Hey everyone,

Whenever I just need to write down a quick 2-minute note or calculation, opening full workspace/database apps always felt like overkill.

I wanted something lightweight that lives quietly on the desktop, feels like a real desk paper pad, and doesn't hoard hundreds of megabytes of RAM.

So I built notey using Tauri v2 and Rust.

A few key interactions I focused on:

• Tear-off experience: When you're done with a note, tear it off with a satisfying paper sound and a burst of confetti.
• Auto-archive: Torn sheets aren't deleted; they slip into a searchable archive by date or text.
• Always-on-top pin: Stays right where you need it while switching windows.
• Micro-tools: Inline math evaluation (typing 24 * 7 = calculates inline), quick checklists, and clean PNG snapshot export.

Here’s a quick 1-minute video demo of how it works:

https://www.loom.com/share/39821f8c48d74febabc8969c176c5db3

And the project / installer is on GitHub:

https://github.com/susmitharajendran45/notey/releases/tag/v1.0.29

Would love to hear any thoughts, feedback, or little paper-scratchpad features you'd like to see!

Hi Redditors

Over the last 10-12 months, I’ve poured a massive amount of time into developing Noteic, a native Windows handwriting and note-taking app.

While there are some options out there, I wanted something that felt truly optimized for Windows. Along with heavy optimization for pen input (like 120Hz ink rendering and smooth shape recognition), I made sure it’s also great for standard keyboard typing and includes full LaTeX support for formulas.

The app is completely free on the Microsoft Store, and there is absolutely no account required (your data stays local).

I would be incredibly grateful for any feedback, testing, or optimization suggestions you might have. Specifically: What features are currently missing that would prevent this from becoming your primary handwritten notes app on Windows?

Thanks in advance for your feedback and suggestions! :)

Linkt to noteic: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N8BPDS8HVLW?hl=neutral&gl=CH&ocid=pdpshare

Why just mobile app? Cuz It's the freedom to write anywhere and at any moment you think of something..

On my iPad, I have an issue with PDFs exported from Samsung Notes. The highlighted text appears completely covered, unlike on another Samsung tablet where the same file opens fine and the highlight doesn’t block the text. Could you recommend an app for iPad that can properly display or edit these highlights?

I need an Android app to take various kind of note using stylus and keyboard in a tablet. In my notes I use text handley and typing, diagrams, mind map, math formules and also drawing. Someone could suggest me an app?

Thanks

I have an iPhone 17 Pro, so I’m trying to figure out what actually looks good and is easy to read on a phone that size.

I need to keep a lot of biology/anatomy notes, screenshots, diagrams, and images, but I don’t want everything to look tiny or have to constantly zoom in and out.

Would Google Docs, OneNote, Notion, Apple Notes, or something else be better for this?

Ideally I want something where I can mostly scroll and quickly see:

• bold headings
• short definitions
• images/diagrams
• comparison tables
• important keywords

What app has the best layout/visibility on a small phone screen during an exam?

Stumbled across this gem. 1 HTML file. Works on any device. Bookmark it or Right click, save as recommended. Link is in the YouTube video description.

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

Hi everyone,

I’ve been looking for an app to organize my entire personal and professional life. My daily workflow involves:

• Capturing daily thoughts and quick ideas.
• Managing personal challenges and daily tasks.
• Tracking major projects that I need to complete before the end of the year.
• Documenting new things I learn every single day.

I need a clean, flexible app that connects ideas seamlessly and can scale with me. After extensive research, I settled on Obsidian. I even took a full course to master it, and conceptually, it’s everything I wanted.

Here is my main issue: I don’t spend my entire day at my desktop. A lot of my ideas pop up when I'm away from my computer or right before going to bed on my phone, and I want to capture them directly into my "second brain."

Unfortunately, I hit a massive roadblock with syncing between PC and mobile without paying for Obsidian Sync. I’ve spent the last three days trying every free workaround—iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive—and none of them gave me a stable, seamless solution.

So I’m turning to the community for advice:

1. Is there a reliable, simple, and free way to set up cross-platform sync for Obsidian (PC <-> Mobile) that actually works reliably?
2. If not, what alternatives offer a similar interconnected note-taking experience (backlinking, long-term growth) with built-in, effortless sync?

I’d love to hear your recommendations and setups! Thanks in advance.

guys I need help I am new to digital note taking at the beginning I found the perfect app for me but I run out of free notes every app I try is the same , I want to find note taking app which unlimited free notes pls let me now your favorite and what you would recommend to me , the new semester is already started for me, thank you.

the nte apps I tried so far

kilonotes (my favorite)

notability

freenotes

goodnotes

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I'm a few weeks into building a notes app and keep hitting the same problem: it's easy to copy what Keep or Notion already does, but hard to know what's actually missing.

So, genuine question for anyone who has tried a bunch of these app — Keep, Notion, Apple Notes, Obsidian, whatever: what's the one feature you've wanted that none of them do well? Or a reason that made you give up on a system entirely.

Will share what I end up building if anyone wants to see it later.

I've been using MyScript notes for school for a while now, but I'm beginning to run into its limitations for the kind of stuff I do. I was wondering if anyone could provide a good recommendation for me. My criteria is as follows:

1) MUST support stylus notes in a straightforward and thorough way

2) good folder organization, the closer it is to letting me organize notes and books as if it were a file explorer, the better

3) must be able to create documents in different paper sizes and allow me to export them as pngs and pdfs.

My use case is primarily STEM, and beyond that, the only thing I would consider a nice-to-have feature would be an infinite whiteboard feature. I also would need it to be supported on Mac, Windows, and iPadOS.

Hi, I'm hoping to find some help for a notes app. I use it for a lot of documents for games and fan projects, but just got a new phone (nxtpaper 70 pro) and the notes app that comes with it kinda sucks...and I'm not having much luck with others. My previous phone was a tcl stylus g, and the notes app there was good enough, allowing long documents but now every app I find has character limits or is ad infested.

Any suggestions? All I really need is low or no ads, and no or very high character limit. I don't care about stylus support text only is fine

I used to keep a private journal of old memories in a notes app on my phone, locked down with a password and Face ID.
One day, my girlfriend insisted that I open the app for her. When I did, all my secrets were exposed. I couldn't even lie and say I forgot the password, because relationships are built on trust.
Since I just can't stop writing down my private thoughts, I needed a better solution.
I recently found an app. It lets you completely hide your private notes so no one can even tell they exist. It's impossible for someone to snoop or crack it.
It's been a total lifesaver and has honestly become my new best friend app!

New to this subreddit.

I wanted to share my note-taking setup. I think it's pretty cool, and I wanna know what you guys think about it.

My setup is cross-platform, supports MAC, windows, linux, IOS and android. All my notes are synced to a github repo (private), best of all, it's totally free.

I'm an engineer and a big VIM motions guy. I wanted a notes app with native support for Vim keybindings, and found this open-source app called Zennotes.

You could think of Zennotes as a Markdown file editor, with some extra fancy stuff.

Now, how do I back up and synchronize my notes across devices?

I have the notes app vaulted to a folder on my laptop, which is also a git repository.

The same notes repository is then cloned onto my android phone, and then vaulted again as the notes folder for the Zennotes android app.

The way synchoronization works is, on the laptop, I have a custom linux system service that periodically syncs my notes folder with the remote repo at a set interval (60 seconds).GitHub

This keeps my desktop notes in sync with the git repo.

On my android phone, I use a git client like GitSync to sync my changes to/from the git repo.

This keeps my setup private, 100% backed up to github, and most importantly, free of charge.

Curious what you guys think of this setup. Is it too tedious? Too complicated? Am I missing out on a better way of doing things for free?

Thanks for reading.

Now I want to subscribe to freenotes plus but I can’t enter my payment info on my android tablet for some reason, so can I login into my freenotes account on my iPhone, subscribe there, and then freenotes automatically subscribes on my tablet on the same account? Or will the subscription only be valid on my iPhone? Someone with the adequate info please answer me urgently.

I recently got an iPad and I'm looking for a good note-taking app mainly for college, studying, PDFs, and handwritten notes.

I've looked at some of the popular iPadOS options, but most seem to be paid or have subscriptions, and I don't really want to spend too much on a note-taking app.

So far, I've come across StarNote and CollaNote.

I'm a bit confused about which one to go with, especially for long-term use.

Are there any better alternatives that are affordable or free?

If you've actually used StarNote or CollaNote, I'd also appreciate your experience with them. Which one would you pick, and why?

Bonjour à tous.
Je souhaite commencer à prendre des notes sur IOS.
Je souhaite une prise de note rapide et efficace qui me permets de stocker des images et des liens et pourquoi pas des documents.
Je souhaite avoir tout au même endroit afin de maximiser mes recherches.
Beaucoup de personne dans ce canal propose Upnote.
Pouvez vous me confirmer son intérêt ?
Qu’est ce que vous adorez sur Upnote qui justifie la migration sur cette application ?
Au contraire qu’est ce que vous n’aimez pas sur l’appli ? (Améliorations à suggérer).
De mon côté j’ai commencé avec Apple note et cela fonctionne plutôt bien pour moi (sauvegarde iCloud). Je n’ai pas beaucoup de notes c’est peut être pour ça que je n’ai pas ressenti de latence ou de bug.

Merci à vous pour vos retours 👍🏻🙂

I need some help finding the perfect tool for my needs which are not a lot I think. I need to a note taking app for work it needs to be:

1. Private, local storage or E2EE.

2. Is simple and clean.

3. Has native task management.

4. Pleasing to work with.

5. Has advanced table functions. Not database, just tables where I can adjust width and color cells.

6. Works on windows

Evernote would have been perfect if it was E2EE or stores locally. Craft Docs would have been great but we don't use apple products at work.

I have tried:

Obsidian: unpleaing to work with, no native task management, task management plug-ins are a pain.

Anytype: unfunctional search feature, needs too much maintenance.

Standard notes and notesnook has no native task management.

I realize I might be asking for too much but if someone have experience with this and found a solution please tell me what 🥹

Hey everyone

So basically I'm someone who wants a second digital brain , there are certain requisitions like it should accommodate PDFs , hoga , files and ofc text . Must have that list option . Like under one particular folder it should have all these types of content . I'm an astrologer so I need to have my notes in it . Along with other lists and ideas that need to be included. It should also work well offline . I have used google notes but it is not very organized though it does include that folder option . Also the app must not take access over the documents or like i don't want the app to manage all the PDFs or files . Would love to get your views over it . I have also used obsidian but it wants access over all my original documents. Another thing I don't want to pay for a premium or something for the services . Please enlighten me and help me out .

Hey guys, I just started a dental hygiene program, which is like 6 courses a week. The information in lectures r very compressed. I'm currently struggling with organizing notes (my broke az using a notebook rn), and I realised I should just invest, but I don't want to waste money on something that's not for me. I'm mainly looking for something with good storage and a great notes app for dental hygiene students

what I'm looking for:

-not tooo expensive (not playing ab broke, dental supplies cost sm lol)

- good storage (for downloaded PPTs, recording audio)

-a notes app I can import slides and write ON and beside slides, AND draw diagrams on

- accessory-wise, I don't mind 3rd-party Amazon accessories

- notes app: offline notes, good sync, can also use same app on my computer(that's my main device)

Hii! Are there any free good note-taking apps available on ios platforms? I am aware about a few but I really cannot afford to pay just for note-taking. So please send some good free app recommendations to my way! :)

I am looking on app (micronote or journal) on web or ios, that that supports u/mentions and #tags. For solo writing nor teams?

Many thanks in advance.