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VB Notes
Markdown notes in your own folder, searched by meaning
26 followers
Markdown notes in your own folder, searched by meaning
26 followers
A free, open-source notes app for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. Every note is a plainmd file in a folder you choose, edited in a Bear-style editor with nested tags. Search by meaning runs on the device, offline. No account.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Lavneet. I built VB Notes because I wanted Bear's editor on every device, with notes I own as plain files.
You pick a folder (iCloud Drive or any sync app) and every note is a .md file in it, so Obsidian, a text editor or a script can read the same notes. Search understands meaning: a small model runs on your phone, so you can find a note by describing it, offline. The desktop app is built with Tauri, a 14 MB download on Mac.
What it doesn't do yet: no iPad version, no web app, no sharing.
It's free with no account, and the code is MIT on GitHub. What would you want next?
Searching by meaning while the notes stay as plain files in my own folder is the combination I keep failing to find, because every app with good search wants to own the storage.