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A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++Markdown
$ npx skills add vnotex/vnoteAlternatives
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THE reference manager with features including PDF reading/annotating, Markdown/Excalidraw note-taking, project/note linking, and more...
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#2
Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.
61K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add usememos/memos#3
A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode
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$ npx skills add foambubble/foam#4
Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
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$ npx skills add requarks/wiki#5
Everything about note management. All in Zotero.
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$ npx skills add windingwind/zotero-better-notes#6
✍ WeChat Markdown Editor | 一款高度简洁的微信 Markdown 编辑器：支持 Markdown 语法、自定义主题样式、内容管理、多图床、AI 助手等特性
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add doocs/md#7
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
156K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add microsoft/markitdown#8
Get your documents ready for gen AI
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$ npx skills add docling-project/docling#9
🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.
16K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown#10
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.
15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++PDF
$ npx skills add xournalpp/xournalpp#11
SumatraPDF reader
17K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingCPDF
$ npx skills add sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf#12
Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.
11K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptPDF
$ npx skills add wojtekmaj/react-pdf#13
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
57K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add marktext/marktext#14
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.
52K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add prettier/prettier#15
Presentation Slides for Developers
47K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add slidevjs/slidev#16
Universal markup converter
45K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingHaskellMarkdown
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