Nice product and website. Your homepage uses a lot of passive voice. Personally I think changing it to active voice makes the product sound more appealing.

"your notes will always be" -> "your notes are always" "content will be synced" -> "content is synced"

"note will be periodically synced" -> "notes are periodically synced" "You can use it for managing personal tasks..." -> "Manage your personal tasks..."

"You can choose between light and dark" -> "Choose between light and dark"

It seems the creator has been a senior SWE at Microsoft for 7 years now.

It genuinely astounds me that as a solo dev he can make such a featureful app yet Microsoft the company has been failing hard in this realm for the last decade.

Also it makes you wonder how many UI-design teams, product owners, and middle managers are entirely obsolete next to a single competent SWE with a bit of talent for UI/UX.

I will definitely check this out. I love that syncing can be self-hosted, that it supports LaTeX for math, and even music notation. The one additional thing I would love in a text-based note-taking app is some kind of mind-mapping software. I still have an old copy of Mindnode on my Mac, and there are times where it is the perfect solution. I am a little disappointed that the Linux story is weak.

Oh I like the web version! I just hooked up the web app to my _public_ blog repo, and started editing the markdown files. Hit save and it automatically performs a git commit on my behalf. Perfect. Next time I'm working on the files locally, all I need is a git pull and I am good to go. I like it.

Although I didnt quite like that it asked for a permission to pretty much _everything_ in Githuhb - public and private repos, deploykeys?!, everything. I wish that were customisable. It was okay for me because I dont keep any non public code in Github, but others might have..

Fantastic app, good, clean design, and a very useful use-case. I can see myself using it.

However, a few questions:

1. Can I self-host it? If so, how? 2. Can I connect to a "private" Github repo? (I dont want my personal notes publicly viewable, unless I choose so) 3. What's the pricing model? Wasn't entirely clear.

Thanks!!

It looks like the keyboard shortcut Cmd-L conflicts with Arc browser in the web app.

Looks great otherwise!

Are there plans for plugins and so forth ala obsidian? For instance, it would be great to have a daily/monthly/quarterly/yearly note and what not.

People seem interested in this. But I still wonder what is the advantage over Obsidian.

I have grown to love markdown in the past year. It is just expressive enough without being burdensomely complex. I appreciate the ability to switch between WYSIWYG and plain text editing modes to achieve precision. In contrast to pure-WYSIWYG editors like Google Docs, the formatting can’t get totally hosed in markdown because you can always dip under the hood and fix stuff.

I just wish every rich text editor had accessible markdown…

I have been an Evernote, then Notion and now a Jopplin user. A feature I used a lot in these apps is the browser extension that allows me to quickly bookmark a web page into a note. Would you consider such a feature?

Useful product. Are you planning to add integration with self-hosted Gitlab?

There are a few typos on the site you might want to review: https://triplechecker.com/s/259685/about.noteshub.app?v=rLAc...

This is a really nice product. The web version reminds me of Prose [^1], which introduced the concept of writing in a GitHub repo online since 2013.

For those asking about the advantages of NotesHub over Obsidian, this app offers a web version—a feature I have long wished Obsidian would provide.

[1]: https://github.com/prose/prose

Can you share a bit about the tech behind this? Are the desktop apps electron apps or something else?

Thx!

I'm a big fan of iA Writer - it basically does everything I need. The best part is its clean interface - just a white screen and cursor.

Markdown based with HTML templates to allow for different appearance when converted to PDF. It also has cross references to other files, so that long documents can be broken down into separate files.

It doesn't have all the features that NotesHub has - hats off to that and I hope NotesHub becomes a success.

Looks great, just wish it had end-to-end-encryption.

I made a quite similar app with some other features that are a personal must-have which this one lacks.

Looks nice, but what advantage it has over Obsidian or Zettlr? Maybe Obsidian is more expensive but Zettlr is free and also FOSS.

It seems like you re-use the code from the web app to create the hybrid mobile apps.

Which tool / framework do you use to achieve this?

I am on a Macbook where I'm not signed in with an Apple ID (let alone my own), can I buy the app for my private devices and install it somehow on my work Macbook?

Hey, awesome, clean Material design!

Are notes held on disk unencrypted?

A) Wow this is just incredibly impressive for a solo dev - well done! The feature list just keeps going and going, by the time I got to kanban boards I was in disbelief. I was incredibly dubious based on the title that any “Show HN” could rival Obsidian, but i think I stand corrected!

I sadly use my own hand-rolled markdown system way too often to really switch, but I’ll definitely have to check this out for an on-the-go replacement for Google Keep.

B) “offline first” is a great feature, but I’m curious why you didn’t go with the terms hear more often, “local first”? Just wanted something more accessible to laypeople?

C) “offline first” seems hard to match up with “progressive web app” — not from any sort of user perspective (sounds ideal, even!), just in terms of technical implementation. Am I correct in assuming that the iOS and android versions are PWAs, and that they still durably store files on device? If so, how hard was that?

D) “all major platforms: iOS/macOS/Android/Windows” made me shed a brief tear. It’s ~~infrastructure~~ Linux Week, time to add a platform!!

Best of luck and thanks for sharing your work. I look forward to meeting you on top of the world one day ;)

Do you have a self-hosting version?

what is the license? Always free? One day might cost you?

Thanks ! Wonderful alternative to gitjournal.

Is the source code available anywhere, by chance? I’m curious how it was built.

Anyone got a good tutorial on switching from Evernote?

I don't get why iOS doesn't have filesystem notebooks on the comparison table.

The website leans hard on "fully cross-platform" for a program that clearly isn't.

What does native (hybrid) mean?

This looks good, but in order for me to try this it would need vi support and a Linux install option.

I keep my todos in markdown checklist boxes. I generate a dayplan with chatgpt and I ask for output in markdown. Just copy and paste it. I now use typora.. but I'll check out your app later.

Just out of curiosity is this a Flutter app and if so how did you find the experience of using it to develop a cross platform app?

Anotha one

This might be an unpopular take, but I'm tired of all these Markdown text editors. It almost feels like a cop-out at this point. Ever since text editors started supporting Markdown, we've gotten away from all of these great rich-text editors. Apple Notes is an example of a notetaking application "done right", albeit with fewer features. It's enjoyable to use and offers good UI for attaching files. It certainly is not without its flaws, however. Obsidian gets really close. I bet the devs could go all the way.

I want something WYSIWYG-like, without dealing with the underlying mechanisms... give me rich-text on the front and save the file in Markdown behind the scenes. I hardly care, as long as there is a robust export option built-in.

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