VNote: A pleasant note-taking platform

by internetguyon 1/20/2024, 3:38 AMwith 53 comments

by account-5on 1/20/2024, 9:21 AM

I currently use zim-wiki for structured notes. It's also plain text/folder based. It doesn't use markdown though.

I'm glad to see this is offline local first. I like that it can be made portable too. It seems more complicated than zim-wiki (but that might just be my knowledge of zim).

I'll be taking a look. Hopefully when the pro version comes they don't restrict useful functionality.

by dangon 1/20/2024, 6:54 PM

Related:

VNote, an open source markdown note-taking app with Wiki page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547056 - June 2020 (1 comment)

Show HN: Viki, a simple Wiki page in Markdown from notebook of VNote - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556938 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

Show HN: VNote 2.0 – PlantUML editing via Preview Tunnel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049100 - Sept 2018 (9 comments)

Show HN: VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821 - Jan 2018 (86 comments)

by lcofon 1/20/2024, 11:23 AM

I like the idea of not using heavy electron UIs, but really, I does not matter much nowadays, at least for me. Important features are synchronized notes, with mobile and desktop support, and syncing should be end to end encrypted. I should be able to link a note to another, include some media, and use markdown, that is easily importable/exportable. I still to this day couldn’t find a good foss alternative to Joplin with WebDAV or Joplin Server (or cloud offerings).

by CrypticShifton 1/20/2024, 12:11 PM

This is "Chinese". I personally don't mind, especially if it is open source. But I've seen another China (and electron) based note-taking app vilified for this reason.

FYI It is Siyuan [1]. What is unique about it is the logseq-like block-level granularity (ref/embed/query) and (soon) the notion-like databases.

[1] https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

by clbrmbron 1/20/2024, 2:20 PM

What is note-taking exactly? Like notes from meetings, or like a replacement for a journal, or? Why not just use a text editor?

I’ve been operating for years without a “note-taking” solution. What am I missing?

by hereme888on 1/20/2024, 8:19 AM

It looks so much like Obsidian, except for the Vi.

by newshackron 1/20/2024, 7:42 PM

Curious how this compares to obsidian

by nittanymounton 1/20/2024, 4:37 AM

nice, has mac version too.

by rubymamison 1/20/2024, 9:43 AM

Nice, but as others pointed out, this uses a webview to render the underlying text. My note-taking app, Plume[1] is written in Qt C++ and QML, without resorting to webview, rather, rendering using my own custom QML components. Plume's model is written in C++ while the view in QML, allowing for a very performant (benchmarks on the website) yet fluid experience with beautiful animations.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/