Privacy-first notes on your Mac. Everything stays on your machine—no cloud, no account, no sync.

A desktop app built with Tauri 2 (Rust) and React + TypeScript, storing notes and images locally with a fast, searchable index.

The app uses a three-panel layout with a light, minimal theme.

• Header — Window title “Local Notes”, View menu, calendar (e.g. today’s date), and New button with dropdown for creating notes (including from templates).
• Left sidebar
  • Search — “Search in content…” for full-text search across notes.
  • Filters — Tag and Date dropdowns, plus an Attachments checkbox.
  • STARRED — “No starred notes” when empty; shows starred notes when present.
  • TASKS — “All” dropdown and list of tasks (e.g. “Meeting 2026-02-20”) with star icons.
  • DAILY — Today’s date and “Today” for the daily note.
  • TAGS — All tags (e.g. #2026-02-20, #meeting-2026-02-20, #myfirstone, #testing, #welcome); click to filter.
  • NOTEBOOKS — UNFILED and other notebooks (e.g. “MyFirstOne”, “Welcome”) with star icons.
• Central panel — When no note is selected: “Select a note from the sidebar or create a new one,” plus shortcuts: ⌘N new note, ⌘S save, ⌘K command palette, ⌘⇧F focus mode.
• Right panel — Note details; shows “Select a note to see details” until a note is selected.

Opened from New ▾ → Manage templates… (or equivalent). Used to define and manage reusable note templates.

• Add template
  • Template name — Text field (e.g. “custom template”).
  • Template body — Multi-line area with hint: “Template body (use {{date}} and {{title}} as placeholders)”.
  • Add template — Button to save the new template.
• Your templates — List of existing templates (e.g. “Daily Log”, “daily log”) each with a Delete button.
• Close — “X” in the top-right to dismiss the modal.

• Create and edit notes — Plain-text .txt files with auto-save (300ms debounce)
• Rich formatting — Toolbar for bold, headings, lists, code; Markdown in body
• Note linking — [[Note Title]] creates links; backlinks shown in the inspector
• Image attachments — Drag & drop or Attach button; thumbnails, Open/Remove; stored in app data
• Version history — Restore previous versions; last 30 per note; timeline in inspector

• Tag input in note header — Add or remove tags via chips and an “Add tag…” field
• Click to filter — Click any tag in the sidebar or inspector to filter notes
• Auto-suggestions — Dropdown suggests existing tags and “Create #tagname” for new ones
• Smart tags — #tag in the body plus an auto slug from the note title (e.g. “Project Alpha” → project-alpha)
• Sidebar Tags section — All tags listed; click to filter; hint when empty

• Full-text search — 150ms debounce; operators: tag:xyz, is:starred, date:today; match highlight
• Starred notes — Mark important; “Important” section in sidebar
• Daily notes — ⌘⇧D opens or creates today’s note (YYYY-MM-DD), auto-tagged #daily
• Notebooks — Group notes into notebooks; expandable sidebar section
• Tasks — Filter by has:tasks, is:completed, is:uncompleted

• New from template — “New ▾” dropdown: Blank note, Daily journal, Meeting notes, Project planning, or custom
• Custom templates — Add templates with {{date}} and {{title}} placeholders; manage in “Manage templates…”

• Resizable sidebar — Important, Tags, All Notes, Recently Edited, Notebooks; state persisted
• Inline rename — Double-click a note title in the sidebar to edit (Enter / Esc)
• Focus mode — ⌘⇧F hides sidebar and toolbar; centered editor (max 720px)
• Command palette — ⌘K: new note, from template, jump to note, focus mode, search
• Inspector — Word count, reading time, last edited, tags (clickable), backlinks, attachments; toggle in toolbar
• View density — Compact, Comfortable, Spacious (persisted)

• Local only — All data under ~/Library/Application Support/LocalPrivateNotes/
• Safe storage — Sanitized filenames, no directory traversal, atomic metadata writes

~/Library/Application Support/LocalPrivateNotes/
├── notes/
│   └── <noteId>.txt
├── versions/
│   └── <noteId>/
│       └── <timestamp>.json   # last 30 per note
├── meta/
│   └── index.json
└── images/
    └── <noteId>/
        └── <timestamp>-<filename>.<ext>

# Clone and enter the project
cd LocalNotes

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run in development (Vite + Tauri window)
npm run tauri dev

# Build production app
npm run tauri build

The built app is in src-tauri/target/release/ (and the .app bundle on macOS).

If the build complains about missing icons:

# Use a 1024×1024 PNG as app icon
npm run tauri icon app-icon.png

This generates src-tauri/icons/ and updates the bundle.

Rust tests: cd src-tauri && cargo test

MIT (or your choice).