A notes app that runs in the browser and keeps every note as a Markdown file in your own storage. These are its parts, with pictures of the real thing. It is free on one device; syncing them through your own Google Drive or Dropbox is what a subscription buys.
Writing
An editor that shows you formatted text and writes plain Markdown, with the file always one keystroke away.
Rich text that is really Markdown
The editor shows formatted text and saves Markdown. Type # for a heading, - for a list or [ ] for a task, or use the toolbar across the top; select some words and a small toolbar appears over them. Tables, quotes, dividers and fenced code blocks all come back from the file as the Markdown you would have typed.
Opening a note never rewrites it. A file written by another app is left byte for byte as it was until you change something, so nothing is tidied behind your back.
A slash menu for every block
Type / on an empty line and pick what goes there: headings, a bulleted, numbered or task list, a quote, a code block, a table, a divider, an image or a file. Keep typing to narrow the list, and Enter puts it in.
Every command, by name
Press Cmd/Ctrl+K and type: a new note, attach files, switch the editor, pin this note, download everything. The palette lists every command by name, so there is nothing to find in a menu first.
Markdown when you want it
Two buttons above the note switch between rich text and Markdown, per note, and the app remembers which you chose. Both edit the same file.
A note the rich editor could not show faithfully, with footnotes or a block of raw HTML, opens as Markdown with a line saying why, so nothing in it is ever dropped.
Pictures and files beside notes
A picture pasted or dropped into a note shows in place. Any other file, a PDF or a spreadsheet, shows as a chip with its name, which opens or downloads it. Files go beside the note in the same folder and travel with it when it moves, up to 25 MB each.
On a phone, a picture over 8 MiB that the device does not hold waits to be asked for, so scrolling past a photo does not spend your data.
Organising
Notebooks that are folders, search that asks everywhere, and addresses you can bookmark.
Notebooks that are folders
A notebook is a folder and a note is a file in it. Notebooks open and shut with the chevron or the arrow keys, and show how many notes they hold. Drag a note into another notebook, a notebook into another, or either back to the top. Pin a note or a notebook to the top of its list from its menu.
In your storage it is the same tree of folders and files, so a notebook you make here is a folder you can open there.
Search everything at once
The search field at the top asks every source at once, the notes on this device and every connected account, and shows what matched as you type. Pick a result and it opens where it lives, so you need not remember which account a note is in.
Links to notes, and a Back button that works
The address bar names the open note by its notebooks and its name, such as /#/work/q4-planning, and the tab’s title reads Work › Q4 planning. Back and Forward move between the notes and notebooks you opened. A link to a note opens it, and follows it when it is renamed.
The names live after the #, the part of an address a browser never sends to any server.
On every device
A phone, a laptop and a tablet, the same files in your own Google Drive or Dropbox, changes between them within seconds, and one clipboard for all of them.
Made for your phone
On a narrow screen the account, the notebook and the note become a path across the top, and choosing one opens the next, so you go from an account to a note in a few taps. Format shows a formatting bar that stays until you turn it off.
Install it to your home screen from the banner, or from the Share menu in Safari on an iPhone, and it opens like any other app, offline too. On Android and ChromeOS the installed app is a share target: share text, a link or a file to it from any other app and it lands on your clipboard.
A clipboard your devices share
Show clipboard, in a connected account’s storage menu, puts a clipboard above the status line on every device of that account. Paste into it, drop files on it, or share to it from your phone, and it is on your other devices in seconds. Press an item there to copy its text or picture back to the system clipboard, or to save a file.
It keeps the last ten items, as files in a hidden folder in your own storage, so what you copy is as private as your notes. Text, pictures and files up to 25 MB, between any devices with a browser: an Android phone and a Windows laptop, an iPhone and a Mac.
Sync through your own Google Drive or Dropbox
Connect Google Drive or Dropbox and the app makes one folder there. Every device you connect syncs with the same folder, two ways, and so does anything else that reads files: change a note in another editor and the change comes back here.
When two devices change the same note while apart, both versions are kept, the second as a copy named with the time, and nothing is lost. One subscription covers as many storage accounts as you like, each shown as its own tab with the provider’s logo.
Every device on the account, by name
Beside the status line of a connected account is a count of the other devices signed in on it, and pressing it lists them by what they are, as their browser said when they connected: Safari on an iPhone, Chrome on a laptop. One more than you own is what a stolen code would look like, which is why the count is always in view.
Remove a device and it is signed out for good: it stops syncing there and then, and can only come back by connecting again. There is no account page for any of this, because there is no account; the list belongs to the storage account it is about.
Changes arrive in seconds
A device that has just synced says so, and the account’s other devices fetch the change within a second or two, or a few on Google Drive, which takes a moment to report one. Nothing but “something changed” passes through; the notes themselves still go straight to your storage. Without it, an open device checks once a minute.
Offline first
Notes are kept on the device and saved as you type. Offline, everything works. Online, the device syncs in the background: on opening the app, on coming back to it, and every minute while it is in front of you. A long first sync shows how far it has got, and picks up where it left off if the app is closed.
Keeping
Bring in what you have, take out everything at any time, and run the whole thing yourself if you would rather.
Bring in what you already have
Import a folder, or Import files, in the storage menu, takes a folder of Markdown files or a zip of them. Subfolders become notebooks, pictures and files beside the notes come with them, and each note’s dates are read from its front matter. Nothing already there is changed or replaced; a name that is taken gets a number.
The guides show how to get a folder like that out of Evernote, Notion, Apple Notes, OneNote and others.
Take everything out, any time
Download all notes, in the storage menu and the command palette, saves a zip of every note with the files beside them, from any device, on the free tier too. With storage connected you hardly need it: the folder in your Drive or Dropbox is already the export. Disconnect an account and its notes stay in the storage; stop paying and they stay where they are.
Light and dark, as your system is
The app follows your device’s light or dark setting and changes with it, as this site does. The picture below follows it too; flip the switch to see the other one.
Open source, and yours to run
The app and its server are open source under the AGPL-3.0, so you can read what the code does with your notes rather than take our word for it. The self-hosting guide walks through running every part of it on your own Cloudflare account, for nothing.
