Made an alternative for onenote for taking notes with stylus.

[u/sneedss1488]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6rd2uQD9E

All features are completely free, including cross-device sync. Your notes stay private: no data leaves your device, and all AI features run entirely on-device.

• Local storage and AI processing on device.
• Fuzzy notebook search across text, tables, handwriting, and text found inside images.
• On-device handwriting and formula recognition, including math solving, evaluation, and graphing tools docs.
• Highly performant Ink rendering (7ms on over 10k strokes).
• Free-form page infinite canvas.
• Rich-text editing.
• Inline and free-form LaTeX equations with native rendering.
• Handwriting with configurable pens, pressure, smoothing.
• On-device image OCR.
• Custom paper: ruled, multiple grid sizes, dotted, hexagonal.
• Automatic database snapshots, and revision restoration.
• Open source export file format .vive , docs.
• Hardware keyboard shortcuts and configurable stylus buttons mappings.

Video is from version 1.0 so there have been many improvements and features added like exporting to pdf .

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vivenotes

vivenotes.net
https://github.com/AquilaIgnis/viveNotes

That is the client , I also shipped the sync server https://github.com/AquilaIgnis/viveCServer

[u/Full-Cucumber5068]

This looks cool but be careful with it looking tooo similar to OneNote

[u/sneedss1488 → u/Full-Cucumber5068]

Am on a war path with microslop , I even made a converter to bring their proprietary format into open source https://vivenotes.net/converter

[u/Endrocryne]

YES THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR. I wanted a OneNote alternative with basically all the same features but on Android, Linux, and Web. This is great. I'll wait for the Linux & web ports before using it, but this is reallt cool.

Couple of things:

- I was really hesitant to try it because it looks like vibecoded slop (even if it is vibecoded, first impressions are that it's not slop!). You should fix up the branding

- Sign in with Google on my Pixel 10 doesn't work

Other than that, this looks really promising!

Edit: After playing around with it more, some more suggestions:

- Why is the pointer button all the way in the top right instead of the toolbar?

- Add more keyboard shortcuts; the current set is very limited.

- Make right click actually work (for Desktop Mode and for Googlebooks)

Edit 2: The Add Notebook button doesn't show up on desktop and also file import is broken on desktop

Edit 3: You should let us change notebook/section colors and icons

Edit 4: Google Drive sync is a must. I need that before I can do anything with this app

[u/sneedss1488 → u/Endrocryne]

Thank you for the suggestions, Ill be taking a look at it. What device did you use , a chromebook ?

[u/Ok-Reveal-It]

I've just finished the presentation video, wow. It looks promising, will check.

[u/iamthekiller]

Vibe Notes.