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Note-Taking App

A template for a note taking app that gives your team a shared workspace with live cursors, rich formatting, and instant sync, ready to customize in hours.

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Designed for

  • Teams replacing scattered docs with one shared workspace
  • Organizing meeting notes, decisions & project context
  • Managing client-facing project updates with guest access
  • Drafting and reviewing async standups across time zones

Key highlights

  • Real-time cursors
  • Threaded comments
  • Slash command menu
  • Guest access sharing
  • Folder & tag organization
  • Chat panel

Technology stack

Libraries

  • shadcn/ui
  • Tiptap
  • Yjs
  • DnD Kit
  • TanStack
  • Supabase
  • Recharts

Deployment

  • Lovable
  • GitHub

About this template

This template gives you a collaborative note-taking app that looks professional and works the moment you open it. Unlike generic note taking templates that offer static pages or basic text fields, this one ships with real-time collaboration, threaded comments, and a chat panel built in. You don't need to know how to code or stitch together separate tools.

The technical parts are already handled. Live cursors and presence indicators show who's editing. Yjs-powered sync keeps every change consistent across users. Authentication, role-based sharing, and guest access are wired up through Supabase. All of it done. You can focus on writing, organizing, and collaborating with your team.

What's included: a public marketing landing page with testimonials and a gradient CTA banner, a fully interactive public demo (no sign-up required), an authenticated workspace with a note drawer, folder organization, tagging, search, and sort controls, plus a rich TipTap editor with slash commands, task lists, tables, inline images, mentions, and a selection toolbar. Sharing, threaded comments with reactions, and a slide-in chat panel round out the collaboration layer.

You could piece this together from a docs editor, a chat widget, a landing page builder, and an auth service. That takes weeks and leaves you maintaining four integrations. This template combines all of it into one codebase you own.

Team knowledge base

Centralize meeting notes, decisions, and project context in one place your whole team can search. When onboarding new hires, point them to a single workspace instead of forwarding email threads. Teams that keep shared docs current cut repeated questions and reclaim hours each week.

Client-facing project notes

Share a note with a client using the guest access toggle. They see your progress, leave comments in context, and stay informed without scheduling a status call. Agencies that replace update emails with live shared docs close feedback loops faster and bill fewer revision cycles.

Personal research and writing

Use folders and tags to organize reading notes, drafts, and reference material. The slash menu lets you build structured outlines with headings, checklists, and code blocks. Writers and researchers who keep their note taking templates organized publish faster because they spend less time hunting for sources.

Async standup and decision logs

Create a recurring note for daily standups or weekly syncs. Team members add their updates throughout the day. The threaded comment system captures follow-up questions without cluttering the main document. Distributed teams that log decisions in shared notes reduce "what did we agree on?" messages by replacing memory with a written record.

Getting Started

1. Remix this template

Click Remix to create your own copy. You get the full codebase: landing page, demo, editor, workspace, and all Supabase configuration. If this template isn't the right fit, you can remix a different one. No wasted work.

2. Customize your brand

Open style-pack.css and change the --brand variable to your color. The entire app updates: buttons, active states, links, and the landing page gradient. Swap the Google Sans Flex font family for your own typeface, adjust the border radius, and replace the Notepad wordmark with your logo. These are single-variable changes, not design-system rebuilds.

3. Add your content

Edit the landing page copy in src/pages/landing/ to match your product voice. Replace the placeholder testimonials and logo wall with real customer quotes and partner logos. Update the demo seed document in src/data/demo-doc.ts to showcase content relevant to your audience. Create starter folders and tags that match your team's workflow.

4. Connect your tools

Supabase handles auth, database, real-time sync, and file storage out of the box. Configure Google and Apple OAuth in your Supabase dashboard. The send-invite edge function handles email invitations: update the hardcoded project URL to your domain. If you need notifications, connect a webhook from Supabase to your preferred email or Slack integration.

5. Go live

Deploy through Lovable with one click. Point your custom domain, verify that OAuth redirects resolve correctly, and share the link. Your team can start writing and collaborating the same afternoon. Monitor usage through Supabase's built-in dashboard to see active users, document counts, and storage consumption.

Conclusion

This note-taking template works for teams, writers, and agencies who want a shared workspace that feels custom without the cost of building from scratch. You get real-time collaboration without managing WebSocket infrastructure, rich formatting without assembling editor plugins, and a polished landing page without hiring a designer.

Your first workspace can be live this afternoon. Remix the template, change the brand color, update the copy, and invite your team. Every hour you spend searching for the right combination of note taking templates is an hour you could spend writing in your own branded workspace.

Features & capabilities

  • Live collaborative editing

    Multiple users type in the same document simultaneously. Yjs sync and colored cursors show each person's position and edits in real time.

  • Rich text slash menu

    Type a forward slash to insert headings, task lists, tables, code blocks, images, and blockquotes without leaving the keyboard.

  • Threaded inline comments

    Select any text and start a comment thread. Teammates reply in context, add reactions, and resolve threads when discussion is complete.

  • Slide-in chat panel

    Open a per-document chat sidebar for quick conversations. Includes replies, reactions, typing indicators, and an unread badge.

  • Role-based sharing and guests

    Invite collaborators by email as editors or viewers. Toggle guest access so external users can view or edit without creating an account.

  • Folder and tag organization

    Group notes into folders and apply multiple tags. Filter, search, and sort the note drawer by date, title, or tag to find anything quickly.

  • Public interactive demo

    A fully working editor loads at /demo with no sign-up. Visitors type, format, and explore the product before committing to an account.

  • Marketing landing page

    Ships with a polished public page featuring a gradient hero, logo wall, testimonial cards, and dual CTAs driving visitors to the demo and sign-up.

  • Inline image uploads

    Drag, drop, or paste images directly into any note. Files upload to Supabase Storage and render inline alongside your text.