Searched: note-taking students
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Lots of existing options. Win by niching down (one audience, one use case) or by a much better price or experience.
16Show HN launches12 in the last 2 years
624GitHub repositories
362Wikipedia company/app matches
583stars on the top repo
🚀 Show HN launches
Alexandrie – A open source Markdown note-taking app I built as student
Clinglang – A shorthand language for doctors to write structured cases
Rabrain – AI Note Taking with Voice Input and Notion-Like Editor
SocratiQ – We are making hierarchical note-taking free and first-class
Alexandrie – A lightweight Markdown note-taking app (Vue/Nuxt and Go)
Fetchnotes
Saoirse, a privacy-first research assistant (Mac Beta)
Swiftor – AI Hacking Platform [cheap vms, 20 models, voice-chat, MCP]
🧑💻 Top open-source projects
- jcv8000/Codex ★ 583 · TypeScript · updated 2025-03-11A free note-taking software for programmers and Computer Science students
- Adhumunt/NotesTeX ★ 565 · TeX · updated 2023-01-28NotesTeX (or its nickname NoTeX) is a simple LaTeX notes taking package for students.
- IssacW228/student-llm-wiki ★ 181 · updated 2026-06-16📚 Student LLM Wiki — AI-compiled knowledge base for university students. Drop course slides, get a persistent interlinked wiki. Feynman revi
- onemnemo/mnemo ★ 127 · TypeScript · updated 2026-10-22Mnemo is a free, open-source study application built with Photino X and .NET 10, designed to help students, researchers, and lifelong learne
- latazadehomero/cornell-marginalia ★ 120 · TypeScript · updated 2026-05-18A lightweight Obsidian plugin designed for students who use the Cornell Note-taking System.
- swimmingbrain/brainotes ★ 77 · TypeScript · updated 2026-10-13Handwritten notes and a whiteboard in your browser. Write with a pen, keep the pdf next to your notes. No account, nothing leaves the browse
🏢 Companies, apps and websites
- Notability (application) companyNotability is a note-taking and PDF annotation application developed by Ginger Labs, Inc. for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Android, and web browsers. The appli…
- Notehall companythat enabled college students to buy and sell class notes, study guides, and other course materials. Founded in 2008 by students at the University of…
- Livescribe companysynchronizes those notes with any audio it has recorded. This allows users to replay portions of a recording by tapping on the notes they were taking …
- National Academic Quiz Tournaments companydetermined (all formats allow graduate students to compete in some form). NAQT's eligibility rules state that any student taking at least three c…
- HSBC UK companyoverdrafts for graduates. Students graduating that year discovered that they were to face unexpected bills of up to £140 a year. Students mobilised pr…
- Microsoft OneNote softwareMicrosoft OneNote is a note-taking software developed by Microsoft. It is available for free on all platforms since 2014 and is also bundled with the…
- Google Keep softwareGoogle Keep (formerly Google Notes and appearing in app launcher as Keep Notes) is a note-taking service included as part of the free, web-based Googl…
- Google Notebook softwareGoogle Notebook was shut down. On March 20, 2013, Google launched its new note-taking application Google Keep. Comparison of notetaking software Googl…
- Microsoft Outlook softwareincludes functions such as calendaring, task managing, contact managing, note-taking, journal logging, web browsing, and RSS news aggregation. Individ…
- MySchoolHelp websiteCOMPARE NOTES WITH MYSCHOOLHELP, Fast Company Drew Olanoff (October 31, 2011), "MySchoolHelp focuses on social note taking for high school studen…
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