Write the idea down before it's gone

Press Ctrl+Alt+N anywhere, type, press Enter. Flashjot saves the thought to your Inbox and gets out of the way. A notebook keeps everything else, as plain Markdown files.

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What Flashjot does

Ideas show up at bad times: in the middle of a build, a meeting or a sentence. Opening a full note app breaks your flow, and by the time it has loaded the idea is gone. Flashjot keeps a capture box one shortcut away, and a notebook for when you have time to sort things out.

A box one shortcut away

Ctrl+Alt+N opens a small box on the monitor your mouse is on, with the cursor already in it. Enter saves. See Quick capture.

Drafts never get lost

Press Esc or click somewhere else, and whatever you typed is still there next time. Saved notes are written so that a power cut can’t leave a half-written file.

An Inbox to sort later

Quick notes land in the Inbox as cards. Press M to file one into a folder and it gets a title from its first line.

A notebook with folders

Pages in folders, a Markdown editor with live styling and clickable checkboxes, and search across everything with Ctrl+K. See Notebook.

Plain Markdown files

Every note is a .md file in Documents/Flashjot. Open them in Obsidian, VS Code or any editor, and keep them in git or a synced folder. See Your notes.

Keyboard first

Every action has a shortcut, and you can record your own global shortcuts in Settings. See Shortcuts.

Linux, Windows and macOS

Built with Tauri: it uses the system’s web view instead of shipping a browser, so the installer is about 3 MB. Starts in the tray, ready when you are.

English and Turkish, light and dark

The interface follows your system language and light or dark setting. You can change both in Settings.

The quick box over the desktop: a white card with a red rule under the Flashjot title and the text “Try a belt drive for the shoulder joint”

The notebook's Inbox: three quick notes as cards with red top rules, folders Ideas and Work in the sidebar

Get it

Download the installer for your system from the latest release. It is free and has no account, no telemetry and no network access: your notes never leave your computer.

Linux.deb for Ubuntu, Debian, Pardus and Mint, .rpm for Fedora, and an AppImage for everything else.

WindowsInstaller for Windows 10 and 11.

macOSDisk images for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Built in the open

Flashjot is free software under the MIT License. The code, the issues and the plans are on GitHub. Contributions are welcome, from typo fixes and translations to new features.

ContributingSet up the project, run the checks and open a pull request.

RoadmapWhat comes next, such as SQLite storage and Wayland shortcuts.