>navigate to the app, wait for it to load up, press the + button, type in the idea using your thumbs, write in a title, save it, shit the app just crashed, load the app back up, great my idea wasnt saved, guess ill try writing it again, damn it i wish these notifications would stop popping up and pinging me, uhhh crap what was the clever angle to my idea again? Damn it.

This is like the black-and-white scene in an infomercial in which a person dramatically fails to perform a simple, everyday task.

If using an app is truly that hard, use a different app.

I have an "email to self" app on my phone. One tap and it opens my email app with my personal email address pre-loaded. Then I write whatever in there, or use voice dictation, and hit send. Syncing, backups, distribution to all my devices - all taken care of already because it's email. Fancy stuff.

What it sucks for is any idea that is better explained or formulated with a drawing. For that I use paper. When I'm done, I take a picture with my phone, and then it gets synced to the cloud.