Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HACK YOUR NOTEBOOK
Literacy, craft, and code through paper and electronics.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HACK YOUR NOTEBOOK launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Enhance your reading and journaling habits with a 1$ hack
2024 · philwornath.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Learning numerical computing with notebooks for all ages. - eka-foundation/numerical-computing-is-fun
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wrights Notes▲217Notebooks with customized paper just for you
2016 · wrightsnotes.com · its alternatives →
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Hack Club▲182Free and open source high school coding clubs 👊💥
2016 · hackclub.com · its alternatives →
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Paper Website▲313Start a tiny website from your notebook
2021 · paperwebsite.com · its alternatives →
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Open Notebook▲144Open Notebook is a tool where you can upload your own sources - PDFs (textbooks, research papers), Github repos, documentation websites, and other URLs. Once uploaded, you can either chat with an AI about them or run “apps” on top of those sources. Apps can be anything. Right now, I’ve built the following: - turn articles into short video overviews - create a mind map of the source - create summaries or other reports about the source - generate quizzes or flashcards to help study the source You can also remix existing apps or create one from scratch. I built this because I wanted to make…
2025 · noodleflow.ai · its alternatives →
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Mod Notebooks▲186A paper notebook that syncs to the cloud
2014 · modnotebooks.com · its alternatives →
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Documenting Sketchapp artboards made easy
2014 · marcosvid.al · its alternatives →
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For the last few years, I've been working at a non-profit called Hack Club developing tools to support self-motivated teens to learn about technology and build community with other like-minded peers while doing so. This has resulted in the development of a model called "you ship, we ship." We build open source creative coding environments, and when teenagers share the projects they make with these tools, we send them materials to dive deeper into the subject and related technologies. Our approach is predicated on the constructionist idea that people learn best by building things they care…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Paper▲143A 200-page digital notebook for journaling and writing
Jan 2026 · paperjournaling.space · its alternatives →
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NimbleNotes▲135The digital notebook that helps you study.
2015 · nimblenotes.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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Paper 4.0▲181Arrange sketches and notes in your online journal
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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One document with code, text, math, charts and rich media.
2014 · ipython.org · its alternatives →
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Betabook▲82The portable whiteboard for the digital age (Kickstarter)
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Red Paper Plane▲118Design thinking for 3-6 year olds, parents and educators
2016 · rpplane.com · its alternatives →
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