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FSNotes

Supports open formats like plain text, Markdown, RTF, stores notes on disk, offers live sync with external editors, iCloud Drive and Dropbox sync, elastic pane views, fast search, tagging, markdown preview, code highlighting, and robust multi-folder management.

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Cost / License

  • Free Personal
  • Open Source (MIT)

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • iPhone
  • iPad
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

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

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FSNotes information

  • Developed by

    UA flagOleksandr Glushchenko

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free Personal product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $9.

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  • Supported Languages

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

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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.

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What is FSNotes?

FSNotes is a notes management application for macOS and iOS that supports open formats like plain/text, markdown, and RTF. Users can view, edit, and copy data with their preferred external editor. The macOS version emphasizes keyboard functionality and features global shortcuts, markdown and RTF markup, markdown preview mode, and two-pane view. It can handle over 10,000 files and syncs changes with the user interface. Other features include note pinning, iCloud Drive or Dropbox sync, multi-folder storage, markdown code copying, markdown highlighting with code blocks, theme options, image previews, drag and drop functionality, and tagging. The iOS version supports iCloud Drive, fast note creation, note pinning, RTF and Markdown markup, markdown editor with code block highlighting, search functionality with keyword highlighting, and a sharing extension.