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Top 23 Note Open-Source Projects
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AFFiNE
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [Ιβfain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
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Project mention: Show HN: FixBrowser β a lightweight web browser created from scratch | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-24
Python may not be the best example, but some other languages also exist and are both less "weird" than https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs and fast (e.g. see http://luajit.org/ which is far less complex than V8).
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Project mention: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-25
I can also recommend Trilium Notes [1], which I have been happily using for years. It's currently in "maintenance mode", which I personally see as a feature (no risk of bloatware).
Self-hosted, great webapp, optional native clients and works offline.
https://github.com/zadam/trilium
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βοΈ Nginx Handbook π‘ Apache π₯ Caddy
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xournalpp
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.
I tried a whole bunch of the these apps, and I decided that Xournal++ [1] is better than Rnote for note taking. However, I have used Openboard [2] for teaching online since 2020.
I agree that Rnote's smoothing is better, but it's tool selection UX is terrible. There are three different bars (top, bottom, and side), and you often need to move your mouse/hand to all of them across the screen in order to select the right tool. In Xournal++ I can put everything on the top bar.
Xournal++ has it's own problems. Pasting an image always makes it so big, that resizing to the correct size is difficult. It also doesn't have a laser pointer, which is why I can't use it for teaching. Creating a new document with the correct template is also painful.
Honestly, in another life, I would write a decent note-taking app.
[1] https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/
[2] https://github.com/OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard/
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Project mention: 15 Open-Source Projects to Replace Popular SaaS Tools & Apps π¨βπ»π₯ | dev.to | 2025-01-13
π©βπ» GitHub link | β 9.7K stars | π» Website link
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Project mention: OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access / KVM console) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-11
This site is built on CodiMD, which seems like a really cool platform for editing and publishing markdown: https://github.com/hackmdio/CodiMD
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Tiddlywiki https://tiddlywiki.com/ is good at cross-linking notes and publishing to the web.
Consider writing plain HTML and calling it a digital garden, so you aren't locked into the chronological feed blog mindset.
Maybe Obsidian Publish? https://obsidian.md/publish#:~:text=Explore%20Publish%20site...
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nb
CLI and local web plain text noteβtaking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
Project mention: Nb β note taking and archiving on the command line | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03 -
Project mention: Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-12
This has become one of my favourite tools over the last couple of years:
https://jrnl.sh
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Project mention: 10 GitHub Repositories That Will Level Up Your Coding Skills in 2025. | dev.to | 2024-12-31
Link: https://github.com/JuanCrg90/Clean-Code-Notes
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Die you check the `zotero-better-notes`? [1]
> LaTex math in Zotero note is no longer a dream. The `zotero-better-notes` addon now supports this feature!
[1]: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes
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app
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
Project mention: Automating the most annoying aspects of blogging | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-14I havenβt used this service, but it does have some kind of integrated publishing feature.
https://standardnotes.com/
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Project mention: HedgeDoc β self-hosted collaborative Markdown editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-03
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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
Project mention: Ask HN: FOSS notes offline app with navigation tree, ideally cross platform? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-04 -
Project mention: Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-12
Heynote was exactly developed for this purpose. Just one big buffer with sections and lots of shortcuts and nice little additional features: https://heynote.com/
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book-notes
Notes from books and other interesting things that I've read. Table of contents at the end π
Project mention: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It (2016) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-12 -
Project mention: App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-31
Hi there! Yes, I will switch to a more distinctive icon in the future once I can afford to hire a new designer.
Multiplayer was quoting the correct reason. I also exeplained more about the timeline here: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/issues/690#issuecomment...
Tldr: The FOSS version earned a stable revenue through Google Ads placed on the website, since the website ranked high on Google searches. Two years ago, that changed since the website got de-ranked, so I created a different, proprietary version of the app based on the FOSS version but with a totally revamped block editor that I wrote from scratch - that I worked on full-time for a whole 1 year.
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ideas
a hundred ideas for computing - a record of ideas - https://samsquire.github.io/ideas/ (by samsquire)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Note projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AFFiNE | 44,675 |
| 2 | wtfjs | 35,354 |
| 3 | Trilium Notes | 27,853 |
| 4 | nginx-admins-handbook | 13,572 |
| 5 | xournalpp | 11,723 |
| 6 | notesnook | 10,717 |
| 7 | Lepton | 10,172 |
| 8 | HackMD | 9,397 |
| 9 | rnote | 8,567 |
| 10 | TiddlyWiki | 8,159 |
| 11 | takenote | 6,935 |
| 12 | nb | 6,803 |
| 13 | jrnl | 6,592 |
| 14 | massCode | 5,907 |
| 15 | Clean-Code-Notes | 5,880 |
| 16 | zotero-better-notes | 5,810 |
| 17 | app | 5,485 |
| 18 | HedgeDoc | 5,391 |
| 19 | QOwnNotes | 4,806 |
| 20 | heynote | 4,238 |
| 21 | book-notes | 3,952 |
| 22 | notes | 3,889 |
| 23 | ideas | 3,769 |
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