tinynote

Raycast Notes in your terminal. A tiny markdown notes TUI over plain files.

Your notes are a flat folder of .md files in ~/notes — nothing else. No folders, no tags, no sync, no accounts, no plugins, no vim. Open a terminal pane, jot something down, close it.

cargo install --path .
tinynote

How it works

• One note on screen at a time. ^K opens the palette — fuzzy search across every note's title and body, plus the commands (new, delete, preview, quit). Type, arrow, enter.
• ^N creates a note; the file is named after its first line and renamed as the title changes (# Groceries → groceries.md).
• ^P flips to rendered markdown (headings, bold/italic, lists, checkboxes, quotes, code). Any of esc/enter/e flips back.
• Deleting asks first, inline. Enter confirms, esc cancels.
• Autosaves half a second after you stop typing, and on switch/quit.
• Mouse works where you'd expect: scroll the note or preview, click a palette row to open it, click outside to dismiss.

Because the notes are just files, everything else in your toolbox works on them too — grep, cat, git, Obsidian pointed at the same folder.

Set TINYNOTE_DIR to use a different notes directory.

Keys

Development

cargo run      # against ~/notes (set TINYNOTE_DIR to test elsewhere)
cargo test
cargo clippy

Rust, ratatui + crossterm, tui-textarea for editing, pulldown-cmark for the preview renderer (src/render.rs — the piece that will grow into live preview).

License

MIT