19 stories tagged note-taking, newest first.
16 points by swimmingbrain | 0 comments
GitHub repository for braiNOTES, an MIT-licensed browser app for handwritten pen notes and whiteboarding on lecture PDFs, stored locally with no account or backend.
38 points by speckx | 39 comments
A blog post on baty.net about the author's attempt to move his notes out of Emacs due to "Emacs Fatigue" and why he ended up returning.
642 points by zakirullin | 312 comments
GitHub repository for files.md, an MIT-licensed open-source note-taking app that keeps your life in plain Markdown files, pitched as an Obsidian alternative.
426 points by xz18r | 151 comments
Obsidian blog post announcing Obsidian Community, a new directory and developer dashboard for Obsidian plugins and themes.
567 points by adilmoujahid | 203 comments
Obsidian Help documentation page for Headless Sync, an open-beta command-line client for syncing Obsidian vaults without the desktop app.
631 points by twapi | 207 comments
Obsidian help documentation introducing Bases, a core plugin that turns sets of notes into database-style views with properties, filters, and formulas.
460 points by MrVandemar | 291 comments
Joan Westenberg's essay on deleting her 'second brain' of 10,000 notes and seven years of saved ideas, and why she did it.
380 points by ingve | 251 comments
Blog post by Juha-Matti Santala arguing that a pen and notebook are a developer's most important tools for thinking through problems.
417 points by williamsss | 468 comments
A blog post by Amber Williams about leaving Obsidian and building her own personal knowledge management system.
465 points by yevgenyhong | 121 comments
Nash is a self-contained note-taking editor in a single HTML file that can be saved, edited offline, and shared or hosted as static content.
531 points by debone | 270 comments
Introduction page of Johnny.Decimal, a system for organising files and information by assigning unique numeric IDs to areas and categories.
893 points by charles_f | 256 comments
A blog post by Charles Féval, a Microsoft principal engineer, advocating keeping a work journal to recover focus faster and clarify thinking.
425 points by yarapavan | 226 comments
Jeff Huang describes his 14-year productivity system of tracking todos, notes, and plans in a single never-ending text file.
341 points by samlhuillier | 83 comments
GitHub repository for Reor, an open-source desktop note-taking app that runs local LLMs and vector search for semantic linking and RAG Q&A over markdown notes.
891 points by jonatanheyman | 271 comments
Landing page for Heynote, a desktop scratchpad app for developers with block-based notes, math evaluation, and syntax highlighting.
356 points by TTTZ | 228 comments
Landing page for Anytype, a local-first, peer-to-peer "everything app" for notes and knowledge management positioned as a Notion alternative.
348 points by ralgozino | 171 comments
Introduction page of the Johnny.Decimal system, a numbered scheme for organising files, projects, and information into areas, categories, and IDs.
598 points by pps | 182 comments
Blog post from Reproof arguing that notes apps act as insurance for the mind, letting ideas be forgotten, and that this is a good thing.
350 points by 42point2 | 152 comments
Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.