Zennotes - a vim inspired note taking app
Started by Prion
on 6/12/2026
Prion
6/12/2026 5:44 pm
Has anybody seen Zennotes (https://zennotes.org
I stumbled across something I thought "yawn, yet another Markdown-based note taking program" and watched the Youtube presentation with not much in terms of expectation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661XzULWfVU&t=278s
Boy, was I wrong., I found myself nodding throughout the whole video. See for yourselves, I am not a frequent shifter but this deserves some attention (Mac and Linux only for the moment, I think)
The source can be found here (https://github.com/ZenNotes/zennotes
I stumbled across something I thought "yawn, yet another Markdown-based note taking program" and watched the Youtube presentation with not much in terms of expectation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661XzULWfVU&t=278s
Boy, was I wrong., I found myself nodding throughout the whole video. See for yourselves, I am not a frequent shifter but this deserves some attention (Mac and Linux only for the moment, I think)
The source can be found here (https://github.com/ZenNotes/zennotes
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Amontillado
6/13/2026 10:31 am
True, very nice.
I can't install any personal software on my work laptop. My official note-taking resource is One Note, which is a train wreck. I could deal with it if searching weren't so incredibly unreliable.
This looks nice, but I still couldn't get away with it. I can get away with scripting, though, since that's part of what they pay me for.
What I'm thinking about is a curses (text based "gui") menu system in Python. I think I could run vim in a separate tmux window. The Python code would run the menus, the tree of documents could be kept in a Python dictionary, and vim would do the work of creating or updating notes.
Or, maybe there's something like that already out there.
I can't install any personal software on my work laptop. My official note-taking resource is One Note, which is a train wreck. I could deal with it if searching weren't so incredibly unreliable.
This looks nice, but I still couldn't get away with it. I can get away with scripting, though, since that's part of what they pay me for.
What I'm thinking about is a curses (text based "gui") menu system in Python. I think I could run vim in a separate tmux window. The Python code would run the menus, the tree of documents could be kept in a Python dictionary, and vim would do the work of creating or updating notes.
Or, maybe there's something like that already out there.