HelixNotes — Local-First Markdown Notes
helixnotes.com
A local-first markdown note-taking app. Your notes stay on your machine. No cloud, no lock-in.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43147928

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

    • ArkHost@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      1 month ago

      vs Obsidian: Same local-first philosophy with plain .md files, but HelixNotes gives you a clean WYSIWYG editor out of the box. No plugin setup, no CSS tweaking, no learning curve. Open an app, write, close it. vs Joplin: Joplin uses its own database format internally. HelixNotes stores everything as plain markdown files in folders on your filesystem. Also Tauri instead of Electron, so much lower resource usage. Both are great projects. I built HelixNotes because I wanted UpNote’s UI with Obsidian’s philosophy, and that combination didn’t exist.

      I wrote a longer comparison here: https://helixnotes.com/why-i-built-helixnotes.html

      • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yeah, but in Joplin you can hit export and then it exports your note hierarchy as folders and markdown files.

  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 month ago

    I’d appreciate something like this, but for smartphones. Or, in other words, I’m looking for an Obsidian replacement. So far, I’m satisfied with Obsidian, but I don’t like it being not open source, so things can change any day. Also, to my taste, it’s too bloated. Personally, I need only the couple of functions. Sometimes I think I’d write it myself, maybe. One day. But I’m still hopeful someone else would at least start it :)

    • ArkHost@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 month ago

      You just described why I built HelixNotes. Clean, simple, open source (AGPL-3.0), no bloat. Desktop is ready, give it a try. Mobile is on the roadmap once the desktop experience is solid.

    • ArkHost@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      Not yet, but it’s on the roadmap. The app is still young, right now I’m focused on getting the desktop experience solid based on feedback before shifting to mobile.

  • gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    I might be missing something here but I don’t understand what this has to do with the topic of Linux? Sure you can install on Linux, but that’s not really a topic about Linux

    • ArkHost@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      Built with Tauri on Linux, available as AppImage, AUR, and APT package. Thought it was relevant for Linux users looking for a native note-taking app.

      • gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        1 month ago

        Tauri is a cross platform framework and not something specific to the Linux operating systems as per the first rule of this community

        “Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.”

        Again I might be wrong, and apologies if I am, but the relevance of this post is extremely weak.