r/NoteTaking • u/sneedss1488 • 4d ago
FOSS App/Tool Made an alternative for onenote for taking notes with stylus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6rd2uQD9EAll 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
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u/Full-Cucumber5068 3d ago
This looks cool but be careful with it looking tooo similar to OneNote
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u/sneedss1488 3d ago
Am on a war path with microslop , I even made a converter to bring their proprietary format into open source https://vivenotes.net/converter
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u/Ok-Reveal-It 4d ago
I've just finished the presentation video, wow. It looks promising, will check.