Tangent is designed to let you write the way you think. Your thoughts are connected; Tangent lets you link to existing notes and make new ones with ease.
Tangent visualizes the path of your thoughts with elegant sliding panels and a branching map that builds itself as you write. You always know where you are and where you’ve been.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Threads of Thought – path behind you is retained and represented with horizontally sliding panels in the Thread View. These panels let you easily slide up and down the path of your thought process.
- Map View – nodes and connections are automatically created as you write and navigate.
Fully styles your markdown as you type. Markup notation melts away as you leave it behind. There’s support for headers, bold, italics, highlights, web links, embedded images, lists, YAML front matter, LaTeX maths, and code blocks with syntax highlighting. - Uses wiki-style [[Double Bracket Links]] to connect notes together by filename. Autocomplete makes this easy.
- Minimalist focus mode.
- Tags – mark up your notes with additional context. Includes support for nested tags for the organizational extremists.
- Custom query language – easily find notes from across your workspace based on links, tags, todos, or just any bit of text, using a custom query language.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Customizable environment.
Website: www.tangentnotes.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Taylor Hadden
License: Apache License 2.0
Tangent is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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