VNote is a Qt-based note-taking application, focusing on Markdown. VNote is designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience.
VNote is not just a simple editor for Markdown. By providing notes management, VNote makes taking notes in Markdown simpler. In the future, VNote will support more formats besides Markdown.
This is cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS, and Windows. Free and open source.
Features include:
- Simple notes management:
- All plain text, no database.
- Self-contained notebooks, infinite levels of folders, plain notes.
- Tags and attachments.
- Explore and edit external files.
- Own your data:
- All files on your local disk.
- One notebook is exactly one directory.
- Work from anywhere seamlessly via third-party service of your choice.
- In-place preview or side-by-side live preview.
- Focus on your note in both read and edit mode.
- Markdown:
- Minimized gap between read and write of Markdown.
- Syntax highlights and in-place preview.
- Effective images management.
- Interactive outline.
- UML diagrams, flowcharts, and math formulas.
- Highly customizable:
- Themes and styles
- Shortcuts and behaviors
- For programmers:
- Vi mode and Vi-like navigation
- Line number in editor
- Multiple tabs
- Window splits
- Fuzzy search and jump
- Versatile shortcuts
Website: github.com/vnotex/vnote
Support:
Developer: Le Tan
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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