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)
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.