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BoostNote-Legacy

This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App

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This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-01-17 23:35:45 UTC to 2020-03-13 19:57:55 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I'm not that concerned about Quiver not being open source, as its note storage format is simple & documented json. Should there be a reason to move away from Quiver, it would be pretty simple to construct a way of transferring notes (assuming the destination is as transparent). In the meantime, it's quite a pleasure to use: very fast, well-presented, and with carefully-considered interactions. I must give Boostnote a try. On the face of it, I would think an engineering notebook, to be used daily for large amounts of stuff, would be a paradigmatic case for a native app like Quiver rather than electron. But then there's Atom & vscode so maybe not? And I'm a bit uncomfortable with Boostnote's copyright transfer for pull requests (https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote/blob/master/contributin...). But then again, I pay little attention to copyr
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ight matters so perhaps just haven't noticed if this is common in open source. And it's clearly nevertheless more open than Quiver.
In The software engineering notebook
Hi developers, Boostnote is an open source note-taking app for programmers, allows Markdown and Snippet note. Repository -> https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote We built this to increase developers productivity. Features: > Desktop app (Mac, Windows, Linux) > No Internet Required > Finder Popup(Quick search and copy/paste) > Latex Support > Multiple Hotkeys > Markdown/Snippet Note Enjoy Boostnote!
In Show HN: Boostnote – An open-source note taking app designed for programmers

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