CLUSTER NOTE-MARKDOWN-NOTES · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-11-18
Markdown notebook note-taking apps
This cluster consists of note-taking applications that store notes as plain-text markdown files, organize content into notebooks with folders, tags, icons, and colors, and offer features like rich-text editing, search, and cross-note linking. The five dated entries appear singly across February 2020, February 2023, August 2024, November 2024, and March 2026, showing a thin, irregular timeline with multi-year gaps. The traction leaders—Marknote, Folio, and Notes—each show zero activity signals, so none stands out as dominant.
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 · 2 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby · 1 commercial · 10 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01octarine-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceNote-taking app that saves notes as Markdown, giving users control over their own data and offline availability.
- 02notion-clone0★4 dayslivehobbyNote-taking appthat provides a block-based editor for writing and organizing rich-text notes, similar to Notion.
- 03abstract-editor0★18 daysliveopen sourceMarkdown note-taking editor that stores all notes locally on the user's computer for private writing and organization.
- 04Obsidian - Connected Notes0★2 molivecommercialNote-taking app that organizes markdown files into a personal knowledge base with linked notes, a graph view, and plugin customization.
- 05inkdrop0★2 moliveopen sourceNote-taking application built around a markdown editor that helps individuals organize and manage personal notes.
- 06gumbo-19-notepad-clone0★1 mo—hobbyA note-taking tool that lets users circle and annotate text, enhancing the editing experience for personal notes.
- 07Folio0★6 moliveopen sourceMarkdown note-taking app with notebook organization, search, text formatting, and cross-note linking for writers and students.
- 08Marknote0★4 moliveopen sourceNote-taking application that lets users create rich text notes and organize them into notebooks with customizable icons and colors, storing notes as Markdown files.
- 09Letslearn0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceNote-taking application with markdown formatting, code syntax highlighting and search for organizing personal study notes.
- 10Paper0★unknownlivehobbyNote-taking app that lets users create notebooks and write formatted notes in markdown with customizable organization.
- 11Marknote0★unknownliveopen sourceNote-taking application that organizes rich text notes into customizable notebooks with icons and colors, saving files as markdown.
- 12VNote0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceNote-taking application that stores notebooks as plain-text files with folders and tags, offering markdown editing, live preview, and diagram support.
- 13yana-bin0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop note-taking application that organizes notes hierarchically, supports full-text search, and includes a rich-text editor with code snippet formatting.
- 14haptic-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMarkdown note-taking application that lets people write, organize, and store personal notes and documents in one place.
- 15MindForger0★unknownliveMarkdown editor and thinking notebook that organizes private notes, ideas, and plans as personal knowledge management.
- 16Marked Notes0★unknownliveNotes application that lets users create, edit, and organize markdown-formatted notes.
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.