CLUSTER NOTES-TERMINAL-CAPTURING · 17 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-07-22
Terminal note-taking apps
This cluster comprises terminal-based applications for note-taking, knowledge management, and organization, including Markdown notebooks, hierarchical outliners, and tools for research paper annotation. The dated entries (9 pre-index) appear sporadically, with a lone 2009 entry, a 2016 entry, then a concentration of four in early 2021, followed by singles in 2025 and 2026. Traction leaders are markora, notedog, and papr-bin, all with zero stars, indicating minimal activity.
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 · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 15 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 17 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01markora0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based Markdown notebook and todo app for organizing quick notes and tasks from the command line.
- 02slate-bin0★10 daysliveopen sourceTerminal note-taking scratchpad for capturing and organizing notes quickly using keyboard-only controls.
- 03notedog0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based notes application for capturing and organizing notes across platforms.
- 04notion-plus-plus0★1 molivehand-codedhobbyExtensible collaborative note-taking platform with visual scripting, state-machine diagrams, reusable modules, and structured communities.
- 05notema-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based Markdown journaling app for writing and organizing personal notes.
- 06tpaper-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based note-taking app that organizes notes using buffers and blocks.
- 07notahub0★3 moliveopen sourceKeyboard-driven terminal application that helps users organize their projects and ideas by storing them as plain markdown files for easy retrieval.
- 08tnote0★4 moliveopen sourceNote-taking application for the terminal that allows users to create and manage notes from the command line.
- 09noted0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal note-taking application with a text-based user interface for capturing and organizing notes.
- 10toney0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based note-taking app designed for developers.
- 11thoth0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal scratchpad inspired by Heynote for taking quick notes and keeping persistent workspace.
- 12fuzzynote0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based note-taking app that stores notes locally and supports collaborative editing.
- 13appnotex0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based note-taking app that lets users quickly record and manage notes without leaving their Linux environment.
- 14zoho-notebook0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceNote-taking application for Linux that lets users capture text notes, checklists, sketches, audio recordings, and file attachments.
- 15ideaseed0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based note-taking application that captures ideas quickly and routes them to user-selected destinations.
- 16tines0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceHierarchical console-based outliner, planner, and notebook for organizing notes and plans.
- 17Notepad Application0★unknownliveai-builtWeb-based notepad application for creating, editing, and saving text notes in a simple interface.
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