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HelixNotes - a local markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) (helixnotes.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I built a note-taking app because the one I wanted didn't exist. Clean UI, local .md files, no cloud, no account.

Built with Rust + Tauri 2.0 + SvelteKit. Full-text search powered by Tantivy. Graph view, AI writing tools (bring your own key), Obsidian import, version history.

Available for Linux (AppImage, APT, AUR), Windows, and macOS. Source: https://codeberg.org/ArkHost/HelixNotes

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

Never worked with any note taking apps except for Vim with customized snippets and rudamentary helper scripts.

While such an app seems very appealing, I haven't seen any of them featuring the useful stuff, such as pluggable editor (in my case Vim or NeoVim), template support (day journal, meeting, README etc...), rendered fields (e.g.: today, author, or arbitrary values), support for pandoc rendering, doc metadata management (tags, keywords, related docs, links) or markers in text eg. @TODO etc... (idea being to aut. create lists of paragraps with such markers)

What's the point of a note taking app that provides help with editing single docs and maybe with rendering to HTML, but doesn't help organizing and remembering stuff?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago

    Different use case. HelixNotes is for people who want a clean, simple note-taking app that works out of the box - not a customizable text processing pipeline. If Vim snippets work for you, stick with that. Not every tool needs to be for everyone.

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