Notes manager for macOS/iOS

File System notes (FSNotes): is modern notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids.

macOS app

Our application respect open formats: Plaintext, Markdown, RTF, and stores data in the file system. You can view, edit, copy data in a favorite external editor and see the live result in FSNotes.

Key features

• Keyboard centric.
• Global shortcuts (clipboard save/search).
• Markdown and RTF markup (files stored on disk as Plaintext and Rich Text).
• Markdown preview mode.
• Elastic two-pane view (vertical and horizontal layout).
• Blazing fast and lightweight (working fine with 10k+ files)
• Open files in finder work with external editors (changes seamless live sync with UI).
• Pin/Unpin important notes on the top.
• Synchronization over iCloud Drive.
• Multi-folder storage.
• Fast copy Markdown code to clipboard.
• Live Markdown highlighting with code blocks (over 170 languages).
• Themes for code highlighting.
• Markdown images preview in the editor.
• Images drag and drop or copy & paste.
• Tags.
• Dark mode (macOS Mojave and higher).
• Encryption AES-256.
• Mermaid and MathJax support.
• Git versioning and scheduled backups.

FSNotes is written on Swift 5, open-source (MIT license)

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iOS app

Key features

• iCloud Drive support (Files.app folder available).
• Fast note creation (3DTouch + configurable default keyboard).
• Pin/Unpin with macOS companion sync.
• RTF and Markdown markup.
• Markdown editor with highlighting (code blocks too).
• Search with keywords highlighting.
• Sharing extension.