Znote — A beautiful Markdown editor with AI & code built in.

01 · ask

Ask your own notes.

Type @ to pick what the AI should read, / to pick a prompt. The answer lands inline, in the note you're writing.

a

Summarize a meeting note

@meeting-monday → the decisions and the action items.

b

Turn a rough idea into a user story

@user-story-template → a clean story, written in your format.

c

Your own slash commands

/brainstorm opens a live chat that becomes a note; /rewrite cleans one up. Each command is a markdown file you can edit.

brainstorm.md ● AI ready

# Brainstorm — gym finder app

I want make app for people find gym close. Right

now hard to know where gyms are. Also booking

for class complicated.

user-interviews.md

research

user-story-template.md

templates

competitor-research.md

research

✨ Turn this idea into a user story, following @user-story-template.

Your files in, answer inline — no chat window, no copy-paste.

02 · run

A code block becomes a little tool.

Write a JS block, press play: query a database, call an API, parse a file — the chart or table renders inline. Save the note and you've built a tool.

a

The Monday sales chart

db.query(...) → barChart(rows). Change the year, press play.

b

Clean up a CSV export

Parse, filter, and render the table right next to your notes.

c

Your own tiny status page

await fetch(...) your APIs, print the results. Rerun anytime.

q1-channels.md ● ran 230ms

# Q1 channel performance

▶```js

// change the year, press play

const rows = await db.query(`

SELECT channel, month, SUM(amount)

FROM orders WHERE year = 2026

`)

barChart({ horizontal: true, series: rows })

```

↓ inline output

total_sales by channel · 2023

Facebook Google

Save the note — it's a tool now. Press play next week.

03 · connect

Your notes, connected to your tools.

Znote speaks MCP, the open standard that connects AI to real tools. Write tools= in an AI block and the model can query, search and create — in GitHub, Postgres, Slack, Linear…

a

The standup that writes itself

tools=github → open PRs, yesterday's commits, a three-line brief.

b

Ask your database in English

tools=postgres → the AI reads your schema, writes the SQL, answers with a table.

c

Any server, one config file

Same format as Claude Desktop — paste a config and it works. 22 ready-to-run examples →

standup.md ● 2 tools connected

# Monday standup

▶```ai tools=github

Open PRs and yesterday's commits on

acme/webapp — draft my standup brief.

```

One config file — GitHub, Postgres, Slack, Linear, and hundreds more.

04 · version

Push your notes. Not your passwords.

Your vault is plain files — git-compatible, never required. Pull, commit and push from the app. And a note's passwords stay encrypted beside it, so the note is safe to commit.

a

Git from the sidebar, if you use it

Point your vault at a repository and ↓ ↑ appear when there is something to do, with a letter on every note that moved: A new, M modified, I incoming.

b

Passwords, encrypted next door

Write secret:cisco.password in the note; the value lives in an encrypted sidecar. Standard sops + age — readable from a terminal, without Znote.

c

Nothing slips into a commit

Znote protects every push: it reads what is about to leave and stops on a token left in the clear. How secrets work →

Infra.md ● pushed to origin/main

# Infra

Console : console.acme.io

Login : jane@acme.io

Password: ••••••••

▶```bash

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${secret:api.token}"

```

↓ what git carries

M Infra.md plain text — no password in it

A Infra.secrets.yaml encrypted · shared with the team

– Infra.local.secrets.yaml never committed

The note is safe to commit — the password was never in it.

users say

"My main tool for working."

"

The best "Jupyter-like" notebooks for JS.

mmrcbns

"

My go-to JavaScript playground. Run code directly in the app — huge time-saver. Clean interface, easy to navigate.

SSanjeet

"

Incredible product. Lets users learn and prototype faster. The AI integration is fantastic and JS+Markdown support is top-notch.

AAli

and the rest?

Just Markdown.

A calm WYSIWYG editor for plain .md files on your disk. Free, offline, no account — your Obsidian vault opens as-is.

WYSIWYG Beautiful themes Full-text search Plain .md · offline

download

Free to use.
Bring your own key.

Every feature, no license, no subscription. The AI runs on your own key — OpenAI, OpenRouter, or 100% local with Ollama — so you pay your provider at cost, or nothing at all with Ollama.

free · no account · your notes stay on your disk

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quick questions

Frequently asked.

Yes — the app and every feature are free, with no license to buy. The AI runs on your own key (OpenAI, Ollama, OpenRouter): you connect it once and pay your provider at cost, or nothing at all with Ollama running on your machine.

Znote is a focused Markdown editor with four things built in: AI that answers from your own notes, code blocks you can run, MCP servers that connect your real tools, and git to version the whole vault — output appears inline, in the note you are writing. No plugins, no cloud, no subscription. And since it's all plain .md, your Obsidian vault opens as-is.

Yes. The AI features need a key you provide — OpenAI, OpenRouter, or Ollama for a fully local setup. Znote walks you through it on first launch. Your models, your privacy, no markup, and nothing to buy from us.

On your machine. Plain .md files in folders you choose. No cloud, no account, no telemetry by default.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI use real tools. Declare servers in your vault — GitHub, Postgres, Slack, Linear, your filesystem, hundreds more — and your AI blocks can query, search and create through them. The config format is the same as Claude Desktop, and the servers run locally on your machine.

Still have questions? See full FAQ →

Notes that think and run.