Axiom - offline visual note-taking app
Hello everyone,
I've been creating a note-taking app tailored to my particular needs, and thought, why not share it with everyone?
It's a minimalistic, offline, markdown-based, visual-canvas-style app with Excalidraw features.
I'm a right-brainer who gets confused when trying to linearize things. So the app is for working with several notes simultaneously, including Excalidraw drawings. Another thing I tried to do was nudge toward a writing-first, organizing-later approach. You can create notes by selecting a part of the text.

Note that I'm not a software developer myself; I know a little about coding and made the whole thing with Cursor. So the code is not perfect. Feel free to make it better. I won't say no to a professional look.
One thing I couldn't resolve is that I use .excalidraw as the file extension, but Obsidian uses .excalidraw.md. I think the primary use case is to use it alongside Obsidian, but it isn't possible with Excalidraw for now.
See the release: https://github.com/guldselendal/axiom/releases/tag/release
Selen
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Congratulations on having your own app! It looks great.
I don't know Typescript/Javascript myself, so I can't help you with it, but I hope you make a lot of progress with it.
Cool, I love that LLM's enabled you to accomplish this. 2026 will be very interesting in that regard, empowering tech-savvy users to write their own bespoke tools -- like the computers we were meant to be having
i
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Thank you for your kind wishes!
I know, right? I only know about the incremental mindset of software development and a bit OOP. That's it. All the rest is Cursor.
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