notebooks

What is notebooks and what is it for?

notebooks is a Holochain app from Lightningrod Labs that gives a group one shared document several people can write in at the same time, either as the notes tool of a Moss workspace or on its own. It is the collaborative text-editing piece of the suite of small tools Moss groups assemble, and its source is public on GitHub.

notebooks is a Holochain app for writing together in real time. It gives a group one shared document that several people can type into at once, as the collaborative Markdown notes tool of a Moss workspace. It is built by Lightningrod Labs, the team behind Moss.

Lightningrod Labs describes notebooks as a capability for The Weave and for use in Moss, and also as a stand-alone Holochain app. Moss lets a group assemble its own suite of small tools, and notebooks supplies the text-editing one; the same repository is packaged so the app can be installed on its own. The project has been worked on since 2021 by a small group of contributors, most prominently guillemcordoba and zippy.

A common use is a group drafting a document together in Moss: open notebooks in the group's space and each person's edits appear for the others as they type, in one shared Markdown document. Developers who want to run it outside Moss follow the repository README, building the webhapp inside a nix-shell and installing it with the Holochain Launcher.

From 3 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.