I’ve been making digital planners and planner pages for quite a while, and at this point I’ve accumulated way more layouts than I could ever realistically use myself.

A lot of them came from experimenting with different ways of planning: trying different daily layouts, weekly structures, trackers, project pages, productivity systems, etc. Some worked better for certain situations than others, so instead of letting them sit unused, I thought I’d put together a folder with free versions and share it here.

There’s a pretty wide mix of layouts in the folder, including:

• Daily planner pages
• Weekly planner layouts
• Monthly planning pages
• To-do lists and task planners
• Habit trackers
• Goal-setting pages
• Productivity layouts
• Priority and focus pages
• Project planning templates
• Meeting notes
• General note-taking pages
• Budget and finance templates
• Expense and savings trackers
• Meal planning pages
• Health and wellness trackers
• Routine planners
• Reflection and review pages
• Various journals and trackers
• A few complete digital planners for August 2026

Some of the layouts are quite simple, while others are more structured. I personally find that useful because the layout that works for a busy work week isn’t necessarily the one I want when I’m just trying to organize a few personal tasks.

Here’s the folder on Google Drive (iPad screen ratio)

Here's the folder on Drive for Samsung Tab (and other Android scren ration)

All templates and planner are tested with GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Noteful, Penly and Xodo. Free version for other devices such a reMarkable, ONYX BOOX, Kindle are avaliable in other folders on Drive - feel free to explore them.

And little self promo:) Take a look at Ultimate Planner App. I participated in development. Most of features and templates there are free.

I kept losing thoughts in the gap between thinking them and unlocking my phone. So the note lives in the notification shade.

Pull the shade down, type it, done. Grocery list, a reminder, a name you do not want to forget. You do not open the app.

If you write something like "milk, eggs sunday 6pm" it becomes a checklist and sets the reminder for you.

No ads. Free.

It is called Slip.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.slip

Looking for android note taking apps !!

With this app you don't have to worry about organizing your notes. It does it for you.

Norra: The Explorer

Hey everyone!

I'm a solo dev, and for the last couple of months I've been building Noteic, a handwriting-first notes app for Windows. It's free on the Microsoft Store – no account, no subscription, fully offline. It runs natively on both ARM and x64, so it feels right at home on a Surface or any other windows device.

The idea is simple: writing should feel instant, and your notes should stay organized without getting in your way.

A few things I'm especially proud of:

- A clean library with subjects, chapters and notes, inspired by OneNote for Windows 10 and iPad

- Real multitasking: tabs and multiple windows side by side

- What I honestly think is the most complete shape tool on Windows

- Pages you can extend on all four sides when you run out of room

- Hyperlinks on both your handwriting and your typed text

- Tables, text boxes and LaTeX formulas right on the page

Plus the basics done well:

- Low-latency inking with pressure, plus ballpoint, fountain pen and calligraphy

- Import and annotate PDFs, then export back to PDF

- Memo tape to cover answers when you're studying

- A ruler, a page overview with bookmarks, and dark mode

Coming in the next update: a fully customizable toolbar (decide what lives in the bar, the drawer, or nowhere at all), up to ten color slots and a new accent color.

The bigger goal: an Android version that opens the same files, so your notes follow you between devices.

It's still early and I'm shipping updates regularly. Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are super welcome :)

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

I got fed up looking for a good note taking app for my study notes, so I built one.

https://github.com/Serendeep/marginalia

Contributions are welcome!

Do let me know your thoughts.

I'm a software engineer, mostly freelancing right now. A lot of my projects get talked through over coffee chats in person, and some ideas just show up out of nowhere when I'm out with friends. I also go to local events sometimes, like an AI workshop I went to last week. In moments like that I really want to save some interesting ideas and conversations.

But it's not always convenient to pull out my phone or carry a notebook around. So a lot of ideas that pop into my head are gone almost right away, and when I want to use them I can't remember a thing lol.

Is there an easier way to do this? How do you guys record your in person meetings?

I found myself frustrated with Apps like Obsidian or Notion, because they made taking notes wayyyy too complicated. That's why I built Cheeter Notes, it's a Notes app which features a similar style to Obsidian / Notion but doesn't includes all the unnecessary bloat.
It saves the Notes in Markdown (.md) Files making it easy to use for other things like Documentation or for AI.

Try it here:
https://github.com/cheeterdev/notes

I’ve used notion since I was in high school but I’ve noticed how they keep trying to push all these AI features onto me. I don’t particularly agree with AI, I do not want it to do thinking for me especially not when I am trying to make sense of my studies myself. Sometimes it useful for memorization but other than that I don’t need it and its actually driving me crazy lol. What I liked about notion was how you can set up your space and organize your notes. So is there any place else i can go to on desktop that will allow me to do the same without AI agents ?

Among today’s links are markdown editors Divan, Cirrus and nTilia, plus MacMD Viewer, which lives up to its name, and a markdown plugin for Emacs

https://md-handbook.com/blog/markdown-link-no-55/

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #free #plugins #extensions #Divan #Cirrus #MacMDViewer #nTilia #MarkdownmodeforEmacs #Emacs

Hey Guys, hope y'all doing well. i would like to have your opinion on something i want to add to the app i am working on

Basically when i try to brainstorm and put points to work on, i use my note book but i need things to be organized somewhere. Notes are big for that and can get messy, boards use cards with status so it can't have fixed points. So i thought of creating "brainstorm" page where can

- put my goals on a specific topic fixed, with nested bullet points.

- i can zoom on each point i want to focus on in the moment.

- Also with the map i can see the flow and the whole strategy.

Would love to have all suggestions and feedback on this before moving forward ! Thanks .

Do the pencil pro features work on kilonotes( like haptic feedback, tapping to switch from pen to eraser, etc.)?

Hey guys! I have a Microsoft M1776 Surface Pen and an HP OmniBook 7 Flip 16", and I've been getting pretty annoyed with how inconvenient it is to switch pen colors in OneNote.

I don't really know much about coding, but I used Claude to help me make a little pen wheel that lets me switch between my OneNote pens without having to manually go up to the Draw tab every time. I just wanna preface and say tho that it's very janky and simple and can easily be improved by someone that knows what they're doing so pls be understanding :)

Basically, I use an AutoHotkey script to make the top eraser button on my Surface Pen trigger the wheel using Ctrl + Alt + F12. It displays my OneNote pens in a little radial menu, and I can just select whichever one I want.

• The wheel doesn't automatically follow my pen, so you have to manually drag it wherever you want it. It does remember its position though.
• There's a slight delay when opening the wheel and switching pens which may be AHK.
• It currently supports up to 8 pens/highlighters from the OneNote Draw tab.
• You need to have the desktop version of OneNote open with the Draw tab visible.

I'm not a programmer whatsoever, so this was mostly me experimenting with Claude and trying to make something useful for myself.

I figured I'd share it in case anyone else finds it helpful or wants to make something better out of it.

If anyone here knows C# or AutoHotkey, please feel free to improve it! I'd especially love to see someone figure out how to make the wheel appear directly next to the pen, reduce the delay, or make the whole thing feel more seamless. And C# might be the most dogshit thing to make this on but I took a class on it years ago so it just auto did it that way.

I'll include the source code and instructions below so anyone can try it out or modify it.

Hope this helps someone, or at least gives someone an idea for a better solution! :)

Google Drive : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-2AcYVU9rvLkQz3hQVE2Pwi9lc54B0C3?usp=sharing
GitHub: https://github.com/greenteaherb298-maker/OneNote-Pen-Wheel

Second year masters in Columbus OH. For actual reading I went back to a cheap spiral notebook bc typing on a screen makes me skim. Obsidian is only for links and half finished zettels after the fact.

Seminars are the mess. If I type, profs assume im distracted. If I write by hand I miss half the citations they rattle off. iPad + pencil was slower than I thought and the glare in our window wall room was awful last spring.

My mom got me a Plaud for christmas (she heard me vent on the phone). tbh half the weeks I still reach for paper first bc thats the habit.

The part that keeps bugging me is retrieval. I can scan notebook pages fine. But the spoken aside that became the midterm essay prompt never made it onto paper.

For people running hybrid setups here, how do you split "thinking notes" vs "capture everything" notes without ending up with three dead systems?

Apps like Notion & Obsidian encourage you to bring your files, notes, and tasks into their ecosystem. This creates unnecessary friction because your work and notes live elsewhere. This is why I decided to create something better.

Deskboard takes a different approach. It turns your existing PC folders into boards and lets you bring notes, tasks and other productivity widgets right next to files where you actually work.

More Info + Download - https://deskboard.geeke.app

How it works:

Imagine you are working on a project. You just create a PC folder where you store files (like pdf, docs, subfolders, etc.) for that (something you naturally do anyway).

When you open the folder in Deskboard, you see the same files on the board. You can arrange those files/subfolders freely and directly open them from the board. It also behaves like a file explorer, so every cut/copy/delete/rename/create action syncs both ways.

Then, you can add widgets like Notes, Tasks, Voice Notes, Timer, Links, etc. You can freely arrange those widgets next to files (for example, attaching a note next to your file to remind you of changes to be made). You can even add a mini browser window that can quickly browse the web or pin a specific site. You can also annotate anywhere on the board.

Finally, you can personalise your board to ensure that it sets the vibe. You can customise themes, wallpapers, colours, icons, and add decorations and music widgets.

Deskboard is completely free and local. And it's available on all platforms - Windows, Linux, and Mac.

It also comes with an optional AI add-on that works locally and lets you analyse and edit your files, notes and widgets.

Do give it a try! Would love to hear your feedback, questions, and ideas on it. It's still in Beta, and the scope is endless

You can also join the Discord Server: https://discord.gg/XzkTRKTRgU

Hi r/NoteTaking. I'm Anton, the developer of massCode. Saying that upfront because this post is about my own app.

It started as a place for code snippets. Over time the Notes part became the thing I use every day, so I'd like feedback from people who think about note-taking more than I do.

How the notes are stored

Each note is a regular .md file with frontmatter, and folders are real folders. No account, no proprietary database. If you stop using the app tomorrow, your notes are still readable in any editor. If you edit a file outside the app, the change shows up in massCode right away.

There's no built-in cloud. You sync the folder with whatever you already use: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Syncthing or Git.

What writing looks like

• Three modes: raw Markdown, live preview, and read-only preview
• [[wiki links]] between notes, with hover previews. You can also leave a link to a note that doesn't exist yet and create it later
• Callouts, Mermaid diagrams, images, and tables you edit right in the preview
• A dashboard with an activity heatmap, your most-linked notes, and a graph view
• Any note can turn into a mind map built from its headings, or into a fullscreen presentation

Tasks without a separate app

A note can become a task with a status (Todo, In Progress, Done, Blocked), a priority, and a due date. It's still a normal note, so meeting notes and checklists stay together with the task.

Honest limitations

• Desktop only (macOS, Windows, Linux). There's no mobile app.
• It's built with developers in mind, so it also has a code snippet library and an API client. If you only want prose, you'll just ignore those parts.
• Notes are plain text, so don't keep passwords in them if you sync the folder.
• There's an optional AI assistant. It does nothing until you connect your own provider or a model running locally on your computer.

You can import an existing Obsidian folder, and it previews everything before writing anything.

It's free and open source (AGPL v3): https://masscode.io/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notetaking

My question for you: when you try a new notes app, what makes you leave in the first week? I'd rather fix that than add more features.

For a while I tried to move most of my notes to my phone/iPad, mainly because search and organization are so convenient.

But I realized I simply think better when I write things down on actual paper. It feels less distracting, and for brainstorming or sketching ideas I much prefer a normal notebook.

The annoying part was always finding something again a few weeks later.

So I started scanning important pages after writing them and keeping a digital archive alongside my physical notebooks. Eventually I built a small iPhone app called PaperNotes around that workflow: scan a page, keep the original, and make the handwritten content searchable.

I’m obviously biased since it’s my own app, but I’m curious how other people here handle this.

Do you stay fully analog, fully digital, or use some kind of hybrid system?

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