File system notes is modern notes manager on steroids for macOS and iOS.

Application respects open formats: plain/text, markdown, rtf, and stores data in file system. You can view, edit, copy data in favourite external editor and see live results in FSNotes.

Pricing

FSNotes is an open source project, and is provided for free, but you can support development by buying application in Mac App Store for symbolic price or becoming a patron.

No subscriptions ever.

Install using Homebrew:

brew cask install fsnotes

And many more:

• Keyboard centric.
• Global shortcuts (clipboard save/search).
• Markdown and RTF markup (files stored on disk as Plaintext and Rich Text).
• Markdown preview mode.
• Elastic two-pane view (vertical and horizontal layout).
• Blazing fast and lightweight (working fine with 10k+ files)
• Open files in finder work with external editors (changes seamless live sync with UI).
• Pin/Unpin important notes on the top.
• Synchronization over iCloud Drive.
• Multi-folder storage.
• Live Markdown highlighting with code blocks (over 170 languages).
• Themes for code highlighting.
• Markdown images preview in the editor.
• Images drag and drop or copy & paste.
• Tags.
• Dark mode (macOS Mojave and higher).
• Encryption AES-256.
• Mermaid and MathJax support.
• Git versioning and scheduled backups.

Awesome iOS app

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• iCloud Drive support (Files.app folder available)
• Fast note creation (3DTouch + configurable default keyboard)
• Pin/unpin with macOS companion sync
• RTF and Markdown markup
• Markdown editor with highlighting (code blocks too)
• Search with keywords highlighting
• Sharing extension