Introduction

Noteside is a fast, minimalist desktop notes app. Point and click, or drive everything from the keyboard, with full vim if you want it and conventional shortcuts if you don't. Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you choose, so you can grep it, back it up, sync it, or walk away with it. Nothing leaves your machine.

You write in a block editor (Tiptap / ProseMirror) inside a native Tauri window. Headings, tables, code blocks, and callouts are real blocks you edit in place, and what lands on disk is still plain Markdown. A Rust core treats those files as the source of truth.

What you get

• Mouse and keyboard, both first-class. Everything clicks: the sidebar, the palettes, pins, renames, the right-click menu. Everything also has a keystroke: real vim modes and motions, or the conventional ⌘-shortcuts you already know.
• Files as truth. Plain Markdown in a folder you pick. Keep several notebooks and switch between them. Notes autosave, get written atomically, and reload live when something edits them from outside.
• Offline and local-first. No account, no telemetry, no network.
• A real block editor. Tables, code blocks, callouts, math, images, and task lists are blocks you edit in place. No source pane, no preview pane. The file stays Markdown, and the round-trip back to disk is exact.
• Folders that are folders. Group notes into real subdirectories, move them by drag-and-drop or from the keyboard, and fold the sidebar down when it gets long.
• Search that reads from memory, and a warm, literary writing area with 53 bundled themes (Catppuccin, Gruvbox, Nord, Rosé Pine, and more) plus a live ~/.notesiderc.

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