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

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 👍

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!

👋 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! 💭 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 🔍 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. 👀 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. 🔗 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!

A clean interface, the quickest interaction possible for a note-taking solution. What's not to like? Noted!

And there is a problem, your site says about the trial version ... but when I downloaded the trial version it requires a license

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!

I've been using Notebag since the beta and I love it! Especially the show/hide shortcut and Markdown support.

Looks really neat! I think what really got me is the "Fully keyboard compatible". I love being able to do everything with shortcuts, without having to use my pad/mouse.

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.

Nice idea especially some of the shortcuts and the complex math formulas integration but way to go Pros + Complex Math Formulas (but cannot be edit as of now which is a bug) + Fuzzy Search + Making Projects using # right away + UI borrowed by NoteJoy Cons - Offline only - Support is super slow close to non existant - No visual help to remember the shortcuts Nice idea with a long way to go :)

Congrats for the app and mostly for the effort to make it! 👏🏻 As a developer myself, I know how hard it is to come to this point. All the best!!!

After the trial, I gotta say, this is a half-baked product, I can't believe someone is comparing this to Roam Research, and I can't believe it costs 16.99USD to buy it.

I love the direction - Fast, keyboard centric, hotkey activated. The slowness of other note taking apps has always been a nonstarter. I've been looking for a replacement for Notational Velocity for years now, especially since the simplenote integration stopped working. This could be it, but I need to be able to see my notes on mobile too. Will you be offering a mobile app or an integration with a note taking app that does?

I wish that Notebag simply used .md files in my hard drive instead of encrypting in a segregated folder. Ad I would like good-old fashioned pulldown menus, multiple windows, and so on. I'm sticking with Typora.

congratulations on the launch. I love the omnibar approach. IMO, every productivity app needs to have it. I'll start using it when I am able to sync between computers.

This software is very buggy. I bought it last week. It's not a release candidate (RC) level. It's not even at Beta level, it's an Alpha release. Definitely not an RC never mind a proper release level, he admitted this often on his Twitter.. Very unusual and improper to sell this level of prototype. A big warning Bell. The big secret is since a few months ago and beta release of "Roam Research" (search YouTube) there's been a frenzy and many developers have been taking it's unique features, mainly Bi-directional linking. The nearest is called Obsidian (search YouTube for obsidian.md) which unlike Roam has an entry level version, a local (not cloud) version which is free (as well as subscriptions pricing). Roam only has cloud (they just announced local due to obsidian competition) and all subscriptions based. You can sign up for early Access to Obsidian (www.obsidian.md). Roam research was overwhelmed and closed their early access. They're both hugely more advanced than notebag, but they call themselves beta and say they can't honorably take money for a beta. They're much more stable than notebag and have numerous features which notebag will never have as they have expert teams of productivity coders and designers from big previous brands still going strong. Also much more to come, numerous features. Obsidian like Roam has a GRAPH View (dynamic mindmap view) of how your files link together. Which this cheap knock off does not have, notebag lacks most features of Roam & Obsidian too. It's like a buggy notepad compared to a major Word Processor like Roam or Obsidian which it tries to copy. There are others, like org-roam, which has many many features of Roam, not just one or two unlike notebag. Org-roam is not a quickie app ripping off features of a new frenzy app, it compares well with Roam (like Obsidian) and is not a commercial venture and free. It also has official support of Roam and promise of future backing by Roam team. For average users free basic local version of obsidian is easiest to install and they amazingly update versions with major features every few days! They've pledged to keep the local version (much better than their cloud or Roam cloud) free forever. For experienced users and coders, go for the free org-roam as it too has most of the many features of Roam and will remain free and open source. Roam features are being adopted into many other productivity apps, major apps, not quickie profit makers just doing one or two features. These usually are little money making apps that soon become abandonware as their track history of projects show. These facts and news above behind the scenes are things you'd never get from marketing blurbs on commercial websites made from quickie templates, but only if you research on sites like producthunt to see what actually is going on. However there are even more apps that have a few of Roam features AND are free AND open source AND popular which means they're unlikely to become yet another money making abandonware as they're not likely to be dropped, for example some of these "Roam Alternatives" in links below which are free and open source: https://nesslabs.com/roam-resear... https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhos... https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamRes... You have to research to see what actually is going on and only get this sort of (behind the marketing blurb scenes) news and Real information if you research on specialist sites like producthunt.com.

Will it be possible to automatically create bi-directional links? This is crucial for me.

Congrats on launching, Richard! Notebag looks great 🙌🏾

Good job. But I find this app is built with electron, You better to do something to secure the source code. asar can be extracted.

Congrats Richard! Gonna buy on cyber monday deal :D