Tabula vs Nullboard

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Tabula		Nullboard
	Project
6	Mentions	15
1,733	Stars	2,479
1.7%	Growth	-
0.6	Activity	5.3
15 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Java	Language	HTML
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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.

Tabula

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tabula. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-06.

Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 8 Jun 2021

1 project | /r/hackernews | 8 Jun 2021

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2021
Extract tables from PDF files
1 project | /r/java | 7 Jun 2021
Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021

tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.
[0] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java
Tabula: Liberate Data From PDF Tables [jRuby]
3 projects | /r/ruby | 7 May 2021

Ties together a Cuba web app, the tabula-java library and lauch4j to provide a platform executable.

Nullboard

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nullboard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
212 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2023
Show HN: Nbagent – simple Nullboard backup agent for Unix systems
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023

Hello, HN! I'd like to introduce you to nbagent[0], an open-source alternative backup agent for Nullboard[1] for Unix systems. If you, like me, are a fan of Nullboard's simplicity and you've been looking for an easy way to have your data backed up, check it out.
I'd love to hear your feedback on nbagent. Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, or questions below.
[0] https://github.com/luismedel/nbagent
[1] https://nullboard.io/preview
Nullboard: Minimalist Kanban board, focused on compactness and readability
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023
Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023

Surprisingly no one has mentioned nullboard (https://nullboard.io/preview) yet. Just a single file JSON to carry around the entire board.
Looking for a Very Simple Kanban
2 projects | /r/opensource | 23 Jan 2023

Nullboard maybe?
Software for organizing board game nights?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 11 Sep 2022

minimalist kanban board, without fancy tagging/time tracking/... features. Every game has a column, and notes are player names. nullboard would be perfect if it wasn't local only;
Phabricator replacement? | Or OpenProject alternative? | issue tracking/code
53 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Aug 2022

Nullboard - cool simple project, no bug tracking
Real hidden gems when it comes to self hosting
68 projects | /r/selfhosted | 17 Mar 2022

Nullboard - Kanban board with dark mode, localStorage, and thoughtful UI
Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
264 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2021
Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021

I use and like https://nullboard.io/preview nullboard which runs in the browser. Because it uses local data, you need to save it or the data is lost when you close the browser window.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Tabula and Nullboard you can also consider the following projects:

OpenPDF - OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files, with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.

react-tech-tree - React visual tree components. Demo: https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/

Open HTML to PDF - An HTML to PDF library for the JVM. Based on Flying Saucer and Apache PDF-BOX 2. With SVG image support. Now also with accessible PDF support (WCAG, Section 508, PDF/UA)!

Kanboard - Kanban project management software

vscode-jq - jq LiveView Extension for VS Code

sleek - todo.txt manager for Linux, Windows and MacOS, free and open-source (FOSS)

cakephp-swagger-bake - Automatically generate OpenAPI, Swagger, and Redoc documentation from your existing CakePHP code.

logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

intercooler-js - Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags

Wekan - The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.

QR-Code-generator - High-quality QR Code generator library in Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Rust, C++, C.

TiddlyWiki - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.