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AshNotes

Sep 18, 2025

AshNotes is a simple web-based note-taking app I developed after spending way too much time over multiple years looking at all the different note-taking apps out there and never finding one that quite worked perfectly for me. So I made one for myself and just myself, specific to my own use-case.

AshNotes is web-based, so accessible from different machines without requiring installation or syncing, and is installable as a PWA. Notes are stored in markdown in flat files so that they're easy to back up and recoverable and manipulatable by other systems even if AshNotes goes away. It features wikilinks, hashtags, toggle foldout sections, checklists, images, and supports raw HTML. All of this runs on a Flask app, which is deployable to any WSGI server.

You can find the project at https://codeberg.org/acegiak/ashnotes

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Screenshot of AshNotes with several demo notes shown in a masonry style display
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Looks nice! How are the notes allocated to the columns? can you drag and drop between columns? Being able to put notes side by side is very useful.

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@Coopr8@kbin.earth they're in order of date created, with pinned notes kept at the top. I'm very much using a tag and search methodology, rather than a nite organizing methodology that is demanded by something like Notion. The actual column layout is provided by minimasonry.js so I'm not sure how I would implement rearranging anyway. For notes I want together I just tag them with a hashtag and then have a link to that hashtag in a pinned note.

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