# Passinote Passinote is a canvas-based note-taking web app that showed up on Show HN. The founding idea: visually separate short-form from long-form notes. Quick thoughts go on sticky notes, documents go on A4 pages, and everything lives together on a spatial canvas instead of a linear list. The organizing model replaces folders with position: notes are your files, stacks are your folders, labels name the stacks. Where you place something IS the organization. A quick mode uses local storage so you can open the app and jot a thought without waiting for anything to load, and a PDF export renders notes into three designed styles. It's early-stage (solo developer, sign-up bugs in the HN thread, feature requests pouring in), but the spatial concept resonated. One commenter compared it to OneNote "when it was new and good": click anywhere, write, arrange. That's the same instinct behind [[Obsidian Canvas]], and a recurring theme in [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)]]: for some brains, spatial arrangement beats hierarchy. Note stacking as a visual metaphor for grouping is the original touch here. ## References - Website: https://www.passinote.app/ - Show HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971847 ## Related - [[Obsidian Canvas]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)]]