Haptic is a new local-first & privacy-focused home for your markdown notes. It's a minimalistic, lightweight and fast note-taking app that's designed to be distraction-free.
Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad
An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.
What's the point of a note-taking app?
The true purpose of a note-taking app is to facilitate deep learning through three interconnected processes—externalizing ideas, internalizing them into new insights, and resurfacing them over time—and good design should minimize accidental friction while preserving the productive friction that enables genuine understanding.
outl — local-first markdown outliner & LLM second brain
Open-source bullet-point outliner. Plain markdown on disk (no UUIDs), peer-to-peer tree-CRDT sync that doesn't lose data when devices edit offline — your devices talk straight to each other, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud or third-party server holding your notes — and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT use your notes as a second brain. A modern Roam, Logseq and Obsidian alternative built in Rust.
Marker — Read with intention
A reading and annotation browser for iOS and Android. Select text, create highlights, attach notes, and keep annotations on device.
iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps
Plain text. Total focus. The Industry standard Markdown text editor. Available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows. Download it now, try it for free
Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…
Reflect
A beautifully minimalist note-taking app designed to mirror the way you think. Now with a native AI integration.
Craft — Productivity App for Notes, Tasks, and Docs
A free notes and productivity app that follows you across all your devices. Premium features available.
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Note taking apps
Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more
Let your thoughts sink in — Gravity
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
cybersemics/em
Wiki (by Boris) — Semble
self-hostable notion replacements (by Tyler Lawson) — Semble