A simple Markdown note app with templates and PDF support
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A lightweight note-taking app built with Go + HTMX, featuring nested pages, templates, shared spaces, and OCR to make scanned PDFs searchable. The web app uses responsive design to make it scale to desktop or mobile.
HN · launched Dec 2, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: note-taking and writing apps · 264 launches, 27 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 264 launches in note-taking and writing apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward Go and HTMX CRUD note-taking app utilizing Tiptap in the frontend and standard OCR libraries for PDF text extraction.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Evernote, Confluence, Notion, Tesseract
Concerns raised: Poor handwriting recognition capability, Limited multi-language support
Feature requests: Improve handwriting OCR quality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 612 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #608 of 613 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Betelgeuse · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Paper Note · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- NoteGen · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PDF To Markdown · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Paragraph Notes · ph · 2026-09-26 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- A canvas-based note taking and organizer app · hn · 2026-07-19 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Free Notepad · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HydroMark · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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