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Show HN: I built a Notion for science (stempad.io)
13 points by tornope 22 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I struggle with handwritten notes, but it's always been the primary way to write scientific notes. To do scientific writing on existing keyboard-and-mouse tools generally requires either significant knowledge of the software, the use of screenshotting/exporting from external tools, or (often) both.

That's why I made Stempad, which is meant to rival the speed of pen-and-paper for scientific writing. I've currently added 7 different scientific blocks (and several basic blocks too) and plan to continuously add more.

Questions are welcome, and preliminary feedback or constructive criticism is really appreciated!

(If you're on mobile or would prefer to see a demo, here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9j8sFIkS4)




The demo looks promising. I can see myself using it for my ML modeling logs.


Love it! I use latex today but this seems much faster. Will it a try


cant we do this in notion like adding plots or equations? (I haven't tried it on notion yet). If not then this seems to be an amazing product.


Thanks! Equations are technically possible on notion, but the input format is pure latex. Charts are possible but are added through integrations and require manual data input rather than being able to plot equations. The difference with Stempad is it's optimized to be all-in-one fast and lightweight, and has a wider array of scientific blocks (chem, circuits, drawing, etc.)


Awesome work then!


Instead of a separate platform, it would be nice to have a Obsidian plugin that does exactly this!




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