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FSNotes

A modern notes manager on steroids for macOS and iOS. Created by Oleksandr Glushchenko

Free Open Source
Mac
iPhone
iPad

File system notes is modern notes manager on steroids for macOS and iOS.

Application respects open formats: plain/text, markdown, rtf, and stores data in file system. You can view, edit, copy data in favourite external editor and see live results in FSNotes.

macOS app features:
- keyboard centric
- global shortcuts (clipboard save / search)
- markdown and RTF markup (files stored on disk as plain/text 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 / works with external editors (changes seamless live sync with UI)
- pin/unpin important notes in top
- synchronization over iCloud Drive / Dropbox
- 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 editor
- images drag and drop
- tags... More Info »

iOS app 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

Links to official FSNotes sites

Official Website Twitter GitHub

Features

Sync with Dropbox Sync with iCloud Local Storage Markdown MarkDown support Note organization Notetaking Syntax Highlighting Tagging Wiki-like local linking Add a feature

Category

Office & Productivity

Tags

notebook notepad notes-manager personal-information-manager

FSNotes was added by fluder in Nov 2017 and the latest update was made in Aug 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Oct 2020. It's possible to update the information on FSNotes or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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