Open Source Rust Note-Taking Apps

Rnote is a free, open-source, vector-based note-taking and drawing application designed for handwriting, sketching, and document annotation. Written in Rust and GTK4, it provides an adaptive interface optimized for stylus input and drawing tablets. Users can write naturally with pressure-sensitive pens and customizable stroke styles. Its canvas supports infinite expansion, continuous pages, and fixed-size document layouts. Rnote includes tools for creating shapes, selecting objects, and manipulating existing drawings. Users can import PDF documents and images for annotation or export their work in several formats. Additional capabilities include multiple document tabs, customizable backgrounds, autosaving, printing, and command-line automation.

Slate is a fast, simple text editor for Windows and Linux, including the Raspberry Pi: a better Notepad that opens files of any size. An 800 MB JSON file or log shows up in a fraction of a second and stays smooth to scroll and search, because Slate only reads and draws the part you're looking at. The everyday editing is all there: tabs that come back with your unsaved changes, find and replace with regular expressions, syntax colors for 52 languages, line tools, bookmarks and printing. For data files it adds JSON and XML formatting and checking with a structure view, and "show only matching lines" turns a huge log into just its errors. On Windows, Slate is one signed, portable Slate.exe that updates itself. On Linux it installs from a .deb with its own apt repository. Free and open source under the MIT license; the source is at github.com/jamesccupps/Slate.

Notabena is a simple command-line note-taking app. It supports Homebrew and different platforms. Notabena is licensed under GPL-3.0. Install it on Homebrew via: brew tap chiissu/macchiato brew install --HEAD notabena View our GitHub (https://github.com/ThatFrogDev/notabena) for more information.

Terminal-based markdown note manager to view statistics, explore connections and launch editing and viewing applications.