Made for Omarchy
n0te opens your vault as clean, readable pages, and gets out of the way. Press super n, type a few letters, and the note is open in your theme in under 30 ms. Press e to edit a block; esc, and it’s a page again.
One note in six Omarchy themes. n0te has no theme of its own: it wears yours, and repaints when you switch.
n0te is for the moments you’d rather not start Obsidian: checking a list, reading a note from the terminal, ticking off a task, fixing a line.
e turns the paragraph, list item or heading you’re on into its markdown, in a quiet box. Everything else stays a page, so you never lose your place in a wall of syntax.
There’s no save button. n0te writes a second after you stop typing, atomically, and puts every block you didn’t touch back byte for byte.
ctrl k opens one palette for notes, the headings in this note, and every command, each listed with its key. ctrl o goes back, tab shows the outline, / finds.
No sidebar, no file tree. Notes are found by name, links resolve the way Obsidian resolves them, and the mouse works when you want it.
Tables are set in the reading face, measured and wrapped to the window. Code is highlighted with tree-sitter in your theme’s colors, in notes and in any file you open: n0 src/main.rs:42.
Checklists get drawn boxes. x ticks, h hides what’s done, and the page never moves under you.
n0te shares your vault with Obsidian, sync and git. It’s built not to fight any of them.
A resident service keeps GTK warm, and the n0 command starts in under a millisecond. A warm open takes 28 ms from command to first frame.
If a note changes on disk while you edit, n0te merges it into yours, block by block. When it can’t be sure, it pauses autosave and says why.
Line endings, permissions and symlinks are kept, and a tick changes exactly one character. Your git history stays readable.
n0 -t "buy milk" adds a task to today’s daily note without opening a window. Templates and daily notes follow your Obsidian settings.
One command binds super n, starts n0te at login and themes it. A theme switch repaints every open window in place.
No network, no telemetry, no accounts, and no index or cache of your notes. Its runtime files stay in a folder only you can read.
Vim-flavoured where that helps, and every command is in the palette if you forget.
All of them: the keys reference.
n0te runs on Linux with GTK 4.20 or newer, and is made for Omarchy. It takes a minute.
n0te 0.1.0 for x86_64 Linux, built on Arch.
$ curl -fLO https://n0te.dhin.dev/download/n0te-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
$ curl -fLO https://n0te.dhin.dev/download/SHA256SUMS
$ sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
$ tar -xf n0te-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
$ ./n0te/install.sh
$ n0te --setupOr by hand: n0te-x86_64-linux.tar.gz · SHA256SUMS
install.sh puts n0te, n0te-app and the short name n0 in ~/.local/bin, and touches nothing else.n0te --setup binds super n, starts n0te at login, installs its theme template and tab completion, and says what it did. --setup default also opens .md files in n0te; --setup remove undoes it all.Then press super n. More in Install and First steps, including updating and running n0te without Omarchy.