What n0te is

n0te is a fast reader and quick editor for Obsidian notes and code, made for Omarchy. Press super n, type a few letters of a note’s name, and it’s open, set in your theme, in under 30 ms.

It’s for the times you’d rather not start Obsidian: checking a list, reading a note from the terminal, ticking off a task, fixing a line. Notes open as clean, readable pages. Press e on any paragraph, list item or heading and it turns back into markdown you can edit. esc turns it back into a page. There’s no save button, because n0te saves as you go and never leaves diff noise in your files.

What it does

• Reads your vault as Obsidian does. It understands wikilinks, callouts, tasks, tags, tables, footnotes and frontmatter, and finds your vault through Obsidian’s own config.
• Edits a block at a time. Only the block you’re editing shows its markdown; everything else stays a page. Blocks you don’t touch go back to disk byte for byte.
• Keeps up with other apps. If Obsidian, Syncthing or git pull changes a note while it’s open, n0te merges the change into what you’re doing instead of overwriting it.
• Opens code too. Any file opens with syntax highlighting in your theme’s colors, at a line if you ask (n0 src/main.rs:42).
• Fits into Omarchy. One command binds super n, starts n0te at login and themes it. A theme switch repaints every open window.
• Is keyboard-first. j and k step through blocks, ctrl k opens a palette of notes, headings and commands, and ctrl o goes back. The mouse works too.

What it isn’t

n0te is not a replacement for Obsidian. It has no graph, backlinks, plugins or full-text search across the vault, and it doesn’t try to. It reads and writes the same files, so you can use both.

Where to start

• New here? Install, then First steps.
• Looking for a key? Keys lists all of them on one page.
• Wondering if n0te will clobber your notes? Saving and changes on disk explains exactly what it writes and when.

Note

n0te is at version 0.1. It’s used every day, and it’s careful with your files, but expect rough edges. It installs from a download for now; the source, an AUR package and a public issue tracker come when the repository goes public.