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 · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 1 commercial · 18 open source · 1 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.
- 81Notorious0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceKeyboard-centric notes app that saves automatically to a local folder and supports Markdown syntax highlighting.
- 82Joplin0★29 daysliveopen sourceOpen source note-taking and to-do application for organizing notes into notebooks with search, tags, sync, and web clipping.
- 83printnotes-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for taking and organizing markdown notes across platforms, modeled after note-taking apps like Google Keep and Obsidian.
- 84KleverNotes0★5 molivehand-codedopen sourceNote-taking application for mobile and desktop that manages notes with markdown support and content preview for personal organization.
- 85silverbullet0★6 moliveopen sourceA Markdown-based note-taking and writing application that stores notes locally and provides an editor interface.
- 86MWeb - Markdown Writing, Notes0★5 molivehand-codedcommercialMarkdown-focused writing and note-taking app with a full editor, document management, and publishing features.
- 87jotpad0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceMinimal desktop note-taking application that renders live markdown formatting for a single ongoing note.
- 88Foqos: Zen Note Taking0★7 mostaleliveNote-taking app with markdown support and minimal interface for focused writing.
- 89Notes0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceMobile notebook app that saves notes as markdown text files with media embedding, map display, sharing, and zip backup support.
- 90Quillpad0★1 moliveopen sourceOpen-source note-taking app with markdown support, task lists, reminders, and Nextcloud sync for personal organization.
- 91Logseq0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceNote-taking app that organizes personal knowledge as a local-first, non-linear outliner using plain-text markdown or org-mode files.
- 92notnative-app-bin0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceNote-taking app with Vim-style keybindings, built-in AI chat, smart tagging, and an extensible tool server for organizing notes.
- 93TextTL0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceApp for writing and viewing timeline-style memos stored as plain text files, syncable via external tools.
- 94WriteOn: Simple Notepad0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceNote-taking app with Markdown support, backup, flashcards, and Material You design.
- 95Journalize0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceJournaling app with markdown rendering, geo-stamping, tags, search, and automatic list continuation for quick entries.
- 96mdx-notes-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCross-platform note-taking application that formats notes into layouts for public social media articles using a markdown-based syntax.
- 97xilinota-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceNote-taking app that syncs across devices and stores notes as Markdown files.
- 98Diary0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile app for writing dated journal entries in plain text with markdown formatting, media attachments, maps, and calendar integration.
- 99scroll0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceExtensible markup language for structured note-taking and document authoring.
- 100norka0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceNote-taking app with Markdown support designed for the Pantheon desktop environment.
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.