Zen Notes

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

Cost / License

Free
Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

Mac
Windows
Linux

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Local-First

Features

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support

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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.