Linux app, Linux
LiteNotes
Native Markdown notes for Linux, stored as plain files.
LiteNotes is a lightweight note-taking application for Linux. Its sidebar mirrors folders of Markdown files on disk, organised into vaults, with fast search, live editing and automatic saving. Notes remain ordinary files the user fully owns.
Markdown notes that are just files.
Plain Markdown, usable with any other tool.
Across one vault or all of them.
GTK4 and libadwaita, no Electron.
What LiteNotes does.
A tiny native note-taking app for Linux. The sidebar mirrors a folder of Markdown files on disk, organised into vaults and folders, with fast search, live editing and autosave. Your notes stay plain files you own.
Plain Markdown files
Vaults and folders on disk; use any other tool alongside it.
Search everything
Names and text across one vault or all of them, with matches highlighted.
Edit in place
Read mode and edit mode, saved automatically a second after you stop typing.
Keyboard first
Shortcuts for new notes, folders, search, bold, italic and links.
Privacy. Runs entirely offline. No telemetry.
At a glance.
Designed for
Linux users who want Obsidian-style notes without Electron.
Pricing
Free.
Available on
Linux
Built on the layer
- Native GTK4A single Python file on GTK4 and libadwaita that follows the system theme.
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