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fsnotes
Swift2018–2026
glushchenko / fsnotes

fsnotes

Fast Markdown note-taking app for Mac and iPhone

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Fast Markdown note-taking app for Mac and iPhone

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-01-22 19:03:03 UTC to 2026-01-23 00:59:57 UTC.

02462018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

19 sources
crossroadsguy·Oct 27, 2020
I believe notes (personal or professional) should be as protected and as private as it gets. At least e2e with open source clients. So while I appreciate you mentioning your business and financial aspirations, please remember the time when that, now famous, VR company had a kickstarter. Later - "journey thingie", "we have the same goals", "synergy" etc happened to them at Facebook. In fact, in the case of WhatsApp a poor cofounder wasn't even able to see what Facebook planned to do with WhatsApp, something almost everybody was able to see with their eyes closed, when they took the billions (happy for them). He is now a respected billionaire born again privacy crusader. Nice guy. On another note: personally I have been moving my notes to Standard Notes. nv -> nvAlt -> Apple Notes -> Simplenote -> Standard Notes (I wish these guys had nativ
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e apps). Bear is a solid app and I wanted to pay but they are not FOSS. I am also keeping an eye on https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes (native and promising). https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps#not... some more.
In Show HN: Personal CRM: Note taking, the way it should be
pololee·Feb 28, 2020
I've tried the following: - Evernote: didn't support markdown so gave it up - OneNote: UI is too much, like PowerPoint. It's not a text-based note app. - Quiver: https://happenapps.com/ I bought this app. It's great. I've been using it for a long time. But I gave it up when I found notion.so. Quiver doesn't allow me to sync multiple notebooks. Under each notebook, you cannot have a sub-notebook under a notebook (like a folder inside a folder). It doesn't support global search. - SimpleNote: bad UI. The render is buggy. - Notion.so: So far it's my favorite. But the desktop app is slow. Especially for work, I need to take a lot of quick notes. - Joplin: quickly tried but gave it up. Slow and bad UI. - Notable: https://github.com/notable/notable Nice, clean UI. The render is fast. A great feature of notable is that it has a "copy block" butt
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on for the code block. I love the feature. But the problem is I cannot use cmd + w to close the window, it always pops up a confirmation modal. (IMAO, modal is the worst UI ever invented on this planet.) No updates recently. I am willing to pay this app if a new version comes out. - Fsnotes: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes Nice, clean UI. But the render is buggy. - Bear App: https://bear.app/ Nice clean UI. But the weird thing is in all the other markdown I've used, "-" is for a list, "[]" is for a to-do list. But in Bear, "-" is for a to-do list, "*" is for a list. I ended up paying two apps, Notion for personal stuff, Bear for work.
In Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with sync
privateSFacct·Sep 26, 2019
For some perspective on apple "killing" developers. Apple is FLOODED with copycat crap apps - 10 different names etc etc. Seriously, the play store used to have lots more of these - maybe now cleaned up. But saying that apple needs to encourage this crap is silly. This is what was killing the play store. The guy complaining here has his "privacy policy" as follows: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes When someone who doesn't know git or github tries to read his privacy policy they have no chance. Why it this all apple's fault? I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for a privacy policy. One fix, developers should be able to pay $500 to have someone give them some training on what sections of app review guidelines they are breaking. Do 30 minutes to prep, spend an hour talking with them, then 30 minutes to wrap up. Someone has this ser
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vice - seriously - consider paying for some guidance if you don't want to read through the lengthy Apple stuff yourself. https://www.iosconsultant.com/services
In How Apple Kills Indie Developers

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