HelixNotes — Local-First Markdown Notes
helixnotes.com
A local-first markdown note-taking app. Your notes stay on your machine. No cloud, no lock-in.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43147928

I built a note-taking app because the one I wanted didn’t exist. Clean UI, local .md files, no cloud, no account.

Built with Rust + Tauri 2.0 + SvelteKit. Full-text search powered by Tantivy. Graph view, AI writing tools (bring your own key), Obsidian import, version history.

Available for Linux (AppImage, APT, AUR), Windows, and macOS. Source: https://codeberg.org/ArkHost/HelixNotes

  • ArkHost@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    9 hours ago

    Local-first means your data lives on your device as the source of truth, not on someone else’s server. How you choose to sync it - if at all, is up to you. That’s the point.

    • Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      4 hours ago

      nope… that’s just local.

      in that regard every text editor or any software that just CRUDs files locally would be local-first and the term would be meaningless

      local-first means that it does not need internet-access to work and use the app and synchronization comes later, when there’s time and internet access. please read up on this.

      https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

      these are the guys who coined the term

      edit: i originally wrote “local-first means that it does need internet-access to work and use the app…”, which is bullshit and also doesn’t make sense in the context. i added the “not” so it is clear.