About Notanic

Our Mission

I’m Oskar, the developer behind Notanic. Like many of you, I’ve spent years bouncing between different notetaking tools.
As a student, OneNote was the only app I actually enjoyed using. The flexibility of infinite pages and decent cross-platform support made it feel natural. But over time, OneNote started to feel outdated, and it never really got the attention it deserved from Microsoft.

For other parts of my life, I ended up juggling tools:

• OneNote for school notes and diagrams.
• Obsidian for coding-related notes and Markdown.
• Excalidraw for brainstorming and visual collaboration.

The problem? None of them could cover all my use cases. I wanted one app powerful enough to handle everything - flexible like OneNote, formatting using Markdown like Obsidian, and visual like Excalidraw. That’s why I started building Notanic.

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Why build another notetaking app?

There are plenty of notetaking apps already, but most fall into one of two camps:

• They’re too rigid, forcing you into a specific workflow.
• Or they’re too minimal, requiring endless plugins or hacks.

I wanted something in between: a modern, feature-rich notetaking app that still feels natural and gets out of your way. It should be totally neutral and unopinionated in how you take notes. Notanic is my attempt at that.

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What we stand for

• Free and local-first. Notanic has a local version that uses an open file format (based on TLDRAW). That means your notes belong to you, not to me.
• Optional cloud sync. To fund development, there’s a paid cloud option. It’s completely optional - if you want sync and collaboration, it’s there. If you don’t, you can keep everything local.
• Community-driven. I don’t want to build this in a vacuum. The plan is to work closely with users, listen to feedback, and ship features people actually want. That’s why I set up a community Discord, feel free to share your feedback and ideas.

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The plan

The long-term goal is simple:
Notanic should be the one notetaking app that works for every use case.

Whether you’re a student taking lecture notes, a developer embedding code snippets, or a designer sketching diagrams - you shouldn’t need three different apps. One tool should be enough.

Notanic is my vision for that tool: modern, flexible, and built around how people actually take notes today.

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Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone who’s already supporting and testing Notanic. This project is just getting started - and I’m excited to see where the community takes it.

Try Notanic today

Get started with Notanic Cloud for just $5.99/month - enjoy sync across all your devices, web access, and real-time collaboration.

Or, use the local-first version for free with open file formats that stay under your control.

Start taking notes the way you want - Download Notanic today.