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FSNotes

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A modern notes manager on steroids for macOS and iOS.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • UA flagUkraine

Platforms

  • Mac
  • iPhone
  • iPad
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Local Storage
  2.  Wiki-like local linking
  3.  Support for MarkDown
  4.  Syntax Highlighting
  5.  Full-Text Search
  6.  Tagging
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  No Tracking
  9.  Hierarchical Structure
  10.  Ad-free
  11.  Dark Mode
  12.  No registration required
  13. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
  14.  Note organization
  15.  Sync with iCloud
  16.  Personal Information Manager (PIM)
  17.  Notebook
  18. Dropbox icon  Sync with Dropbox

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FSNotes information

  • Developed by

    UA flagOleksandr Glushchenko

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Hebrew
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Ukrainian

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  •  512 Forks
  •  163 Open Issues
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about FSNotes, and it has gotten 22 likes

FSNotes was added to AlternativeTo by fluder on Nov 7, 2017 and this page was last updated Jan 16, 2023.

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I've migrated to FSNotes from Obsidian, and before Obsidian I was using Notion to organize my notes.

Compared to Notion, it's just a more natural feeling minimalist note-taking, without unnecessary database features and slow UI. I also like to have my knowledge base as local Markdown files.

Obsidian was too complicated for me. Too many features. FSNotes keeps the minimalistic spirit of the Apple Notes app, while adding a lot of useful features on top of that.

What is FSNotes?

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

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

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