Launched this week
AS Notes
Turn your IDE into a personal knowledge management system
31 followers
Turn your IDE into a personal knowledge management system
31 followers
AS Notes brings markdown and [[wikilink]] editing for notes, documentation, blogs and wiki publishing directly into VS Code and compatible editors (e.g. Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf). Capture ideas, link concepts, write, and stay focused - without ever leaving your editor.
The AS Notes VS Code Extension provides productivity tooling that turns your favourite IDE into a personal knowledge management system (PKMS), including a backlinks view, task management, journals, a kanban board, markdown editing tools, mermaid, LaTeX math support and Jekyll / Hugo like publishing.
Markdown with wikilinks in notes are a fast and efficient means of capturing and linking information both for building personal knowledge bases and for generating documentation.
The problem is that many PKMS tools (even those that use markdown) lean towards specific use cases and information structures, which makes them unsuitable for software developers who often need to work in their IDE along side code and documentation (VS Code being the most popular IDE in the world in 2026), or may be restricted in the tools they are allowed to install in corporate work environments. AS Notes is also compatible with VS Code forks like Cursor
AS Notes aims to be the "Swiss Army Knife" of knowledge management tools. It goes much further than markdown and wikilinks. It is in itself a markdown editor with inline styling, Mermaid and LaTeX rendering, and includes a backlink view, task management, a kanban board, templating and more. AS Notes supports standard markdown and outliner mode, and supports flat file systems or any folder structure. AS Notes can be used to manage your personal knowledge base or be used for publishing static docs and blog sites.
All of this is alongside an already capable editor in VS Code, with a rich extension library that you can use in conjunction with AS Notes.
@gareth_brown2 Kudos on the launch. One question: how does the backlinks view handle large workspaces (say, 5k+ notes), and any perf tips for Cursor users?
@swati_paliwal Thank you for the question. AS Notes has been tested on 20k+ markdown files and is performant at that scale on average hardware.