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24 alternatives to Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk
Hi! This is an infinite canvas note-taking tool where notes are laid out in a non-Euclidean, hyperbolic geometric space. As you drag and navigate through the view, you’ll experience a unique fluid distortion that naturally leverages your brain's spatial memory. I’ve been obsessed with the concept of space in HCI for years. Many modern UI patterns are essentially workarounds for the lack of screen real estate. While researching zoom-based UIs a while back, I stumbled upon old HCI papers that used the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane to organize data. It elegantly projects an…
This is an infinite canvas note-taking application that organizes notes using hyperbolic geometry within a Poincaré disk model. As users navigate and drag through the interface, the non-Euclidean space creates fluid… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.
2022 · obsidian.md · its alternatives →
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Noteey▲279The all-in-one infinite canvas app for thinking and creation
2024 · noteey.com · its alternatives →
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NodeLand▲533Hello, HN! Have you ever considered that you might be a visual thinker? A lot of studies emphasize the benefits of visual thinking in learning, as it activates different parts of the brain and enhances comprehension and retention. It is common, for example, to remind yourself of a concept by visualizing the page where you wrote it down. This is because the brain is more likely to remember visual information than text. Unlike traditional linear note-taking apps like Notion and Evernote, NodeLand introduces a revolutionary connection-based model. Everything you write is seamlessly integrated…
2024 · nodeland.io · its alternatives →
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So I've been working on this app for a very long time now. Started off by wanting an app that separates long form notes from short form notes visually and keeps everything organized on a canvas. The app features: -Sticky notes for quick, small notes and A4 notes for long form documents -A quick mode that uses local storage to quickly open the app and jot down a thought on the canvas -A PDF export option that exports your notes into 3 custom designed PDF styles -Visual hierarchy to replicate file structure instead of a linear fashion, where your files are notes, stacks are folders and labels…
Jul 2026 · passinote.app · its alternatives →
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Ever since I remember I had a lot of curiosity regarding hyper dimensional spaces. Picturing higher dimensions, such an impossible yet exciting idea... So years ago I came across a small GIF of a tesseract. Since then it left me wondering how cubes from even higher dimensions would look like... Years passed and I became a software developer, decided to tackle the problem myself and ncube was the result. ncube allows you to visualize rotating hypercubes of arbitrary dimensions. It works by rotating the hyperdimensional vertices and applying a chain of perspective projections to them until the…
2023 · ncube.ndavd.com · its alternatives →
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Nototo▲265The spatial workspace - organize everything on one canvas
2021 · nototo.app · its alternatives →
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Creating high-quality scientific figures can be time-consuming and challenging, even though sketching ideas on paper is relatively easy. Furthermore, recreating existing figures that are not stored in formats preserving semantic information is equally complex. To tackle this problem, we introduce DeTikZify, a novel multimodal language model that automatically synthesizes scientific figures as semantics-preserving TikZ graphics programs based on sketches and existing figures. We also introduce a Monte Carlo Tree Search-based inference algorithm that enables DeTikZify to iteratively refine its…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spine Canvas▲227Hey HN Community! We're excited to introduce Spine, a tool we've been developing for the past month that aims to streamline the process of building and sharing AI-driven natural language interfaces like ChatGPT for various data formats. With Spine, you can: * Upload numerous data types such as websites, PDFs, docs, PowerPoints, CSVs, audio files, YouTube videos, and more * Navigate lots of data and get in-depth referenced results with our hybrid search * Built-in Feedback: Craft accurate, personalized & adaptive experiences -- we will update the search models and eventually your LLM with the…
Nov 2025 · getspine.ai · its alternatives →
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I'm developing Hyperstep[0], a spatial language for music production. I find using existing DAWs frustrating because they don't allow me to navigate and operate intuitively on the latent spaces behind my musical ideas. This is why I've decided to build my own set of "seeing tools".(Bret Victor)[1]. I'm also convinced that by framing music as processes and interactions in the 3D world, spatialization and mixing should become fairly pain-free. I'm still early in development and I would love to build this into an actual product that can be integrated into existing DAWs or even turn it into a…
2022 · a-sumo.github.io · its alternatives →
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Edit: Thank you so much for taking a look at Seen! Yes, I know, it's really slow. And scrolling does not render notes instantly. And the title is a bit clickbait-y. I'll try my best to improve on it though. This is just a preview, the most basic version of Seen, and it's getting there. But, oh God, I almost got a heart attack when I opened up Vercel Analytics and saw ~1,500 page views, up from 10 or 12. Thank you again! It's such a weird experience showing something to the world for the first time as a 16-year-old and seeing so many people look at it. Hello HN! I've been working on creating…
2025 · seen-v2.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Outpainting with Stable Diffusion on an infinite canvas - lkwq007/stablediffusion-infinity
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · alpha.hiroapp.com · its alternatives →
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Explore tilings on the hyperbolic plane. Contribute to timhutton/hyperplay development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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Brainio▲190Brainio combines rich-text notes with visual mind maps. Organize your thoughts, link ideas, and collaborate in real time across desktop and web.
2020 · brainio.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I made this simple notepad for writing down whatever comes to mind. The goal is to force you to not get hung up on what you’ve already written. There’s no formatting, you can’t edit what you’ve typed, you can’t select text or move your caret around. There’s no backspace, delete, undo/redo, or paste. You can’t even see any words except the one you’re currently typing, and when you’re done with it, it fades away. The text is all still there, just invisible. You can save everything you’ve written as a .txt if you want, or just empty your thoughts and let them disappear forever.…
2025 · enda.sh · its alternatives →
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Browser Notes▲128Your ideas, organized - not uploaded
Jul 2026 · browsernotes.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I was wondering if a Poincaré disk would be able to usefully show the local structure of a graph while showing most of one I used a collection of ML papers to explore this
Mar 2026 · paperverse.net · its alternatives →
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Track places, times, thoughts, and information.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, HN Community! I'm a Brazilian software engineer, and my educational journey led to a significant discovery. During my master's degree, I often struggled to recall foundational concepts studied years earlier, which were crucial for my current studies. This challenge sparked a reevaluation of traditional note-taking and inspired the creation of cmaps.io. Human thinking is inherently associative, not linear. We often draw connections between learned concepts unconsciously. To leverage this natural process, making these connections explicit is essential – and that's precisely what cmaps.io…
2023 · cmaps.io · its alternatives →
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A GTK3 hierarchical markdown notetaking application with tablet support. - blackhole89/notekit
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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