Highlightr vs fsnotes

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Highlightr		fsnotes
	Project
2	Mentions	58
1,593	Stars	6,115
-	Growth	-
2.8	Activity	8.9
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Highlightr

Posts with mentions or reviews of Highlightr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-09.

A more programmer-friendly markdown notebook
8 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2022

raspu/Highlightr: Syntax highlighting capability.
How can I show some code in a view for the user, with correct formatting and colors, like in the app « Swift Animation Playground » for instance ?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 9 Nov 2021

Is this helpful? https://github.com/raspu/Highlightr

fsnotes

Posts with mentions or reviews of fsnotes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.

Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy?
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024

FSNotes for macOS and iOS is one I used for a little while.
https://fsnot.es/
todo.txt is another thing that comes to mind.
http://todotxt.org/
And of course pretty much all of *nix.
TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
Modern open source notes manager for macOS and iOS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
IA Writer in Paper
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
Fsnotes: Open-source Notes manager for macOS/iOS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
What's the best notes app that unites features of Apple notes and reminders AND is open-source according to you?
1 project | /r/productivity | 13 May 2023

FSNotes is excellent.
A Definitive Note App Comparison
4 projects | /r/macapps | 5 May 2023

https://fsnot.es/ Free, OS ..
Notion alternative for comp sci note taking?
2 projects | /r/macapps | 7 Feb 2023
Looking for a simple, robust, fast note taking app with offline mode.
2 projects | /r/productivity | 28 Nov 2022

https://fsnot.es/ is great - fast, native, free (but you can support developer by in-app purchase)
Apple Notes or a better alternative?
2 projects | /r/macapps | 18 Nov 2022

FSnote (https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes) is one of the closest alternative app to Apple note. Simple and fast.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Highlightr and fsnotes you can also consider the following projects:

MarkdownKit - A simple and customizable Markdown Parser for Swift

obsidian-dataview - A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.

ZSSRichTextEditor - A beautiful rich text WYSIWYG editor for iOS with a syntax highlighted source view

Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Notepad - [iOS] A fully themeable markdown editor with live syntax highlighting.

obsidian-git - Backup your Obsidian.md vault with git

Smile - :smile: Emoji in Swift

orgzly-android - Outliner for taking notes and managing to-do lists

Marklight - Markdown syntax highlighter for iOS

notable - The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.

Twitter Text Obj - Twitter Text Libraries. This code is used at Twitter to tokenize and parse text to meet the expectations for what can be used on the platform.

org-journal - A simple org-mode based journaling mode