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Anno is a thin user interface on Markdown files for easy and local text editing, organization, and portability.

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What it is

Anno is a thin user interface on Markdown files for easy and local text editing, organization, and portability.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

(1) For note taking I stumbled across anno[1] via[2] two weeks ago. It's a python flask application which you run on your localhost. You write markdown which gets stored…

klft used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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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, 3:56:07 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 week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-01-13 16:00:58 UTC to 2020-08-19 10:24:25 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 132020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 272020-05-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 17

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
Jan 132020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 202020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 272020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 32020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 102020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 172020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 242020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 92020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 162020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 62020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 132020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 202020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 272020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-04 00:00:00 UTC000
May 42020-05-04 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-11 00:00:00 UTC000
May 112020-05-11 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-18 00:00:00 UTC000
May 182020-05-18 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-25 00:00:00 UTC000
May 252020-05-25 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 12020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 82020-06-08 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 152020-06-15 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 222020-06-22 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 292020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 62020-07-06 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 132020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 202020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 272020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 32020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 102020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 172020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
gwgundersen·Jan 27, 2020
This sounds a lot like a tool I built for myself [1], sans the database. I agree that Markdown + Katex with a local server seems like the right move for most technical people. Lots of things like encryption, backups, and basic text search can be done via other Unix tools. I also agree that the big win is owning your data long-term, even if you get tired of maintaining the software. [1] https://github.com/gwgundersen/anno
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klft·Jan 27, 2020Recommendation phrase
(1) For note taking I stumbled across anno[1] via[2] two weeks ago. It's a python flask application which you run on your localhost. You write markdown which gets stored locally as file and is rendered as html using pandoc[3]. It's really basic but I love it. (2) For physical documents I use a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500[4] for scanning. A runtime-licencse of ABBYY FineReader for OCR is included. The resulting PDF has embedded text which I extract using pdftotext[5]. I wrote a python application to search and tag this documents. It loads all the text in-memory which is perfecty fine as I have < 10,000 documents. I use it since 5 years and it works OK. [1] https://github.com/gwgundersen/anno [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033792 [3] https://pandoc.org/ [4] https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/peripheral... [5] https://e
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