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vnotex
vnote
C++2017–2026
vnotex / vnote

vnote

A pleasant note-taking platform with native speed, majoring in Markdown, MindMap, Typst, and plain text.

9Distinct people
16Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
13KGitHub stars
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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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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:02:26 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-08-22 14:01:42 UTC to 2026-06-29 13:11:15 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2019-01-01 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): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 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): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 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.

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 UTC312
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 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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 UTC220

What Hacker News says

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I’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.
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