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app.janta.dev

21 points by Isaac-Westaway 3 days ago

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!

yocoda 3 days ago

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-Westaway 3 days ago

    Thank you so much! Lot's more is on the way :-]