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note.md

Launching today

Local-first markdown based workspace for research writings

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Local-first markdown based workspace for research writings

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note.md is a private, local-first markdown based workspace for macOS built for focused writing, research, and structured thought.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m a master’s student, and notemd started as something I wanted for myself. When I began preparing for my thesis, I realized my research workflow was spread across too many places: PDFs in one tool, notes somewhere else, citations in another app, and half my thinking hidden across browser tabs. At first, I just wanted to build my own local version of Confluence. I always liked the structured workspace feeling, but Confluence never felt designed for a single person building their own academic knowledge base. Then, while writing papers for university, the project kept growing. I didn’t just want a place to write notes anymore. I wanted one workspace where I could read literature, manage sources, write articles, cite directly from PDFs, and keep the whole project structured. Over time, that evolved into notemd: an all-in-one academic workspace for reading, writing, citing, and organizing research. The newest step has been integrating local AI models to automate some of the repetitive research work, like extracting charts, tables, and images from papers, searching semantically through literature, or finding a supporting source for a claim without manually digging through dozens of PDFs. I built notemd because I wanted research to feel less fragmented and more focused. I’d love to hear what you think.

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1d ago

feels like a very real pain point for anyone doing deep research. The work gets fragmented across PDFs, notes, citations, browser tabs, and scattered thoughts. The local AI angle is especially interesting because research needs trust and grounding, not just fast summaries.how notemd handles evidence quality when finding a source for a claim, does it distinguish between strong support, weak support, contradictory findings, and loosely related papers?

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2h ago

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@harshalvc_ai Currently, it works like this: a search algorithm identifies the 12 text chunks that are most likely to be relevant to your claim. These chunks are then passed to a small language model, which compares each one against the claim and categorizes it as Supports, Contradicts, Nuanced, or Irrelevant.

It also assigns a percentage score to indicate how likely each text chunk is to be a good fit for your claim.

From there, you can simply review the suggested evidence and insert the citation if it works for you.

One important note: the quality of the results depends on whether your project already contains sources that are relevant to the claim.

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2h ago

BurnLink

Hey @andreaigner This is really an intuitive product. I’ve actually struggled with this a lot myself, so I’d love to try it out. Any plans for a Windows version?

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5m ago

mailX by mailwarm

Congrats on the launch!! This feels clean and useful for people who want seamless and free writing. A local first setup also makes it more trustworthy for focused work and research.

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1h ago

Rizzle AI

Writers and researchers don’t want more features. They want less friction between thinking and writing.

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9m ago