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Notable: The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

Liana Felt (she/her) on December 28, 2018

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Martin Beierling-Mutz • • Edited

Thanks for sharing, I was looking for a markdown based note taking app. Always great to see polished open source solutions.

Personally, I still use Workflowy for almost all of my note taking. I love that it's limited to lists, but some things need more formatting. In these cases I rather reach for Markdown than GDrive or MS Office.

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Florimond Manca • • Edited

I just gave this a shot yesterday. It is indeed a very-well designed app!

However, I decided to stick to MacDown because:

  • It is faster to load and feels much lighter overall (Electron is a turn off for me here).
  • It has LaTeX support, which I absolutely need for my lecture notes (although it seems Notable has that on master).
  • It doesn't make any assumption as to where and how you store your notes, or even whether you sync them. I'm used to just dropping plain Markdown files in well-named Dropbox folders, and that has worked very well for me. Having a sidebar with tags and menus and categories etc may do it for some, but that's too much for me. And if I want mobile edits, I just do so on the Dropbox app (which has Markdown preview built-in).
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Antonio Radovcic •

Thanks! Good job! I'm also working on an Electron-App with TS currently, and this code seems readable and useful to study.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him) •

There are quite a few of these out there (of varying quality). I'll give this one a look, thanks for sharing!

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Liana Felt (she/her) •

This one seems quite polished so far.

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀 •

This is a great app thanks for sharing. I am looking to replace .txt notes with markdown notes and this looks very easy to use.

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Jamal Al •

I was actually just about to start working on making one myself but now..

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bdbch •

Looks really good! Thanks for sharing!

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Stephen Chiang •

I really enjoy notion.so it's markdown but with additional features that make it really fast for me to enter a new item. It's the first app that has a mobile version I use easily.

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Mike Wheaton •

Looks good! I've been using Bear, which has similar functionality, for a little over a year now and am very happy with it.