Missing Notes After Backup Issues
Users are experiencing issues with missing notes in the Notability app, even after backing up their files. This leads to frustration as notes can disappear or be automatically deleted, requiring manual recovery from backup sources.
4 people in 4 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 4 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 4 people using Notability: AI Notes & Planner
- What goes wrong
- Missing feature50% of posts
- Manual work25% of posts
- How bad
- 50% of posts are complaints · pain score low (32/100)
- Since
- 18 Sept 2026 → 19 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Notability: AI Notes & Planner
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 50% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
People are asking for
In their own words — asks pulled from the evidence, most-repeated first
“I pay money for this app, yet today all of my notes are magically gone.”
“Notability: AI Notes & Planner — Missing files even after backup.”
“Notes will go missing and automatically delete.”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint250%
- Request250%
Sources
4 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
Notability: AI Notes & Planner — Missing files even after backup Are use Notability through my entire bachelors and some of my masters program and today when I woke up, all my files were gone. I tried to restore it through my back up, but that was not working and I tried to restore it through updating my iPad and…
Missing featureNotability: AI Notes & Planner — WARNING Do NOT use this app. Notes will go missing and automatically delete. I’ve spend countless hours with support staff who claim there is nothing they can do. If you want to keep important notes save and be able to access them at any time I would steer clear of Notability. If I…
Missing feature…s and hours on my notes. They are beautiful and I had them backed up. I pay money for this app, yet today all of my notes are magically gone. All of my hard work gone. I am so angry. Be prepared to one day loose all of your hard work and never see it again. Biggest crash out I’ve ever had.
Would pay…on Mac resulted in my entire notes library being removed from my Mac. Not to be returned unless I do it by hand from my backup source.
Manual work
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 40.9 → 40.8 · 23 Sept 2026, 17:00 → 18:15 UTC
How the score was measured38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Missing Notes After Backup Issues a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 4 different people described it independently, in 4 mentions, the earliest from 18 Sept 2026 and the most recent from 19 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: emerging — newly appearing in the evidence. Momentum is 83/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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Discussion
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