WandEdit

✨ Inspiration

I wanted to prove to myself that even complex, powerful tools like Notion could be rebuilt with AI — by a solo creator without a traditional coding background. My goal wasn’t just to build an app, but to test Bolt.new as a design tool. This UI and UX were designed entirely inside Bolt. It might not look impressive, but for a first experimental project, it's a solid result. Imagine adding two more years of experience — we might be able to say goodbye to Figma.

⚙️ What it does

WandEdit is a Notion-like productivity tool that lets you create, edit, and link tasks, notes, and projects. It features:

• Rich content blocks in tasks and notes (text, todos, headers, Mermaid-powered diagrams)

• Linking between entities for simple navigation

• AI-powered creation of notes, tasks, and projects

• Automatic project decomposition into tasks when created via AI

• A conversational AI assistant — ask questions, and if the answers are helpful, you can instantly save them into notes

🛠️ How I built it

I tried a lot of approaches in this single project. At first, I used Mermaid for big, rich prompts — but I found myself spending too much time on prompt engineering and diagramming. It worked, but felt slow.

Then I started treating Bolt as a Mermaid generator. I began with a root app flow using traditional big prompts, then shifted to a faster method: experimenting with smaller tasks and iterating quickly. Rather than overthinking “How do I visualize this?”, I asked: “Does this work?” and “What should I add next?” It burned more tokens, but was worth the speed and flexibility.

🧱 Challenges

• Supabase integration: As a designer, I didn’t fully understand what was going on behind the scenes. I hit a few walls — some migrations broke the app. Eventually, I duplicated the project and reconnected it to a clean database. And it worked!

• Design via prompting: Designing visually with prompts is still tricky. Sometimes it’s easier to just open the code editor and remove or tweak overgenerated UI elements manually. Commenting out blocks and using the Bolt code editor worked well.

• Real-time updates: Updates didn’t always reflect without a reload. Some bugs remain, but I’ve already discussed them with the Bolt team and know how to fix them.

🏆 Accomplishments

• Rebuilt a Notion-like experience in under 2 weeks, solo
• Fully working task + note + project editor with AI generation
• A much deeper understanding of the coming AI-first future

📚 What I learned

• Bolt.new dramatically lowers the barrier to building apps

🚀 What's next for WandEdit

• Smarter AI that auto-schedules tasks based on your calendar
• More content block types and a better exploration mode — I want WandEdit to become the main tool for answering questions and saving insights
• Bug fixes and improved stability
• Subscription system
• Official launch

Built With

• netlify
• openai
• react
• supabase
• vite