Author here. I wrote FromScratch to accommodate how I want note taking to work: it&#x27;s always an alt-tab away, it takes care of all the tedious bits (saving, window positioning) and allows me to very quickly take notes or update my TODO and get on with things.<p>It&#x27;s open source and cross-platform, built using Electron and React.<p>The main focus is to keep the note taking experience as simple as possible. Future expansions I want to add are automatic versioning (you can get that now by symlinking the ~&#x2F;fromscratch&#x2F;contents.txt file to something like dropbox) and support for multiple note-taking contexts.<p>Please let me know what you think!<p>Further reading on my blog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kilianvalkhof.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;web&#x2F;fromscratch-a-simple-but-smart-note-taking-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kilianvalkhof.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;web&#x2F;fromscratch-a-simple-but-...</a>