AS Notes VS Code extension
Shares rank 30 of 33 note-taking apps by recommenders
Adds personal knowledge management to VS Code with wikilinks, markdown tooling and GitHub Pages publishing, keeping data local with no accounts or sync.
Adds personal knowledge management to VS Code with wikilinks, markdown tooling and GitHub Pages publishing, keeping data local with no accounts or sync.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
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Wikilinks and markdown note linking
“By augmenting VS Code so it has the tooling we use in personal knowledge management systems, it makes it easy to write, link and update markdown / wikilinked notes manually”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “LLM Wiki” “my VS code extension which makes VS Code a personal knowledge management system, with linking and markdown tooling”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “It's time to move your docs in the repo” “It's markdown based, with wikilinks, mermaid diagrams, with the ability to publish to github pages etc.”
Comment from 4 Apr 2026 in “Why the heck are we still using Markdown?” - Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian”
No cloud sync or accounts
“designed to be version control friendly so no sync server is needed either”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian” “Your data stays local. No cloud sync, no telemetry, no accounts.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)” “There's no cloud sync, no accounts, no telemetry.”
Comment from 3 Mar 2026 on Hacker News - Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian”
Git and version control friendly
“I wanted and thought others would want something that is a) open source and b) version control friendly”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian” “designed to be version control friendly so no sync server is needed either”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian” “It runs locally and is Git friendly.”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian” Static sites without platform lock-in
“It's markdown based, with wikilinks, mermaid diagrams, with the ability to publish to github pages etc.”
Comment from 4 Apr 2026 in “Why the heck are we still using Markdown?” “I've designed it so that I was not dependent on any platform for my static sites.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “The End of Eleventy” “for managing documentation and blogs in VS Code / Markdown”
Comment from 4 Apr 2026 in “The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS”
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See all 33 note-taking apps, rankedWhat people said
16 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I have an freemium VS code extension that is converting well”
“awesome, your notes and music theory apps are very close to two of my hobby projects as well”
“It's a plugin for VSCode. I've long since moved to Zed and don't want to wrangle multiple editors”
“The extended demo really looks incredible.”
“It runs locally and is Git friendly.”
“designed to be version control friendly so no sync server is needed either”
“I wanted and thought others would want something that is a) open source and b) version control friendly”
“I've designed it so that I was not dependent on any platform for my static sites.”
“The key thing for easy zettlekasten management is really good wikilink support in markdown.”
“I've found working with my notes like this really useful”
“By augmenting VS Code so it has the tooling we use in personal knowledge management systems, it makes it easy to write, link and update markdown / wikilinked notes manually”
“for managing documentation and blogs in VS Code / Markdown”
“It's markdown based, with wikilinks, mermaid diagrams, with the ability to publish to github pages etc.”
“my VS code extension which makes VS Code a personal knowledge management system, with linking and markdown tooling”
“Your data stays local. No cloud sync, no telemetry, no accounts.”
“There's no cloud sync, no accounts, no telemetry.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.