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Products that do what A simple Markdown note app with templates and PDF support does

A lightweight note-taking app built with Go + HTMX, featuring nested pages, templates, shared spaces, and OCR to make scanned PDFs searchable. The web app uses responsive design to make it scale to desktop or mobile.

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