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Last activity about 2 months agoPosted Sep 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM EDT

Free Developer-First Onenote Alternative

Isaac-Westaway
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Productivity Tools
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Hey Everyone, been working on a note-taking app called janta (Just Another Note Taking App) the past few months.

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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yocoda
about 2 months ago
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As someone who loved OneNote, I love this. The way you wrote your About, Privacy, and Roadmap is unordinary and refreshing. Excited to see where this goes. Big Ups.
Isaac-WestawayAuthor
about 2 months ago
Thank you so much! Lot's more is on the way :-]
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