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Notula

A desktop editor for the Markdown documentation kept in a git repository, with comment threads committed beside the documents.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac  Apple Silicon and Intel. The build is not notarised yet, so the first launch is Control-click then Open.
  • Windows  x64 and Arm64. The installer is not code signed yet, so SmartScreen asks for More info and Run anyway.
A specification open in Notula: the document tree on the left, the document with its properties, and a comment thread anchored to the passage it quotes.
A rollout table and two headings in the editor, with no hashes, asterisks or table pipes anywhere on screen.
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The document tree beside a spec, showing folders of specs, docs, runbooks and notes with no source files among them.
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Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2. Git icon  Git Support
  3.  Support for MarkDown
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Syntax Highlighting
  6.  Full-Text Search
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  WYSIWYG Support
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  Collaborative writing

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    Notula

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is Notula?

Notula is a free desktop editor for the Markdown that already lives in a git repository. Point it at a repository and it shows only the documents - a tree of Markdown rather than a file list - and edits them as WYSIWYG, with no hashes, asterisks or table pipes on screen, not even on the line the cursor is on. What lands on disk is ordinary Markdown that engineers review in a normal pull request.

Select a passage and leave a comment. Threads are stored beside the documents as plain files and committed with them, so they arrive with a clone, work offline, and outlive any account. Two people commenting at once cannot conflict, and the documents stay clean: no invisible anchors, no block IDs, no HTML comments.

Publishing is one sentence about what changed. Branches, staging and rebases stay out of sight, and a conflict arrives as a choice between two versions of a paragraph rather than as conflict markers. Notula fetches in the background and marks every document the rest of the team has moved on, with who changed it and when, and nothing changes under the cursor until it is taken.

Mermaid blocks are drawn as diagrams inside the document. Every version of a document can be read and brought back, and a one-character edit stays a one-character diff because only what changed is written back. Notula also writes a briefing describing the workspace for coding agents, so agents and people work to the same conventions.

Free, with no account and no server. macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel, and Windows on x64 and Arm.

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