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churichard / notabase

notabase

A second brain for your knowledge, thoughts, and ideas.

3Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
915GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A second brain for your knowledge, thoughts, and ideas.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-05-16 20:44:42 UTC to 2025-12-21 08:23:21 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

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
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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I'm making Notabase [1], which is a personal knowledge base for non-linear thinking. It's inspired by note-taking apps like Notion, Roam Research, and Obsidian. I started it because I wanted a note-taking app for networked thought / Zettelkasten that is easy to use for the average user (not the average Hacker News reader). So you don't need to use Markdown if you don't want to, you can format text in other ways like using the formatting toolbar or through keyboard shortcuts. And syncing between different devices is handled automatically for you since it's a web app. I also wanted to make it open source [2] so that anyone could look at the code and contribute to it if they wanted to. I'm not a big fan of the way that a lot of the apps in this space are closed source -- you don't really know what they're doing with your data, and it doesn't
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inspire confidence in the app's longevity. It's still early in development, but I'm hoping to build a solid community behind it. [1] https://notabase.io [2] https://github.com/churichard/notabase
In Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

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