ZenNotes: Markdown Notes

ZenNotes: Markdown Notes

by Lumary Labs LLC

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  • Released
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  • July 23, 2026
  • July 24, 2026

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ZenNotes is a markdown notes app for people who want to own their notes. A vault is just a folder of plain .md files: readable in any editor, portable forever, and never locked inside an app. YOUR VAULT, YOUR STORAGE • Keep notes on your device, in your own iCloud Drive, or in any folder you pick through the Files app. • Use iCloud Drive and the same vault opens on your Mac with ZenNotes desktop. No account, no sync service, no server. • Everything stays plain markdown on disk. Leave anytime and your notes come with you. WRITE AND READ RICH MARKDOWN • Live preview: KaTeX or Typst math, Mermaid diagrams, TikZ, interactive JSXGraph geometry, function plots, tables, callouts, footnotes, highlights. • Paste a URL and turn it into a bookmark card or a video embed, right in the note. • Wikilinks and #tags connect your notes; nested tags group into a tree; backlinks and connections show what points where. • Excalidraw drawings render on iPhone and are fully editable on iPad. CAPTURE FAST • Quick Notes: one tap and type. • Share Extension: send text from any app straight into your vault. • Daily, weekly, and monthly notes with configurable patterns and templates. ORGANIZE WITHOUT CEREMONY • A vault-wide Tasks view: list, week or month calendar, and a kanban board with custom statuses, parsed from ordinary "- [ ]" checkboxes in your notes. • Whole-note task files: tag a note #task and it carries status, due date, and priority in frontmatter. • Table databases stored as CSV: add rows and fields on the phone, filter by multiple fields with and/or logic. • Tags view, Archive, and a recoverable Trash. MADE FOR THE PHONE • A minimal home screen, a floating button that fans out New / Search / Browse / More, full-screen search and commands, and a slide-in vault drawer. • An editing toolbar docked to the keyboard: headings, bold, checkboxes, lists, links, wikilinks, tags, indent. MADE FOR THE IPAD • The full desktop layout: sidebar, tabs, split panes, a reference pane, outline and calendar panels, drawing editing, and the built-in manual. • Vim mode with a hardware keyboard, for those who want it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account. No analytics. No tracking. The privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because nothing ever leaves your device except through your own iCloud Drive. ZenNotes for iPhone and iPad is the mobile companion to ZenNotes desktop (free and open on GitHub). Same files, same renderer, same philosophy: keyboard-first on the desk, local-first everywhere.
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What's New in ZenNotes

1.1

July 24, 2026

New in ZenNotes 1.1 Links become blocks, notes become tasks, and the renderer keeps pace with ZenNotes desktop. • Paste a link, get a block — paste a URL onto an empty line and choose Embed or Bookmark. Bookmarks become rich cards with the page's title, description, and preview image, fetched on device. Vimeo plays inline; YouTube shows a poster card that opens the video. • Task files — a note can now be a task: tag it #task and its frontmatter carries status, due date, and priority. Create one from the new "+ New task" button in the Tasks view. Inline checkboxes in that note become its subtasks. • More expressive tasks — a cancelled status (- [-]), color-coded task metadata in the editor, and tasks filed under a note's "## Tasks" heading when it has one. • Nested tags — tags like #project/compiler group into a collapsible tree in the sidebar and the Tags view. Turn it off in Settings if you prefer the flat list. • Typst math — pick Typst as an alternative to KaTeX in Settings → Editor. Formulas compile and render entirely on device. • Smarter editing — previously used tags are suggested as you type #, and brackets and quotes can auto-close (configurable in Settings → Editor). • Database filters — filter table rows by multiple fields with all/any (AND and OR) logic. • Assets — sort the asset list by name, usage, type, size, or date, and tap "used in" to jump straight to the notes that reference a file. • Fixes and polish across the editor, outline, templates, and calendar — including a crash fix for the database Filter button. Same rules as always: plain markdown files in a folder you own, no account, no server, nothing tracked.

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