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24 alternatives to Slash Notes
The easiest way to recall your notes. Without leaving Slack.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Slash Notes launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Slash▲564A productivity machine that forces you to do tasks 1-by-1
2019 · getslash.co · its alternatives →
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Slashit App▲314Turn your common text into shortcuts and work faster with AI
2025 · slashit.app · its alternatives →
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I've been working on Recall for a while now, it had some initial traction in the beginning which has since died down now. I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project. I just put out a new release and it would be helpful to get advice from the community on what they think of the idea and my implementation.
2022 · recall-app.com · its alternatives →
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Slash 1.0▲477Get more done than ever before with the first DO app.
2020 · getslash.co · its alternatives →
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Better Notes▲357Simple notes app that ties notes together with #hashtags
2016 · betternotesapp.com · its alternatives →
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Dumbnote▲141Offline-first Markdown note app. No lock-in. Just write.
2025 · dumbnote.app · its alternatives →
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Notepad▲113A rich, distraction-free alternative to sticky notes 📋
2018 · notepad.microtheta.com · its alternatives →
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NoteThisDown▲162Your handwritten notes straight to Notion. In seconds.
2024 · note-this-down.com · its alternatives →
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Paper▲111🚀 An offline note taking app with "networkless" sharing
2019 · paperapp.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Nimble Notes▲107The anti-Evernote. Fast, dead-simple note-taking.
2019 · app.notion.com · its alternatives →
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A notebook with pages that can be removed & reordered
2014 · sorta.la · its alternatives →
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We created Slash (https://getslash.co/hn) after realizing that todo list apps are hopelessly broken. They're great at making lists, but offer you no help in crossing them off. In fact, they often create even more stress when you're staring at a list 100 items longs. Slash is a task "do-er" that helps you CRUSH your list by focusing on one task at a time. Quickly enter your tasks, hit 'Start', and the window shrinks down to a small always-on-top window that shows your current task and how long you've been working on it. When you're done, hover over the task name and click…
2019 · its alternatives →
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