I'm looking into Xamarin for the first time. I've looked at the Xamarin 101 tutorial and seen the bare-bones note taking app they walk you through developing, and I'm hoping to improve it significantly. I've already added the feature to edit notes and set a title for a note, but there's still a few more ideas I want.
I think taking an existing project and improving upon it, as opposed to starting a fresh new project, has helped me somewhat. I have to think less about how to get it started and whether the framework or style is right, because some of the code is already there.