MedleyText

Last time I tried it, it didn't handle unicode very well. It was a year ago and, when I saved the documents, things like "à" would turn to Chinese characters. Apart from this, I liked it a lot. Now I just use VIM and pandoc for PDFs.

So it's like jupyter notebooks but you can't execute the code?

Alternative - Boostnote.App https://boostnote.io/

Every month or so I see people attempting to create the perfect note-taking system for developers and none are up to the task, they're mostly electron laggy apps which cause more frustration than solves the problem.

A tip if you're designing something like this. Be fast, responsible and keyboard first. The time to take a note (flush your brain) shouldn't interrupt your current task and should be as mechanical as possible.

I've been using the same note take system for the last two years. It just works as expected. It's as fast as my terminal can be and I can use org or MD if needed.

  postit@workstation:~# cat bin/logbook 
  #!/bin/sh

  TS=$(date +'%H:%M:%S')
  DS=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
  cd ~/txt/logbook/
  joe $DS.md && git add . && git commit -am "Updating $DS entry on $TS" && git push
  exit

I have the bin on my path and a keyboard shortcut that fires up a terminal and opens the script. If I need to find something I can ag/grep the folder, and if I'm away from my computer, everything is available on GitHub.

ps: I decided to use joe in the script because it's the fastest text editor by far to start on my system, you can stick to your own solution.

Personally NVAlt is the only note app I use (and SimpleNote on iOS) It's all synced, easily searchable, it's my universal scratch pad.