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NoteGen is a cross-platform Markdown note-taking application

codexu — Thu, 29 May 2025 06:33:12 +0000

Why Choose NoteGen?
Lightweight: Installation package is only 20MB, free with no ads or bundled software.
Cross-platform: Supports Mac, Windows, Linux, and thanks to Tauri2's cross-platform capabilities, will support iOS and Android in the future.
Supports multiple recording methods including screenshots, text, illustrations, files, links, etc., meeting fragmented recording needs across various scenarios.
Native Markdown(.md) as storage format, no modifications, easy to migrate.
Native offline usage, supporting real-time synchronization to GitHub, Gitee private repositories with history rollback, and WebDAV synchronization.
AI-enhanced: Configurable with ChatGPT, Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio, Grok, and other models, with support for custom third-party model configuration.
Github: https://github.com/codexu/note-gen

💻 AI-Powered NoteGen: Transform Your Fragments into Masterpieces!

codexu — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:55:31 +0000

💻 Hey everyone, if you're tired of messy notes and want a simple way to turn your ideas into polished pieces, let me introduce you to NoteGen! 😍 It's this amazing AI-driven app that bridges recording and writing effortlessly. 🚀 As a busy note-taker myself, I've found it super helpful for organizing thoughts without the hassle.
📝 First off, why pick NoteGen over others? 🌟 It's lightweight at just a few megabytes, completely free, and ad-free – no sneaky bundles here! 😊 It works on Mac, Windows, Linux, and even plans for iOS and Android soon, thanks to its cross-platform tech. 💪 Plus, it handles all sorts of inputs like screenshots, text, images, files, and links, making every scenario a breeze.
🚀 Diving deeper, NoteGen splits into two awesome parts: recording and writing. 😎 In recording mode, it's like chatting with an AI bot that ties in your existing notes, and you can switch to organize mode to tidy up fragments into readable docs. 🌈 Features like tags for sorting, custom prompts for your AI helper, and a clipboard assistant that auto-grabs text or pics make it a game-changer. 📌 Don't forget the writing side, with a file manager for easy Markdown handling and an editor that offers real-time previews, AI for polishing text, and even tools for charts or formulas.
🔄 What I love most is how it supports offline use, syncs to GitHub, and has AI from models like ChatGPT or Gemini. 😊 It's perfect for deep writing sessions where you can insert records on the fly and roll back changes if needed. 🌟 If you're into customization, tweak themes, search globally, or manage your image uploads easily. Trust me, it's a total efficiency boost!
💡 So, what's your go-to note app right now? 😏 Give NoteGen a try and share your thoughts in the comments – I'd love to hear how it works for you! Remember, it's in alpha but already packs a punch. Let's level up our note-taking game together! ✨

https://github.com/codexu/note-gen

NoteGen Markdown Editor

codexu — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:01:59 +0000

Github: https://github.com/codexu/note-gen

NoteGen is a cross-platform Markdown note-taking application dedicated to using AI to bridge recording and writing, organizing fragmented knowledge into a readable note.

Why Choose NoteGen?

Lightweight: Installation package is only about 10MB, free with no ads or bundled software.
Cross-platform: Supports Mac, Windows, Linux, and thanks to Tauri2's cross-platform capabilities, will support iOS and Android in the future.
Supports multiple recording methods including screenshots, text, illustrations, files, links, etc., meeting fragmented recording needs across various scenarios.
Native offline usage with Markdown(.md) as the storage format, while also supporting real-time synchronization to private GitHub repositories with history rollback.
AI-enhanced: Configurable with ChatGPT, Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio, DeepSeek, and other models, with support for custom third-party model configuration.

Screenshots

Recording:

Writing:

Dark Mode:

From Recording to Writing

Conventional note-taking applications typically don't provide recording functionality. Users need to manually copy and paste content for recording, which greatly reduces efficiency. When faced with scattered recorded content, it requires significant effort to organize.

NoteGen is divided into Recording and Writing pages, with the following relationship:

Recordings can be organized into notes and transferred to the writing page for in-depth composition.
During writing, you can insert recordings at any time.

Recording

The recording function is similar to an AI chatbot, but when conversing with it, you can associate it with previously recorded content, switching from conversation mode to organization mode to arrange recordings into a readable note.

The following auxiliary features can help you record more effectively:

Tags to distinguish different recording scenarios.
Personas with support for custom prompts to precisely control your AI assistant.
Clipboard Assistant that automatically recognizes text or images in your clipboard and records them to your list.

Writing

The writing section is divided into two parts: File Manager and Markdown Editor.

File Manager

Supports management of local Markdown files and GitHub synchronized files.
Supports unlimited directory hierarchy.
Supports multiple sorting methods.

Markdown Editor

Supports WYSIWYG, instant rendering, and split-screen preview modes.
Supports version control with history rollback.
Supports AI assistance for conversation, continuation, polishing, and translation functions.
Supports image hosting, uploading images and converting them to Markdown image links.
Supports HTML to Markdown conversion, automatically converting copied browser content to Markdown format.
Supports outlines, math formulas, mind maps, charts, flowcharts, Gantt charts, sequence diagrams, staves, multimedia, voice reading, title anchors, code highlighting and copying, graphviz rendering, and plantuml UML diagrams.
Supports real-time local content saving, delayed (10s without editing) automatic synchronization, and history rollback.

Other Features

Global search for quickly finding and jumping to specific content.
Image hosting management for convenient management of image repository content.
Themes and appearance with support for dark themes and appearance settings for Markdown, code, etc.
Internationalization support, currently available in Chinese and English.

How to Use?

Download

Currently supports Mac, Windows, and Linux. Thanks to Tauri2's cross-platform capabilities, it will support iOS and Android in the future.

Download NoteGen (alpha)

Enhancement

The note-taking application can be used directly without configuration. If you want a better experience, please open the settings page to configure AI and synchronization.

Community

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Contribute

NoteGen is implemented using the following technology stack:

How to contribute:

NoteGen is a cross-platform AI note-taking application focused on recording and writing, developed based on Tauri.

codexu — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:06:20 +0000

The core philosophy of NoteGen is to combine recording, writing, and AI, with all three complementing each other. The recording function helps users quickly capture and organize fragmented knowledge. The organization function is the bridge connecting recording and writing, which can organize continuously recorded content into a readable note, assisting users in completing the creation process from scratch. If the AI-organized results cannot meet your requirements, you can use the writing function to refine it yourself.

Github

Recording
Recording methods supported:

🖥️ Screenshot recording, through which users can quickly capture and record fragmented knowledge, especially in situations where text copying is not possible.
📄 Text recording, which allows copying text or manually inputting brief content as a record.
🖼️ Illustration recording, which can be automatically inserted into appropriate positions when generating notes.
📇 File recording, which recognizes content from PDF, md, html, txt, and other files for text recording.
🔗 Link recording (to be implemented), using web crawlers for page content recognition and recording.
📷 Photo recording (to be implemented), similar to illustration recording, calling the camera to record, suitable for future mobile use.
Auxiliary recording:

🏷️ Custom tags for better categorization and differentiation of different recording scenarios.
🤖 AI conversation, by default associated with records under the current tag, and you can also manually associate it with any article in your writing.
📋 Clipboard recognition, which automatically recognizes images or text in the clipboard after you copy them.
💾 Organization, when you have completed a series of records, you can try to let AI help you organize them into an article.
Writing
🗂 File manager, supporting management of files and folders in local and Github repositories, with unlimited directory levels.
📝 Support for WYSIWYG, instant rendering, and split-screen preview modes.
📅 Version control, if you enable synchronization, you can trace back to historically uploaded records in the history.
🤖 AI assistance, supporting Q&A, continuation, optimization, simplification, translation, and other functions, and you can insert records into any position of the article at any time.
🏞️ Image hosting, directly copy and paste images into the Markdown editor, which will automatically upload the image to the image hosting service and convert it to a Markdown image link.
🛠️ HTML and Markdown conversion, copying content from browsers will automatically convert it to Markdown format.
Auxiliary
📦 Large model support, with multiple built-in large model configurations, supporting customization and easy switching.
👁️ OCR, which can assist in recognizing text in images.
🏗️ Organization templates, which can be customized for AI to organize different types of content.
🔎 Global search, for quickly searching and jumping to specified content.
🌃 Image hosting management, for convenient management of image hosting repository content.
💎 Themes and appearance, supporting dark theme, and appearance settings for Markdown, code, etc.
How to Use?
Download
Currently supports Mac, Windows, Linux, and thanks to Tauri2's cross-platform capabilities, it will support iOS and Android in the future.

Download NoteGen (alpha)

Getting Started Guide
If you are not familiar with NoteGen, you can read the user documentation, which includes a quick start guide:

NoteGen User Documentation

AI Model Integration
Currently supports custom model configuration, with built-in support for ChatGPT, ChatAnyWhere, Ollama, LM Studio, Doubao, Tongyi Qianwen, Kimi, DeepSeek, and all models using the OpenAI protocol. Support for other protocols will be gradually added in the future.

Local models may currently experience 403 errors, waiting for a solution from http-plugin. This issue does not occur in the development environment.

Discussion Topic - About Model Integration

Synchronization and Image Hosting
NoteGen supports offline storage, with all notes stored in Markdown format. To ensure the security of your notes, you can choose to synchronize them to a private Github repository. After configuring synchronization, Github image hosting functionality is also supported. Independent configuration for other image hosting services will be supported in the future.

Contribute
NoteGen is implemented using the following technology stack:

Tauri 2
Next.js 15
shadcn-ui
Participate in contributions:

Update Plan
Submit Bug or Improvement Suggestions
Discussions
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