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Write down what no document says.

What the caretaker said on the phone, the measurements from the kitchen, who the current tenant is: that belongs in a note, next to the documents it points to. Every note is a Markdown file in your archive — open, simple, readable in any editor.

What a note can do

  • Write like in a word processor

    In the Text view you write with a formatting bar, the way you know it from Word; the file still contains Markdown, character for character. If you want to see the characters, switch to Markdown or Source.

  • Tables that stay tables

    Tables are usually a chore in Markdown. Here a table stays a grid while you type: Tab moves to the next cell and adds a row in the last one, a right click sorts by a column. A table from a spreadsheet becomes Markdown when you paste it.

  • Photos and audio from your phone

    On your phone you take a photo or scan straight into the note, at the cursor. A recording sits in the text, and Transcribe puts the transcript below it — worked out on the device.

  • Links to everything

    Ctrl+K links to a note, a document or an email; a link to an email still finds it after it has moved to another folder. The Side panel shows what links to the note.

    Ctrl+K
  • Tasks in the text

    Ctrl+Shift+T turns a checkbox into a task, with date, reminder and everything that goes with it. In a project or area note every checkbox is a task card, with its details on the right.

    Ctrl+Shift+T Tasks
  • Letters

    Address, information block to DIN 5008, columns, signatures, header and footer: the Letter button sets them, and preview and print lay out the letter.

  • Saving without thinking about it

    A note is saved when you leave it, and every save is a version in the history. It only saves while the version you started from is still on disk — so Undan never overwrites a change Syncthing has just brought from another device.

  • Find and arrange

    The list searches titles before full text, Ctrl+F searches the note and, pressed again, all notes. The Note structure shows the outline; drag sections to a new place by their handle. Two notes can be merged, and links to the old one still find their way.

    Ctrl+F Ctrl+R Alt+7
  • Spelling

    Unknown words get a red wavy line, German, English and Swedish at once, and the spell check already knows your contacts' names. Your own dictionary lives in the archive and travels with it.

  • With AI, if you want it

    Select what you jotted down and say what should happen — “turn this into a list” — and the AI shows Before and New before anything is accepted. It's off by default.

What it looks like

From the help's test archive; new pictures with Jonas Falk will follow.

A note about a house in the Text view: at the top the properties with name, tags, alias and ID, below a sentence with links to the property manager and the purchase contract as chips, statements such as location and rent, each with its evidence — the old rent struck through, the new one with the rent increase as evidence —, at the bottom three tasks, one done.
What you need to know about a house, in one place, with evidence.
A note “Kosten” with a table of item and amount — Miete, Strom, Wasser, Internet —, the rows shaded alternately.
A table in a note.

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