AI writes more than you can read. note.md is where you get through it: highlight, question, fix it on the spot. It all lands in the vault your agents share — plain markdown. Agents can notice what matters; only you approve what becomes memory.
11 MB·any Typora theme·Mermaid & Graphviz, tuned·outliner, [[wikilinks]], daily notes·one vault every agent shares
macOS 13+ · free & open · your files stay on your own Mac · Intel Mac? · Windows?Windows 10/11 · free & open · your files stay on your own PC · Mac?
Preview and source, one key apart. Notion and Typora themes work as they are. Mermaid, Graphviz and math, all tuned. The whole app installs at ~15 MB, with no browser engine inside.
A shaky line? Highlight it. A doubt? In the margin. Wrong? Fix it on the spot.
Claude, Codex and OpenClaw all have a chat window. None of them is made for reading.
local-first · git sync · outliner · [[wikilinks]] · backlinks · wiki pages · daily notes · plugins
Roam and Obsidian worked this out years ago. note.md puts it back into files. One plugin brings your whole Roam graph over. An Obsidian vault just opens.
Built-in agent workflows use the agents, AI subscriptions, API accounts, or local runtimes you already have. note.md sells no tokens, adds no token markup, and charges no separate per-token fee.
Model usage still follows your chosen provider's plan, limits, and billing — or your own local compute.
Your folder is the workspace every AI tool shares. Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, Hermes — same files, same house rules, all in git. See how.
Every file it writes follows Open Knowledge Format v0.2, strictly: what a document is, where it came from, who checked it — plain YAML at the top of the file. Any tool can read your vault. Not just this one.
Built-in agents, without a second token meter. Change AI tools whenever you want. What's yours stays yours.
Write a plugin. Add a scheduled job. Hang your skills off it.
Put a ? in a note and an agent takes it from there: edits the document, fills in the context, hands it back — async. Whether you keep it is up to you.
Your preferences, boundaries and decisions should not be guessed. An agent finds candidates in the work and conversations you choose to bring in; note.md gives them back to you one at a time. Only what you confirm becomes lasting context.
Search finds what you wrote. Memory governs what an agent may believe about you — and what it may act on. note.md keeps those jobs separate on purpose.
Every document gets a note file of its own. What the AI wrote stays on one side. What you think stays on the other.
Ten thousand words? Anyone can generate those. Your take, nobody can. And it's sitting on your own disk.
Free. Open. A folder on your own computer. That's it.
macOS 13 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · also on Windows · from GitHub ReleasesWindows 10/11, 64-bit · also on macOS 13+ · from GitHub Releases
Written and maintained entirely by AI coding. Reviewed and tested by a human before every release.