Full keyboard navigation. Dual-pane layout. Mobile optimized. Works with 100,000+ notes. Free forever.
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The speed of Apple Notes. The beauty of Bear. The productivity of Evernote. The extensibility of Obsidian.
Arrow keys, Tab between panes, Page Up/Down, Home/End. Shift+↑/↓ to extend selection.
Navigation left, files right. Resizable divider. Auto-reveal active file. Breadcrumb navigation.
Pin notes to top. Folder notes with clickable links. Custom Lucide icons, emojis, and colors.
Parent/child tag trees. Drag to tag or Untagged. Favorite tags section. Hide tags by hierarchy.
1-5 lines preview. Feature images from frontmatter. Date grouping. Clickable tags. Custom per folder.
100,000+ notes. React + TanStack Virtual. IndexedDB + RAM cache. Batch processing engine.
Touch-friendly buttons. Single-pane mode. Scrollable breadcrumbs. Android, iOS, iPadOS.
Instant filtering in current folder. Navigate to folder/tag commands.
Cmd/Ctrl+Click toggle. Shift+Click ranges. Cmd/Ctrl+A select all. Batch operations for everything.
Custom note names, dates, preview text. Hide notes with properties. Folder note auto-properties.
TypeScript API. Metadata control. Navigation & selection. Event subscriptions.
80+ CSS variables. Support for Style Settings plugin. Complete theming documentation.
Navigation tree on the left, file list on the right. Drag to resize. Keyboard Tab to switch panes.
Hierarchical tags like #project/work/urgent. Drag & drop to add/remove tags instantly.
Configurable 1-5 lines of preview text. Automatic thumbnail generation with Featured Image plugin.
Passion for coding
With a PhD in Software Development and decades of experience building products for companies like Apple, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, LEGO and Volvo Cars, a year ago I decided to see if I could push the boundaries of what users should expect from a modern note-taking application. After six months of planning and six more months of intense development, Notebook Navigator is finally ready for global release.
Most current note-taking apps like Apple Notes, Bear and Evernote seem to be stuck in old legacy frameworks and complex architectures, making it almost impossible for them to innovate with new features. It was time to create a brand new state-of-the-art note-taking experience that was built from the ground up for scalability, performance, and user experience. Something that could be built upon for years, if not decades.
When you use Notebook Navigator I hope you will experience something that has become very rare in the tech industry today: software that is so well-designed throughout that it feels like a natural extension of your brain. This is exactly how Notebook Navigator feels to me, and this is why I built it.
If you have feature suggestions, please post them in our wiki. And if you just want to say hi, you're very welcome to join our Discord server!
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