itsnotes
by itsnotes · Self-hosted sticky notes with folders and Google Keep imports
BenchRank score
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Overview
itsnotes is a self-hosted, open-source note-taking app presented as an alternative to Google Keep. It keeps the sticky-note layout and adds navigation, timeline markers, list views and basic folders. Notes can be brought across through direct imports from Google Keep or from Markdown (.md) files, and a demo is linked from the homepage.
- Best for
- People who want to self-host a Google Keep-style note app and import their existing notes.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown on the captured page; the product describes itself only as open-source and self-hosted.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Self-hosted and open-source, per its own description
- Direct imports from Google Keep and Markdown .md files
- Adds folders, list views and timeline markers to sticky notes
- Demo available without installing anything
Trade-offs
- Self-hosting means you run and maintain the server yourself
- Folders are described as basic
- No pricing, licence or system requirements shown on the captured page
- Captured text covers notes only; no sync or collaboration detail
Pricing
Published plans and prices from itsnotes’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The itsnotes pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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