RISING · PRODUCTIVITY APPS

Notes, knowledge management and getting things done. The Productivity Apps repositories breaking out right now, ranked by relative momentum: daily growth against their own size, so real risers surface instead of the giants that merely add the most stars in absolute terms.

catalog of 2026-08-30 · velocity is a trailing pace, up to 7 days · the one history nobody else keeps

1. 01virgiliojr94/book-to-skillPythonTurn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.27K ★▲ 0.8%/day221/d
2. 02lfnovo/open-notebookTypeScriptAn Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features38K ★▲ 0.2%/day80/d
3. 03firecrawl/pdf-inspectorRustFast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.17K ★▲ 0.2%/day33/d
4. 04microsoft/markitdownPythonPython tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.177K ★▲ 0.1%/day204/d
5. 05docling-project/doclingPythonGet your documents ready for gen AI66K ★▲ 0.1%/day43/d
6. 06toeverything/AFFiNETypeScriptThere can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privac72K ★▲ 31/day
7. 07usememos/memosGoOpen-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.63K ★▲ 25/day
8. 08AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowyDartBring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The le76K ★▲ 29/day