OpenNote

A block-based, AI-powered note-taking app with semantic search — built entirely in Rust.

Status: Heavy Development — APIs, architecture, and workflows are evolving quickly. Contributions, feedback, and experimental use are all welcome.

Features

Keyword and semantic search — find notes instantly, or let your documents answer your questions.
Fully local — everything runs on your machine. Your data stays private.
Self-host Server — you can opt to run a self-hosted server to sync data across all of your devices with encrypted communications. 🔥🔥🔥newly added🔥🔥🔥
Blazing fast — built for performance from the ground up.

Roadmap

Self-hosted server for syncing documents across devices with encrypted communications
Multi-modal support
MCP server support
Import webpages, databases and files
Advanced NLP features to simplify document management (e.g., automatic categorization by semantic similarity)
LLM integrations — local-first, always

Getting Started

Visit the Releases page.
Download the archive for your operating system.
Unzip the archive.
Double-click to launch the app.
Enjoy!

For mac users: I don't have an Apple Developer Account yet, so I can't codesign the mac app. You may need to run the following command in Terminal, after pasting the app file to the Applications folder:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/opennote.app

Configure the Desktop App

You can configure OpenNote with its configurations.json. It can be found here:

# on macOS
"/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/opennote/configurations.json"

# on Linux
"/home/yourusername/.config/opennote/configurations.json"

# on Windows
"C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming\opennote\configurations.json"

However, you may also open the configuration editor by pressing CMD + ; on macOS, or Ctrl + ; on Windows and Linux.

Setup Remote Server

You may host a remote server for syncing across different computers securely. To achieve this, refer to README.md of opennote-server.

Contributing

OpenNote is in active development and welcomes contributions of all kinds — bug reports, feature ideas, code, documentation, and design.

Open issues and pull requests on GitHub
Explore the crate documentation in the source
Reach out with questions or ideas

Credits

Kudos to all the libraries used in this project. See the full list in Cargo.toml and in the Cargo.toml of each sub-crate.

Thanks to appify for bundling the executable as a macOS app.

Thanks to sqlite for localizing relational database.

Thanks to sqlite-vector for localizing vector storages.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

This project includes code derived from Zed under the Apache 2.0 license — see NOTICE.md.

Opennote

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