Notes are markdown. Not a rich-text editor that exports markdown: the file is markdown, the editor edits markdown, and what you export is what you wrote.
Writing
Three view modes, switched from the toolbar:
- Write is the source, nothing else.
- Split is source and preview side by side. The desktop default.
- Read is preview only. The default on phones, where a split view is two cramped columns.
Your choice is remembered per screen size, so a phone does not inherit a desktop preference.
Supported: headings, bold and italic, lists, task lists, tables, code fences
with highlighting, block quotes, images, footnotes, and maths via KaTeX. Slash
commands (/) insert structures without leaving the keyboard.
Ticking a task checkbox in the preview edits the exact character in the source
that produced it. This sounds obvious and is not: the naive implementation
counts checkboxes in render order, which quietly toggles the wrong line the
moment a note contains a code fence with a - [ ] in it.
F11 or the toolbar gives distraction-free mode: the note, full screen,
with the same toolbar and shortcuts as the normal editor rather than a reduced
copy of it.
Folders and files in one panel
The left panel is a single tree of folders and notes, the way a file browser works. Drag a note into a folder, drag a folder into another folder, or multi-select and move several at once.
Collapse the panel and the note takes the whole width, with a small button to bring it back. There is no leftover empty column.
Right-click anything in the tree for the actions that apply to it. Notes get pin, move, copy, export, share, and delete; folders get rename, new note, new subfolder, and delete.
Linking notes together
Type [[ to link to another note by title, with autocomplete. Follow a link by
clicking it. Every note shows its backlinks, meaning the notes that point at it,
so a note accumulates its own context without you maintaining an index.
This is also what feeds the graph in The Mind. A wikilink is a statement that two things are related, and it is treated as one.
The Inbox
Press Q anywhere to capture. It lands in the Inbox and stays there.
Captures are deliberately not notes yet. They are not indexed into memory, they do not appear in your notes list, and they do not turn themselves into anything. An inbox that files itself is an inbox you stop trusting.
When you come back to file one, you can:
- File it as a note, optionally into a folder.
- Append it to an existing note. Pick the note and the capture is added to the end, continuing the list you were already writing: a bullet stays a bullet, a numbered list gets the next number, a task list gets a new unchecked box.
- Delete it, which is a perfectly good outcome for most captures.
Privacy controls
Hide from memory keeps a note in your notes and out of the assistant's reach. It stays searchable by you and is never embedded or retrieved.
The Vault goes further. Locked Vault content is withheld from the assistant entirely: not filtered out of an answer at the end, but never retrieved, never embedded, and not available to be paraphrased into an answer about something adjacent. See Your data.
Getting notes in and out
Import a folder of markdown files and the folder structure comes with them. Export a single note or everything, as markdown. Wikilinks survive the round trip.
The free tier allows 100 notes. Paid tiers do not cap them.