Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
- Free • Proprietary
- Note-taking
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
Recent user activities on Notable
- nkhuw reviewed NotablenkI absolutely love this app, I practically live inside of it. A few things to know: (1) You must get the beta edition: it's 2 light-years ahead in development compared to the 1.84 version on webpage. https://github.com/notable/notable-insiders/releases The developer is incredibly responsive (I've suggested features that he's released hours later!) but also a bit of a design freak and a perfectionist who does not want to release with fanfare until he feels it's ready. But this app kills. (2) clean intelligent design minimalism on the surface but extremely powerful under the hood. (3) There's a command scripting language with >700 commands, very much like vscode. That means you can remap any shortcut and do things that other apps can only do via plugins. (3) other cool features: drag and drop tagging; multi-note batch edit mode; great code-formatting, katex support, many options for text based diagrams; powerful boolean search and tag filters; export/import to many formats; quickly switch between collections of notes; multi-window support, multiple and persistent tabs; absolutely customizable via simple scripting language, CSS, javascript. Soon to come plugins. This is the vscode of markdown editors in terms of power (but designed to be a much more pleasant to use). Love this app.
- nkhuw Upvoted a comment on NotablenkVery clean and beautiful interface. Everything can be done from the keyboard. The hierarchical tags are a unique feature and help a lot organizing your notes. Since it uses a well-known renderer for Github-flavored markdown text, your notes can contain diagrams, tables, emojis and syntax-highlighted source code. There are only two things which I miss: spell-checking, and having multiple notes folders as for instance VNote supports them. The latter are handled by Notable through hierarchical tags in the "Notebooks/*" namespace. Still all notes go into a single directory. I would like them to be physically separated in the file system because it would make it easier to for instance separate work-related notebooks from private ones. This is a minor complaint compared to the overall great tools Notable is!
- J0y added Notable as alternative(s) to Witful
Very clean and beautiful interface. Everything can be done from the keyboard. The hierarchical tags are a unique feature and help a lot organizing your notes. Since it uses a well-known renderer for Github-flavored markdown text, your notes can contain diagrams, tables, emojis and syntax-highlighted source code.
There are only two things which I miss: spell-checking, and having multiple notes folders as for instance VNote supports them. The latter are handled by Notable through hierarchical tags in the "Notebooks/*" namespace. Still all notes go into a single directory. I would like them to be physically separated in the file system because it would make it easier to for instance separate work-related notebooks from private ones. This is a minor complaint compared to the overall great tools Notable is!
The latest releases do have spell checking, powerful boolean search and filters, allow for quick switching between notes directories, and do scan for folders under the notes/ directory. Developer has discussed plans to address some (perhaps not all) those concerns about location of notes. https://github.com/notable/notable-insiders/releases
Reply written 6 days ago
I started using it as an alternative to CherryTree. If you like Markdown then this is notepad for you.
Project is actively developed, everything works fine and it is easy to sync notes using eg. Google Drive or like in my case personal NAS (Synology).
The app itself is quite good but unfortunately the project quality is very low:
Strongly disagree. The developer is a prolific contributor to improving open-source projects with contributions to dozens of important projects and vs code extensions. I've found him very responsive and open about his intents. Chat with him over the discord channel. He works very hard on the app and has dropped everything in his life to develop it. He's very straightforward and honest about the fact that this is no longer open-source, but sure he may lose patience with people like you who ask him, after 2+ years of 24/7 development and something like 3500 commits since the start of the project, why he doesn't just give it all away for free and then offer him a lecture on open sourcing (!). Get the latest release at https://github.com/notable/notable-insiders/releases and join the productive discussion on discord.
Reply written 6 days ago
I absolutely love this app, I practically live inside of it. A few things to know:
(1) You must get the beta edition: it's 2 light-years ahead in development compared to the 1.84 version on webpage. https://github.com/notable/notable-insiders/releases
The developer is incredibly responsive (I've suggested features that he's released hours later!) but also a bit of a design freak and a perfectionist who does not want to release with fanfare until he feels it's ready. But this app kills.
(2) clean intelligent design minimalism on the surface but extremely powerful under the hood.
(3) There's a command scripting language with >700 commands, very much like vscode. That means you can remap any shortcut and do things that other apps can only do via plugins.
(3) other cool features: drag and drop tagging; multi-note batch edit mode; great code-formatting, katex support, many options for text based diagrams; powerful boolean search and tag filters; export/import to many formats; quickly switch between collections of notes; multi-window support, multiple and persistent tabs; absolutely customizable via simple scripting language, CSS, javascript. Soon to come plugins.
This is the vscode of markdown editors in terms of power (but designed to be a much more pleasant to use). Love this app.
Simple but powerful
A brill little piece of software. Just what I was looking for!
It takes a while to get used to, and it can be a bit frustrating at times, especially if you don't know Markdown very well. Thankfully there is a little cheat sheet in the menus!
There are some things that are a bit annoying, like no mobile apps or syncing, but the developers are promising this, so hopefully it will get even better!
Clean and efficient note application. Rendering is very nice and as I am a Markdown’s fan, it’s a pleasure to use it.
The +: Markdown, tags, favorites, saves on cloud
The -: you need to edit/save the notes. You lose a little time compared to some other applications.
A nice alternative to ResophNotes for me.