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VB Notes

Markdown notes in your own folder, searched by meaning

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A free, open-source notes app for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. Every note is a plainmd file in a folder you choose, edited in a Bear-style editor with nested tags. Search by meaning runs on the device, offline. No account.

PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views

Niche: note-taking and writing apps · 264 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Search & retrieval
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • Notes
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes A markdown notes editor with folder-based storage is standard UI work, and on-device semantic search can use off-the-shelf small embedding models that run offline. Multi-platform packaging is laborious but routine with cross-platform frameworks.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 525 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #29 of 526 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.

  • blocks · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • Plainkeep · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Noteline · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • inkwell - Write without distraction. · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Lorem · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Notes by Halo · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Paragraph Notes · ph · 2026-09-26 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Branchnote · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58

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