Chris Messina

Notebag - A keyboard-focused note-taking app that gets out of your way

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Notebag is a note taking app you can use entirely from your keyboard. It is built from the ground up to be there when you need it and carefully hidden away when you don't. It brings along amazing features such as note linking, instant preview and an omnibar.

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pretzelhands
πŸ‘‹ Hi Product Hunt! It's been a while! After a good year and a half I've finally come back from freelancing to building something of my own. And boy, does it feel good! πŸ’­ The story: Work on Notebag started on March 7, 2020 after a few long months of me being rather unhappy with any note taking app that's out there. Originally what I wanted something that you could describe as Apple Notes with markdown and a global show/hide shortcut. Eventually I realized that I very much enjoy the efficiency of managing my notes with just my keyboard and here we are! ✨ Main features: ⌨️ Fully keyboard compatible! You can throw away your mouse! (But you don't have to). You can do everything with a keyboard shortcut. You've never moved around your note taking app this fast. ⚑️ Markdown with instant preview! There's no preview pane here. You type and Notebag immediately formats your note πŸ” Fuzzy search for notes! If you remember even a few words of the thing you wrote three weeks ago, Notebag will find it for you real quick. πŸ‘€ An omnibar you where you can quickly go to notes and run common commands. You might know this as "Go To Anything" from your code editor 🏷 Nestable categories! Simply write a #hashtag and Notebag will categorize your notes for you. They're never more than a quick search away. πŸ”— Linkable notes! Collect all your knowledge and link it. The power of organized knowledge is right at your finger tips. Welcome to a new note-taking experience. P.S: Be sure to use coupon code LAUNCH20 for the first 24 hours to get 20% off!
Tony Xiao
@_pretzelhands Do you have any thoughts on integrations? In particular I'm looking to be able to take notes in Notebag but be about to then archive it into a more structured system like Coda.
Leandro
Congrats on launching, Richard! Notebag looks great πŸ™ŒπŸΎ
Rik Schennink
Looking great, congrats on the launch Richard!
Hugo Villain
Looks rad, I'm curious how it compares to nvALT. Fuzzy search looks nice although it doesn't seem to highlight matched strings. I'll give it a try this week πŸ‘
pretzelhands
@hypervillain I hope you have a great time using it. Highlighting the matched strings in the fuzzy search is definitely something I should add!
Wilbert Liu
Congrats for the launch Richard! As a regular note user, I'm pretty impressed by the omnibar to move from one note to another. The other nice thing is how you handle markdown, it's better than what Bear has done (no offense to Bear though, it's a great product as well). So I wish you have a massive success with Notebag. Godspeed!
Cam Adair
Brilliant! Can't wait to try this out.
Clo
Keyboard compatible + private + locally stored + markdown => everything that makes software sexy. I was looking for a note-taking app, I tried Roam and TiddlyWiki, I contemplated Evernote, but I'm getting Notebag and in the end I think I'll stick to it!
Adam Bardoň
I've been using Notebag since the beta and I love it! Especially the show/hide shortcut and Markdown support.
Armin Ulrich
congrats! insta-buy for me 😊
Melanie Massinger
Congrats on the launch, Richard! That's a super nice feature set πŸ™Œ
Adil
Congrats Richard! Gonna buy on cyber monday deal :D
gerasim_sergey
Will it be possible to automatically create bi-directional links? This is crucial for me.
Shaun Farrugia
ya ever hear of notebag @_pretzelhands ?
pretzelhands
@h0h0h0 What's that. Sounds like a total drag!
David Gay
Congrats on launch, this looks good! I'm still waiting on an app this nice-looking to have Vim keybindings. Until then, I gotta stick with vimwiki.
pretzelhands
@davidgay Hahah, once you vim you never go back, eh?
Marcel Hagedoorn
Looking awesome. Congrats!
Coder Dan
Very cool! My blog uses Markdown so this could be a great way to easily write blog posts.
Yury Molodtsov
I'm a man of simple needs, I see a new note-taking app – I'm downloading it.
pretzelhands
@y_molodtsov Hahaha, a true connoisseur of note taking!
Yevhenii Peteliev
Niicee! Looks very useful. I can't wait when I try it πŸ–€ Congratulations!
pretzelhands
@peteliev Thank you, Yevhenii! I hope you'll have a lot of fun using it :)
Brook Lenox
Looks great. One question...can you import notes from Evernote?
pretzelhands
@brook_lenox Hi Brook! Currently there are no migration options. I'm working hard on getting them in, but it will probably take a bit before its ready. Sorry about that!
Miguel Piedrafita
Congrats on launching Richard!