Local Notes

Local Notes - Markdown notes, stored on your own computer Local Notes turns Chrome into a private, local-first notebook. You write in Markdown, link notes together with [[wiki links]], see every connection in a graph, and clip text from the web straight into your notes. Everything is saved as ordinary .md files in a folder you choose. There is no account, no sync service, no cloud and no tracking. Your notes never leave your computer. If you like linked, local-first note-taking but want something that lives right inside your browser, this is for you. Because the files are plain Markdown, you are never locked in: you can open the same folder with any other Markdown editor at any time. WHY LOCAL NOTES - Your notes, your folder. Pick any folder on your disk and Local Notes reads and writes .md files there. Back it up, sync it with the tool you already trust, or put it under version control. - Private by design. The extension makes no network requests of its own and has no server. Nothing is uploaded, ever. - No lock-in. Plain Markdown files open in any text editor, including VS Code, Typora and many other Markdown apps. - Fast and lightweight. It opens in a browser tab or in Chrome's side panel, and it handles large folders thanks to caching and parallel loading. - Works the way you think. Link ideas, follow backlinks, explore the graph, search everything. GETTING STARTED 1. Click the Local Notes toolbar icon. The app opens in a new tab. 2. Choose "Open notes folder" and pick a folder. Use an empty one to start fresh, or point it at an existing folder of Markdown notes. 3. Click "+ Note" and start writing. After a browser restart, Chrome asks you to confirm access to the folder once more. Click "Reconnect" and you are back exactly where you left off, with your last note and open tabs restored. WRITING AND EDITING Markdown editor with three views. Switch between Edit, Split (editor and live preview side by side) and Preview. Ctrl+E cycles through them. Notes autosave about half a second after you stop typing, and you can press Ctrl+S to save immediately. Formatting bar and shortcuts. One-click buttons for bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, heading levels, bullet lists, numbered lists, checkbox lists, quotes, code blocks and wiki links. Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I and Ctrl+K work as shortcuts. All formatting actions keep your undo history, so Ctrl+Z always behaves. Smart lists. Press Enter inside a bullet, numbered, checkbox or quoted line and the next item starts automatically. Press Enter on an empty item to end the list. Clickable checkboxes. Task lists in the preview are interactive. Tick or untick a box and the change is written back into the note file. Rich Markdown preview. Headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, ==highlights==, inline code, fenced code blocks, block quotes, horizontal rules, nested lists, task lists, tables and images. YAML frontmatter is read but kept out of the way. Syntax highlighting. Fenced code blocks that name a language are colored. Supported families include JavaScript and TypeScript, JSON, Python, shell and PowerShell, YAML, SQL, CSS, HTML and XML, and C-style languages such as Java, C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Swift and Kotlin. Colors follow your light or dark theme. Images. Paste a screenshot or drag an image file into a note. It is saved into an attachments folder inside your notes folder and shown in the preview. Images are linked in the familiar ![[image.png]] form, and standard Markdown images work too. Outline and statistics. A live outline of your headings sits in the side column. Click any heading to jump to it in both the editor and the preview. The top bar shows a running word count and estimated reading time. Templates. Keep reusable note layouts in a Templates folder. Create a new note from a template, or insert one into the note you are writing. Templates can use {{title}}, {{date}} and {{time}}, and you can pick your own date format, for example {{date:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm}}. If you have no templates yet, one click creates sample Daily, Meeting and Project templates. Daily notes. Press the calendar button or Alt+T to open today's note, created automatically in a Daily folder. If you have a template named Daily it is used to fill the new note. LINKING YOUR NOTES This is the heart of the app. Wiki links. Type [[Note Name]] to link to another note. Links also support folder paths, [[Folder/Note]], display text, [[Note Name|shown text]], and headings, [[Note Name#Heading]], which opens the note and scrolls straight to that section. Autocomplete. As soon as you type [[, a suggestion list of your notes appears. Use the arrow keys and Enter or Tab to choose one. Create from a link. Links to notes that do not exist yet are shown with a dashed underline. Click one and the note is created for you, in the right folder, and opened. Embeds. Write ![[Note Name]] on its own line to show another note's content inline. Write ![[Note Name#Heading]] to embed just one section. Embeds are depth-limited and cycle-safe, so notes can embed each other without breaking anything. Backlinks. The side panel lists every note that links to the one you are reading, together with the line that contains the link, so you see context, not just titles. Unlinked mentions. The app also finds notes that mention the current note's title in plain text without linking to it. Press "Link" and the mention is turned into a proper [[link]] in that note. It is the easiest way to weave an existing pile of notes into a connected network. Outgoing links. See every link in the open note at a glance, with missing targets clearly marked. Safe renaming and moving. Rename a note by editing its title at the top. Every [[link]] in your other notes that pointed to it is updated automatically. Moving a note to another folder updates links that use its full path. Graph view. Open an interactive map of your whole knowledge base with the graph button or Alt+G. Notes are nodes, links a…