{"repo":"rishikanthc/zendown","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/rishikanthc/zendown","clone":"git clone https://github.com/rishikanthc/zendown.git","description":"Self-Hostable Markdown Notes App","language":"Svelte","stars":67,"topics":[],"license":"AGPL-3.0","category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"ZenDown ZenDown is a self-hosted markdown note taking app. Built using Svelte5 and Go, the app runs as a single binary providing a highly performant user experience. ZenDown features a fully local AI-engine which uses document embeddings to provide smart features for automatic organization and content discovery. ZenDown allows you to focus on note-taking without the cognitive cost of bookkeeping or organization. ZenDown is ideal for frictionless zettelkasten as it removes the need for manually linking related notes. Related notes are automatically listed for each note. This reduces the cognitive burden of figuring out and connecting related content manually. Find any note based on semantic meaning. Instead of string based pattern matching search ZenDown understands and searches notes based on the semantic meaning of the query. Automatically organize similar notes into collections based on description Philosophy Despite there being several note taking apps, as someone with ADHD, I find the customizability and too many features very distracting (gets me down a rabbit hole ending up in setup-paralalysis - Looking at you Obsidian). I was looking for a simple note taking app that helps me focus on note taking with a minimal opinionated set of features. An important requirement is for all data and processing to happen locally on my own device. As someone who suffers from cognitive overload and dissonance, I wanted to remove the cognitive cost associated with organizing notes to mak","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/rishikanthc","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/rishikanthc/zendown/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}