Getting started: How to start with Znote
Plain Markdown notes on your disk. No account. Free to use.
Poke around — this note is yours to break. The one move to learn: right-click anywhere. 👇
Select the sentence below, then right-click → AI — Improve, Shorten, Fix or Summarize:
This sentence is, honestly, quite a bit longer and more roundabout than it really needs to be in order to get its fairly simple point across.
It rewrites right here, in your note — no chat tab, no copy-paste. Works on any text you select, anywhere.
🖱️ That same right-click menu is your toolbox everywhere — AI actions, plus blocks you can drop in: code, tables, AI prompts.
✨ The editor is free. The AI is free to try right now — when you want it running full-time, it runs on your own key, no markup.
Ctrl+N — new noteCtrl+Y — search across everything.md files as a vault. Yes, your Obsidian vault too: wikilinks and embeds just work, and Znote never rewrites your files.💾 This note is a real
.mdfile on your disk — right-click it in the tree → Show in explorer to see for yourself. Back it up, sync it, open it anywhere: it's yours.
💬 Want to ask about the whole note instead of rewriting a selection? Hit
Ctrl+Hto chat with it — and type@to pull any other note in as context.
Testing code? Enable Run code blocks in the top toolbar, open the gallery (Ctrl+N → New from Template) for ready-to-run examples — run JS, query a DB or test an API.
Want AI running full-time? Plug in your own key — OpenAI, Ollama or OpenRouter. One-time unlock, you pay the provider directly, and your key never leaves your machine.