Product
A research journal that is just files.
Everything below runs on your device, works offline and writes ordinary Markdown. No feature here needs an account, a server or a subscription.
Keyboard first
Press ⌘ K.
Every command, note and setting is one search away. The same registry powers the slash menu,
so / inserts anything the palette can, right at the cursor.
- Command palette. Search notes, open the graph, publish, switch vault.
- Slash menu. About 90 blocks: callouts, maths, theorems, flashcards, tasks.
- Shortcuts you can learn. ⌘ / lists them all.
- Search notes⌘⇧F
- Open graph⌘G
- Publish vault
- New daily note⌘D
- Open settings⌘,
What is in the box
The essentials, done carefully.
Grouped by what you are doing. Each links to the page in the docs that shows how.
Write
- Markdown editor with edit, split, reading and source views
- Slash menu and a floating format bar
- Maths with KaTeX, numbered equations, theorem and proof blocks
- Callouts, coloured highlights, tables, code
- Images and attachments with relative paths
Connect
- Wiki links with aliases, headings and embeds
- Backlinks, unlinked mentions, broken-link and orphan detection
- Links rewritten automatically when a note is renamed
- Tags and properties, frontmatter kept verbatim
- Graph of the vault or of one note
Research
- PDF viewer: text layer, search, thumbnails, page links
- Split view: the paper on the left, your note on the right
- Citation keys in Pandoc syntax, listed per note
- Daily notes and a calendar from your dates
- Research, reading and lecture templates
Study
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Flashcards from
Question::andAnswer:: - Study mode with confidence ratings and a hard-only filter
- Exam dashboard: upcoming dates, recent lectures
- Tasks with due dates, priority and recurrence
Find
- Full-text search in a background worker
- Exact word and phrase, case, scope
- Filters:
tag:path:type:and dates - Quick switcher across notes and vaults
Share
- Publish notes as a static website
- Export a vault or a note as a ZIP of Markdown
- Import Markdown folders and ZIPs
- Print and PDF from the reading view
Search
Find the note you half remember.
Neoma indexes your vault on the device, in a background worker, so typing stays smooth on large vaults. Filters narrow it down without a query language to learn.
- Transformers.mdSequence models that replace recurrence with attention.
- Neural Networks.mdThe foundation for Transformers
- Sources.mdAttention Is All You Need, 2017.
Graph
Connection, not decoration.
Neutral nodes, with the current note and its links in Fern. Colour a folder when it helps you read the shape of a vault, and filter by depth, tag or path.
Why trust it
The architecture is the promise.
Neoma does not ask you to trust a privacy policy. It is built so that keeping your notes is the only thing it can do with them.
Open source
The web edition is AGPL-3.0. Read every line.
Markdown
Notes are .md files that any editor opens.
Offline
After the first load, nothing needs the network.
No account
There is no sign-up, so there is no profile.
No telemetry
No analytics or crash reporting. Checked in CI.
Self-hostable
One static build, or one Docker command.