PRprvt·May 5, 2023Submission
Notekit: A GTK3 hierarchical Markdown notetaking application with tablet support
2 points · Open discussionblackhole89
notekit
C++2019–2023
blackhole89 / notekit
notekit
A GTK3 hierarchical markdown notetaking application with tablet support.
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A GTK3 hierarchical markdown notetaking application with tablet support.
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Observed mentions: 2019-09-08 20:16:50 UTC to 2023-05-05 16:58:32 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesI use NoteKit[0], one of the nicest things about it is that a can paste an image and draw on it, simple yet useful. Does "Notes" offer the same functionality? And what about spell check?
Anyway, great project, I'll give it a try! :)
[0]: https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit/
In Notes: Fast note-taking app, open-source, without Electron, built in Qt C++Well, it's not exactly unsustainable - the Github CI continues producing those builds without me having to do anything for it (it in fact didn't break even once in the past year, compared to several breakages on the "backwards-compatible" Ubuntu 18.04 deb which happened whenever Github changed something about the package bundle available to that image). If someone reports a bug on Windows, I will look into it, and/or spend some time walking them through a workaround (since I do in fact have access to Windows setups). As I see it, in the most natural sense of support, I do have support for Windows, even though it is what I guess you would call Tier 2 support.
To nitpick a little, I also didn't say I don't think that those who care about licensing issues would use [the Windows build]; rather, I think that those who don't care about licensin
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g issues and are on Windows would not use it, because there is a Windows-only product that is closed-source which I am unlikely to be able to compete with on that ground.
I'm not really advertising Mac support beyond having some files merged from people who did get it to work (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit/blob/master/screensho...).
I've been working on one (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit) for a while now (which, unlike the aforementioned, also is not built on Chrome/Electron). Unfortunately it seems to be pretty hard to get the word out, or at least I haven't found any better strategy than to pounce, as I am doing now, whenever I see a HN thread about markdown editors (which invariably wind up having some comment thread lamenting the lack of WYSIWYG and/or non-Electron editors).
In Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows"Mark Text" (https://marktext.app/) seems to be one.
(HN thread from Nov 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462832 — I asked for other editors like this and got no other answers AFAICT. So this Mark Text is still the only open-source "WYSIWYG" Markdown editor I'm aware of.)
Edit: The https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit mentioned in a sibling comment is now another.
In GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editorI'm actually working on one (https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit). It's native (Gtk+/C++) rather than Electron, too.
In GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editorA new application: https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit/
A more mature one: https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/
I know none of the ones mentioned match OneNote completely.
In LibreOffice ReleaseNotes 7.0Show HN: A hierarchical Markdown notetaking tool with mouse/tablet drawing
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