Boost Note is a robust, open-source note-taking and documentation tool specifically designed with developers, teams, and individuals in need of a powerful organization and collaboration platform.
What Boost Note Does
Boost Note serves as a versatile tool for taking notes, editing Markdown and code snippets, and managing documentation. It is built to cater to the needs of developers, designers, and teams, offering a comprehensive solution for knowledge management, collaboration, and productivity.Key Features
Organization and Search
- Boost Note allows users to organize their notes using folders and tags, making it easy to search and locate specific documents. The app supports searching within specific folders or across all notes, and it includes a rich search functionality with a fuzzy search modal.
Editing Experience
- The application provides an IDE-like UI with support for Markdown and code snippets. It includes features such as syntax highlighting, live-preview of Markdown, and auto-formatting of Markdown tables. Users can also customize the editor with various themes, font sizes, and indentation settings. Additionally, Boost Note supports Vim and Emacs keybindings, making it appealing to developers.
Collaboration
- Boost Note enables real-time co-authoring in Markdown, allowing multiple team members to work on documents simultaneously. It also includes features like comments, mentions, and viewer options, where viewers can add comments but cannot edit the documents.
Integration and Automation
- The app integrates with over 4,000 third-party apps via Zapier, enabling users to automate their workflow by emitting and listening to external events. It also supports public APIs for programmatic document management.
Document Management
- Users can import documents from other tools like Notion, Confluence, Evernote, and more. Boost Note also allows exporting documents into PDF, HTML, and Markdown formats. The app maintains a version history of documents, enabling easy rollbacks to previous versions.
Customization and Visualization
- Boost Note offers customizable document properties such as progress status, assignees, reviewers, and due dates. It also supports embedding external content like YouTube videos, GitHub issues, and pull requests. Diagrams using Charts.js, Mermaid, and PlantUML are also supported.
Cross-Platform Availability
- The application is available on multiple platforms, including web, desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux), and mobile apps (iOS and Android, though the mobile app is in beta).
Additional Features
- Boost Note includes features like bi-directional document linking, allowing users to connect related documents easily. It also supports hotkeys for efficient navigation and editing.