Date: May 6, 2026 Category: Open Source Software / Productivity Reading Time: 6 minutes

wget https://repo.hnstudy.org/apt/takenoter_1.0_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i takenoter_1.0_amd64.deb The DMG is available, but note that v1.0 is not notarized by Apple. You will need to right-click and select "Open" to bypass Gatekeeper. First Run Experience Upon launching TakenoteR -v1.0- By HNStudy , you are not greeted with a "Welcome" wizard. Instead, you see a blank, dark grey screen with a single blinking cursor and a footer displaying three keybinds: Ctrl+N (New Note), Ctrl+Shift+F (Fuzzy Search), and Esc (Command Palette).

This is intimidating for casual users but liberating for power users. The Command Palette ( Esc ) is the central nervous system of the app. Type theme: solarized to change UI colors, or backup: now to force a manual export. We tested TakenoteR v1.0 against Google Keep and Standard Notes on a 2018 ThinkPad with 8GB of RAM.