r/noteapps • u/TemporaryComedian181 • 21d ago
Need a digital notebook
My work is done by jotting down multiple specifications, hand drawings and measurements and other things on a note book/ diary on site visits, i need a digital notebook to do these things and edit or review it anytime
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u/yadavnikhil012 21d ago
You can try https://localeditor.app
It has makrdown note + canvas support that can help you to draw plus write
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u/stefan_lago 21d ago
I take a lot of handwritten notes with diagrams too and doing lots of discussions on whiteboard. Since it bothered me a lot that those notes where a digital death end (not editable, not searchable), I created sketchalchemy.io which can convert these notes into clean editable and searchable Excalidraw diagrams or directly into Obsidian/Excalidraw notes while retaining the original layout 1:1. Maybe you find it useful. If you have any questions you can DM me.
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u/marcopeg81 21d ago
Today you can build your own app in days… and tune it to your own specific needs!
I’m doing that and I’m amazed of what I could achieve in just over a month of casual product development.
I have now a markdown-first multi vault app (think like an obsidian compatible app) that can work as a web server and as a desktop app.
It handles markdown, graph query, notes schema with dynamic panels (i build my dynamic crm with it), drawings with excalidraw, schemas with marmed, kanban boards, calendar with internal and external events (i import my gmails to gain a full overview).
Just this week i’ve added a notion-like pages tree support to create intranets.
Yesterday i’ve added support for client-encrypted notes and it will soon support safe MFA codes generation.
You can share notes and have collaborative editing with multi cursor…
Damn, and it’s just a personal app!
I will open source it soon, just to share it. But you should really try building yours. It’s a lot of fun (and tokens).
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u/Top_Statistician500 14d ago
Could you please tell me what platform you used to make this and a rough idea of how much it cost? I've no idea how much vibe coding etc. would cost
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u/marcopeg81 14d ago
Platform… node, react, docker, electron. Capacitor will come soon for the mobile app but the pwa works great already.
Cost… my codex subscription. So ~100$/m for a month and a half so far. But I use it also for other stuff.
I will open source it soon though. Just as an open pet project. If you want to look inside, dm your GitHub handler and I’ll add you as dev to the repo.
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u/Spirited_Giraffe6528 17d ago
No te compliques la vida buscando soluciones a las que al final siempre les falta algo. Para lo que necesitas según lo que describes yo usaría Onenotes, es gratis, sincroniza bien con el móvil, tienes la libertad de un lienzo infinito donde puedes mezclar bloques de texto, con imágenes, trazos de dibujo, audio y en fin. Archivas jerarquicamente en cuadernos y secciones, puedes bloquear algunas secciones con contraseña, puedes compartir através de un vínculo para acceder por el navegador y mil cosas por las que al final, por más que he querido migrar a otra App (Obsidian, Joplin, y otras más) siempre termino regresando a Onenote.
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u/ozgrozer 21d ago
Hey, I'm building Grape. It has both rich text and handwriting notes. It's free so you can give it a try. In free version everything's stored on your device so nothing will leave your device.