HThtfy96·Jun 29, 2026Submission
VNote: A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++
5 points · Open discussionvnotex
vnote
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vnotex / vnote
vnote
A pleasant note-taking platform with native speed, majoring in Markdown, MindMap, Typst, and plain text.
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What it is
A pleasant note-taking platform with native speed, majoring in Markdown, MindMap, Typst, and plain text.
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I recently discovered VNote: https://github.com/tamlok/vnote Works great for me so far. Its QT based and uses plain Markdown files. Notes are organized in notebooks with…
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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16 sourcesVNote, a Qt-based, free and open source note-taking application
2 points · Open discussionGitHub – vnotex/vnote: A pleasant note-taking platform
3 points · Open discussion> Zettlr is powered by Electron,
Uh, I would prefer VNote editor + Viki instead.
[0] https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
[1] https://github.com/tamlok/viki
In Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishingFor the last half a year or so I've been using VNote: https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
I was really surprised when I discovered it, as I've been looking for the "perfect" note-taking system for a while and VNote was never mentioned. It checks all my boxes: in-place preview of markdown, is open source, automatically copies images to your notes directory, has ability to add file attachments, is customizable with different themes, is programmer-friendly (has VIM-mode), and it's native (no Electron!) And it looks great with the dark theme. It doesn't lock you in to its software as in the end, it's just markdown files and media files.
It doesn't have Zettelkasten support, but it does do tagging and its search capabilities are comprehensive (includes regex search.)
I am not affiliated with the project -- just a happy user :)
In Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing> Obsidian is a powerful front-end for your knowledge, like an IDE for your notes.
Could you describe Obsidian's pros'n'cons in comparison to VNote[0] + Viki[1]?
[0] https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
[1] https://github.com/tamlok/viki
In Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown filesI’m currently using Vnote https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/ after trying Typora and other Markdown editors. What I like about Vnote is it is based on Qt and has most of the functions from Typora plus Vim mode, a lot of keyboard shortcuts, good search capacity across different notebooks (which basically folders and sub folders containing markdown files), and some extensions like MathJax, Flowchart, Mermaid. Vnote (and Typora) supports defining folders for images or attachments (relative or absolute path). Even though it does not have a kind of webcliper extension for browser like Joplin, you can copy the content of a webpage and paste it directly into Vnote (also Typora), it can reformat the content as markdown and copy the associated images to the defined folder. I used Joplin before and still like it a lot but recently switched to Vnote a
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nd version-control the notes with git. For that, I can "sync" the content of my notebooks using git across different devices (for iOS, I use Working Copy as a git client and it can render the markdown notes with images). Vnote needs to store the structure of your notebook and other metadata such as tags in JSON files. You do need to have those JSON files otherwise Vnote will not display the tree of your notebooks. But basically you can use other editors to open Vnote notebooks because they are just folders and markdown files.
Checkout vnote, found it today actually.. checks all the boxes. Seems pretty good and built using c++ https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
In I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 yearsI recently discovered VNote:
https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
Works great for me so far. Its QT based and uses plain Markdown files. Notes are organized in notebooks with (sub-)folders. Some of the features on top of this are tagging, full text search, reader-mode, vim key-bindings, attachments, MathJax, PlantUML, and Mermaid.js support.
In Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?Show HN: VNote 2.0 – PlantUML editing via Preview Tunnel
49 points · Open discussionThere are many fully FREE & opensource tools
VNote[0] for all desktops (Linux, Windows, macOS), that discussed[1] on HN too.
Markor[2] for Android, already available on F-Droid[3].
[0] http://github.com/tamlok/vnote
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821
[2] https://github.com/gsantner/markor
[3] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/
In Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes> Too bad it's electron.
Thank You for the TL;DR. Hate it too ;-)
I currently migrate from ghostwriter[0] to VNote[1] (both are Qt-based). VNote look very nice, but some refactoring needed + some features (that I'm waiting for) still missed. Hope, VNote development will be active, as it's developer[2] promised on HN[3].
[0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter
[1] https://github.com/tamlok/vnote
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tamlok
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821
In Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platformYou can see them on github:
https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/tree/master/screenshots
In Show HN: VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking appNice and simple job!
Guys that do not want an extra preview panel could take a look at VNote(https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/).
In Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)Why not give VNote(https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/) a try? :)
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