at recess. A breakthrough in reading group. A quick word after a parent call. OneHand lets you capture student observations in a few seconds, one-handed, before the moment slips away.

HOW IT WORKS
• Press and hold a name on your class grid and talk. Let go and you're done.
• On-device speech recognition turns your voice into text.
• Mention a student and OneHand suggests a match from your class list. Nothing is filed until you confirm.
• Notes without a student wait in the Inbox, so nothing gets lost.
• The class grid shades each student by how many notes you have this term, so you can see who you haven't observed yet.

SET UP IN A MINUTE
• Paste a numbered class list to add everyone at once (CSV works too)
• Any group can be a class: homeroom, subject classes, clubs, teams
• At the end of the year, archive a class and keep it read-only

READY FOR REPORT CARD SEASON
• A timeline for every student, grouped by term
• Tags for praise, behavior, wellbeing, learning, health and parent contact, suggested from what you said
• Search all notes by keyword, student, tag or term
• Character and word count for report card comments
• Copy any note as text, free

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Everything is stored on your phone
• No sign-up, no ads
• App lock with fingerprint, face unlock or your screen lock
• Encrypted backup file that you keep (Pro)
• Anonymized export: names become Student 1, Student 2... (Pro)

FREE AND PRO
One class is free forever, with the full voice-to-note workflow.
Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription:
• Unlimited classes (homeroom, subject classes, clubs)
• Export to Excel (XLSX) and PDF
• Anonymized export
• Custom tags
• Encrypted backup and restore

GOOD TO KNOW
• Voice recording needs Android 13 or later and on-device speech recognition for your language. OneHand helps you download the language pack the first time.
• On older phones, or phones without on-device recognition, you can still type notes. We never fall back to cloud speech recognition.
• The recording is kept with each note so you can play it back. Backup files contain text only.
• Press and hold the app icon and tap Quick record to start a note in one step.

Use OneHand as your teacher notes app for anecdotal notes, behavior notes, conferring notes, IEP observations and report card comments. All of it stays private on your phone.

Made by a classroom teacher who needed it every day.
Questions or ideas: syninasoft@gmail.com

Recent changes:
First release of OneHand. Hold a student's name and speak — your note is transcribed on your device and saved to that student's record. No account, no server: student data never leaves your phone.