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Zen Notes

ZenNotes is a keyboard-first Markdown notes app with a shared product core and multiple runtimes:

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  Local-First

Features

  1.  Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support

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  • Developed by

    ZenNotes

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  656 Stars
  •  28 Forks
  •  37 Open Issues
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What is Zen Notes?

ZenNotes is a keyboard-first Markdown notes app with a shared product core and multiple runtimes:

  • a desktop app built with Electron
  • a self-hosted web app backed by a Go server
  • a future hosted deployment mode built on the same web/server stack

ZenNotes keeps your notes as ordinary Markdown files on disk. It adds Vim-friendly editing, split and preview workflows, tasks, tags, archive/trash, diagrams, search, daily notes, CSV databases (Notion-style Table + Board views over plain .csv files), and MCP integration on top of the files you already own. On macOS, the first-party zen CLI also powers launcher workflows such as the Raycast extension.

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