# Ledge.sh

24 Hacker News commenters recommended Ledge.sh and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a simple way to run commands and code inside Markdown notes, including on mobile; the most common caveat is that it resembles Jupyter notebooks.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs code inside Markdown documentation (3 comments): "I love the idea of having documentation that I can just run directly as I'm reading through it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912304)) "Shells are interactive by default. Mobile apps can run the shell/code." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910117)) "Runnable Markdown notes with shell commands is neat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918580))
- Useful for team documentation (2 comments): "it solves my biggest gripes with org-babel which prevent me from using it in a team setting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911985)) "I can foresee my team using this for documenting our local tooling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918344))
- Works on mobile (2 comments): "Shells are interactive by default. Mobile apps can run the shell/code." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910117)) "This is really cool, and I love the mobile support too!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912189))

## What people warn about

- Too similar to Jupyter notebooks (2 comments): "I believe you'd be better off not calling this a "notebook" at all" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911784)) "Oh great, another Jupyter-esque project..." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919219))
- Similar tools already exist (2 comments): "I like the concept, I know there have been some other things in the general area" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920006)) "I just think this is cool and it could be better differentiated." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911973))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Obsidian](https://hackerapproved.com/p/obsidian.md): 447 recommend
- [Org mode](https://hackerapproved.com/p/org-mode.md): 175 recommend
- [Notion](https://hackerapproved.com/p/notion.md): 91 recommend
- [Logseq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/logseq.md): 52 recommend
- [Apple Notes](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-notes.md): 39 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ledge.sh", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ledge-sh/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).