CLUSTER MARKDOWN-NOTE-NOTES · 121 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-05-10
Markdown note-taking apps
This cluster contains 99 similar products centered on Markdown-based note-taking and knowledge management, spanning desktop, mobile, web, and command-line apps. The dated entries (before the index began in 2026-08) appear sporadically from 2011 onward, with a gradual increase in frequency in 2024-2026, but no dramatic spike; many members (13) have no source date. The products with the strongest traction signals are ForeJot (101 stars), pane (55 stars), and kankan-shoucang (35 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 6 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 16 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 61qnote0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop note editor with Markdown support, PDF export, OCR, and version history.
- 62Bookup0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceA note-taking app that uses Markdown to help users capture and organize notes efficiently.
- 63n34260★5 moliveopen sourceA personal vault app for organizing markdown notes and media with a neon visual theme.
- 64hugvi0★5 moliveopen sourceNote-taking app for programmers that writes notes using Markdown syntax.
- 65vnote0★4 moliveopen sourceNote-taking application with Vim-style editing and organization features for Markdown notes.
- 66Take Notes - cute note app0★8 mostaleliveLightweight notepad and whiteboard app for quick drafts, sketches, calculations, and handwritten notes with pencil support.
- 67traymd0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop system tray application for writing and organizing lightweight markdown notes.
- 68overflow-notes0★2 mo—hand-codedindieNative HarmonyOS note-taking app with Markdown editing, card export, and customizable themes.
- 69Simplenote0★11 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceNote-taking app that syncs notes across devices, organizes them with tags, and lets users preview, publish, or share markdown notes for collaboration.
- 70Markdownr0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApp that converts web pages to Markdown and shares the content to note-taking apps for saving articles.
- 71newpad-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA desktop note-taking app for writing and organizing Markdown documents.
- 72folio0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMarkdown note-taking app for the GNOME desktop, forked from Paper.
- 73onote-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMarkdown note-taking application that edits notes from local and SSH data sources.
- 74Open Markdown Notes (OMN)0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid note-taking app that edits and displays Markdown notes as HTML pages with support for JavaScript, CSS, and URL bookmarks.
- 75Notable0★unknownliveMarkdown-based note-taking application that stores notes as local files and supports math expressions, diagrams, and multiple themes.
- 76docflow0★unknownlivehobbyDesktop template and note manager that stores markdown documents, snippets, and dynamic placeholders across local or shared databases.
- 77Markdown Widget0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceHome-screen widget that displays the content of markdown files, useful for showing notes and documents from note-taking apps.
- 78notementum0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceNative Markdown notebook app for creating and managing structured notes.
- 79Noteless0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app for writing and organizing Markdown notes with tags, full-text search, attachments, and customizable themes.
- 80notable-bin0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceNote-taking app that stores notes as Markdown files and organizes them.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.