Show HN: mib – A 300KiB Vim-Style Markdown Scratchpad for Linux / Wayland
I tend to make a lot of scratch notes as a way to help me think. These usually don't last very long and what does survive usually ends up in a git repo, a wiki or (most often) just gets thrown away. I was using Obsidian for this, but gosh, 4 or 5 Electron processes just for throwaway notes seemed like overkill. Neovim is a better fit but I like it just the way it is for coding and didn't want to install any image plug-ins for that. mib is a bit like a basic Vim editor, with a few Obsidian featur
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2026-11-11 20:00:17.870Z
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Repository: osigurdson/mib. Source account: I tend to make a lot of scratch notes as a way to help me think. These usually don't last very long and what does survive usually ends up in a git repo, a wiki or (most often) just gets thrown away. I was using Obsidian for this, but gosh, 4 or 5 Electron processes just for throwaway notes seemed like overkill. Neovim is a better fit but I like it just the way it is for coding and didn't want to install any image plug-ins for that. mib is a bit like a basic Vim editor, with a few Obsidian featur
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Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 11, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Lettercamp – open-source static blog framework” (Show HN, Nov 11, 2026); “openai/codex-security” (GitHub Trending, Nov 11, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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