note.md

Local-first markdown based workspace for research writings

Writing

Notes

Education

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m a master’s student, and notemd started as something I wanted for myself. When I began preparing for my thesis, I realized my research workflow was spread across too many places: PDFs in one tool, notes somewhere else, citations in another app, and half my thinking hidden across browser tabs. At first, I just wanted to build my own local version of Confluence. I always liked the structured workspace feeling, but Confluence never felt designed for a single person building their own academic knowledge base. Then, while writing papers for university, the project kept growing. I didn’t just want a place to write notes anymore. I wanted one workspace where I could read literature, manage sources, write articles, cite directly from PDFs, and keep the whole project structured. Over time, that evolved into notemd: an all-in-one academic workspace for reading, writing, citing, and organizing research. The newest step has been integrating local AI models to automate some of the repetitive research work, like extracting charts, tables, and images from papers, searching semantically through literature, or finding a supporting source for a claim without manually digging through dozens of PDFs. I built notemd because I wanted research to feel less fragmented and more focused. I’d love to hear what you think.