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Zennotes
Keyboard-first local Markdown notes with Vim motions, diagrams, and MCP integration.
Install
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brew install --cask zennotes/tap/zennotesInstall command taken from the project's README or registry entry. Always review code before running it.
README excerpt
Read full README on GitHub →ZenNotes
[!NOTE] I build ZenNotes with a lot of help from AI tools like Claude and Codex. They let me move much faster, but I still go through some of the code before I ship it. The architecture, the technical decisions, and the trade-offs are things I still spend a lot of time thinking about. AI helps me write code faster, but it doesn't replace understanding how the system works.
ZenNotes is a keyboard-first Markdown notes app with a shared product core and multiple runtimes:
- a desktop app built with Electron
- a self-hosted web app backed by a Go server
- a future hosted deployment mode built on the same web/server stack
ZenNotes keeps your notes as ordinary Markdown files on disk. It adds Vim-friendly editing, split and preview workflows, tasks, tags, archive/trash, diagrams, search, daily notes, CSV databases (Notion-style Table + Board views over plain .csv files), and MCP integration on top of the files you already own.
On macOS, the first-party zen CLI also powers launcher workflows such as the Raycast extension.
Grab the latest build from GitHub Releases — see Install below.
Website: zennotes.org
Support development: GitHub Sponsors
Detailed in-repo documentation lives under docs/README.md.
Install
All desktop installers are attached to each GitHub Release. The app auto-updates, so you only download once. (Replace <version> with the current release, e.g. 2.2.0.)
macOS
Homebrew (recommended):
brew install --cask zennotes/tap/zennotes
Or download the .dmg for your chip, open it, and drag ZenNotes to Applications. Builds are signed and notarized.
- Apple Silicon:
ZenNotes-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg - Intel:
ZenNotes-<version>-mac-x64.dmg
Windows
Download and run the installer for your PC:
- Intel and AMD:
ZenNotes-<version>-win-x64.exe - ARM (Snapdragon and other Windows on ARM):
ZenNotes-<version>-win-arm64.exe
Linux
Pick whatever suits your distro:
- Arch / CachyOS / Manjaro — AUR (recommended):
Installs cleanly withoutyay -S zennotes-bin # or: paru -S zennotes-binlibfuse2. - Arch — native package:
sudo pacman -U ZenNotes-<version>-linux-x86_64.pacman - Debian / Ubuntu:
sudo apt install ./ZenNotes-<version>-linux-amd64.deb - Nix / NixOS: Read packaging/nix/README.md for installation instructions
- Any distro — AppImage:
AppImages need FUSE 2. On distros that ship only FUSE 3 (Arch, CachyOS, Fedora), either install it (chmod +x ZenNotes-<version>-linux-x86_64.AppImage ./ZenNotes-<version>-linux-x86_64.AppImagesudo pacman -S fuse2,sudo dnf install fuse) or run without FUSE:
(Or just use the AUR /./ZenNotes-<version>-linux-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run.pacman/.debpackage, which sidestep this entirely.)
zen CLI
The desktop app installs a zen command-line companion from Settings → CLI — list, read, search, capture, edit, archive/trash notes, plus tasks, folders, and MCP. On macOS it can also install the Raycast extension locally.
Self-hosted web app
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