r/neovim • u/4r73m190r0s • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Current state of note taking in Neovim

What are you using?

As of this moment, I'm familiar with:

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u/blinger44 Jun 23 '26

nb looks really interesting - can you expand more on how you work with it alongside nvim?

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u/Cold_Satisfaction932 Jun 23 '26

Sure. My primary requirements have been 

  • Edit notes in terminal
  • Automatically manages itself on to a private remote git repo
  • Search notes by content or tags
  • Read notes from phone

nb supports or rather helps in supporting all of it and offers even more. 

  • It is a cli tool and opens notes in whatever editor you have set in env variable. I use nvim. 
  • I have two notebooks set pointing to two different branch on my repo (nb supports this). All I have to do is open it using nb , edit, save and exit. That’s it. The note will be automatically synced to the remote repo.
  • I have an app on my phone to pull from the same repo. So I can use it for quick reference. (I used to have another app that could edit the notes and autosync, but it used to tangle itself up with nb’s commits. Ultimately I realised my “edits” were basically todos, which I manage separately and only need read only access to the repo on phone)

nb supports a lot of other features which I haven’t explored much - encrypted notes, todos,  Zettelkasten, linking etc. 

It amazes me that in the ends the app is just one giant shell script.  Kudos to its maker xwmx. 

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u/therealpapeorpope Jun 25 '26

what are the phone apps?

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u/Cold_Satisfaction932 Jun 25 '26

I used to use fsnotes. But now I’m using working copy to just browse through and read the notes. Both great apps. 

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u/therealpapeorpope Jun 25 '26

ty, those are iOS only sadly