Overview

aNote is designed to make note-taking feel lighter and less stressful. Its goal is to help you focus on capturing, revisiting, organizing, and sharing your ideas—instead of spending energy on complicated features and endless filing.

At its core, aNote uses Markdown plain text editing. The syntax is simple, the files stay clean, and your notes remain easy to keep, move, and preserve over time without being tied to a specific platform.

Compared with typical note-taking apps, aNote deliberately takes a different path: instead of piling on more features, it focuses on making the essential writing workflow smoother and more reliable.

• Single-level folders + nested tags

  Use a single layer of folders to define broad areas, then organize details with tags. Tags can be nested, such as Work/Project or Reading/Design/Ideas. This keeps your notes structured without pushing you into endlessly managing deep folder hierarchies instead of actually writing.

• Plain text editing with line numbers

  The editor is always Markdown text, with line numbers preserved. Combined with soft wrapping, hard line breaks, and a line-based way of thinking, it works especially well for quick notes, fleeting ideas, and later rearranging or combining content. You do not need to decide on the perfect structure in advance—you can simply write one line at a time, then organize it later.

• Refined for writing on mobile

  Editing text on a phone is often where note-taking becomes frustrating. aNote is designed to make that easier, with smoother cursor movement, more natural text selection, and better support for the system floating cursor, so even small edits, insertions, and revisions feel comfortable.

• More professional preview, export, and sharing

  Preview uses Web rendering—not only to show what your note looks like, but also to generate full-page screenshots or long-image exports with deeply customizable styles.

  PDF export is powered by Typst and supports heading bookmarks, layout control, and reusable templates, making it better suited for printing, archiving, or polished sharing.

  When you want to publish something publicly, you can also share it through Youlog.net.

• Room for advanced users to extend it

  The editor toolbar includes a JavaScript extension entry point, allowing you to turn repetitive tasks into reusable tools of your own. For example, you can batch-process text, automatically reformat content, or build small workflows together with AI.

It is not a note-taking app that tries to do everything. Instead, aNote aims to make the path from “write → organize → export → share” stable, smooth, and pleasant.

Features such as search and replace, recently opened notes, restoring your last position, auto-save, and a recycle bin all exist to support that same workflow with fewer interruptions.

What You Can Do with It

• Organize large numbers of notes with “single-level folders + nested tags”
• Write Markdown as naturally as plain text; line numbers help you locate, adjust, and rearrange content more easily, while preview lets you instantly see the final result
• Move the cursor and adjust selections more efficiently on mobile, and speed up writing with toolbar commands
• Quickly locate and batch-edit content through search and find-and-replace, including regular expression support
• Export PDFs powered by Typst, generate preview screenshots, or share content online through Youlog
• Use JavaScript extension scripts to turn common actions into your own workflow
• Switch quickly between recently opened notes, while restoring your last reading, scrolling, and editing position whenever possible
• Reduce the anxiety of accidental deletion or lost work with auto-save and the recycle bin

Roadmap

• Batch export Markdown
• Tablet version
• Desktop version
• Version history
• Multi-device sync
• Custom preview / screenshot styles
• Custom PDF styles
• Custom extension commands
• Internal links
• Youlog Site builder