Free Developer-First Onenote Alternative
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You can try it out at app.janta.dev (you will be redirected to app.janta.dev/canvas/temporary, which is the locally-stored whiteboard you can access)
I felt limited with OneNote, Excalidraw, and other infinite-canvas style apps, so I built an alternative. You have access to code-editors, Desmos graphs, and rich text editors (SlateJS). This is because the canvas is designed in a way that allows web components to exist on the same layer as pen-strokes, so you can annotate code, circle points-of-inflection, and programmatically generate graphs using matplotlib.pyplot!
This is a beta release, and feedback would be awesome!
The author introduces Janta, a free developer-first OneNote alternative with advanced features like code editors and graph generation, and receives positive feedback from the community.
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