Your notes.Plain files.Yours.

A calm, offline Markdown notes app for the desktop. Every note is a .md file in a folder you choose. No account, nothing uploaded.

Download Ink

Linux AppImage available · Windows & macOS coming soon

Take the tour

Ink showing a note with a heading, a to-do list, a code block and a callout, with the page tree in the sidebar.

Slash menu
Markdown shortcuts
[[Wiki links]]
Backlinks
![[Embeds]]
Canvas
JSON Canvas
Kanban boards
Graph view
Coloured tags
Full-text search
Command palette
KaTeX math
Mermaid diagrams
Callouts
Toggles
Footnotes
Daily notes
Version history
Templates
Focus mode
Outline
Export to PDF
Spellcheck

A closer look

One quiet app, five ways to think

Blocks, saved as Markdown

Slash menu, formatting bar, drag to reorder. Every block is ordinary Markdown on disk.

The slash menu open in a note, listing block types such as headings, lists, tables, code, callouts and math.

Links that survive renames

[[Wiki links]], heading links, embeds and backlinks. Rename a page and the links follow.

A note embedding another note inline with ![[…]] and showing a backlinks panel at the bottom.

Think in space

Cards, note previews, images, link cards, groups and arrows. Same .canvas format as Obsidian.

An Ink canvas with Markdown cards, a note preview, a web link card and a group, joined by arrows.

See the shape of your notes

Every note and link, coloured by tag, with filters and force settings.

The graph view showing notes as dots joined by link lines, coloured by tag.

Kanban from a page

Headings become columns, to-dos become cards. Still a Markdown file.

A kanban board built from a page, with To do, Doing and Done columns of cards.

Inside Ink

Small details, everywhere

The things you reach for a hundred times a day, made to feel light.

Type `/` for anything

Headings, to-dos, tables, code, callouts, toggles, KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams. Or just type Markdown.

[[Links]] that keep up

Link pages and headings, embed notes inline. Rename something and every link follows.

A canvas, Obsidian-compatible

Cards, note previews, link cards, groups and arrows, saved as JSON Canvas. Export to PNG, SVG or PDF.

Boards from a page

Headings become columns and to-dos become cards. It stays a Markdown file underneath.

Graph view

How your notes link, coloured by tag.

Everything is `Ctrl` `K` away

Full-text search on a local SQLite index, with tag: and in: filters, plus every command.

Plain files · offline · yours

Open the folder. It's all there.

No database you can't read, no export step. Ink works on a folder of Markdown files, and that folder is the whole truth.

Plain files
Open them in any editor, back them up with any tool, leave whenever you like.
Offline, always
No server to talk to. Search is a local SQLite index; fonts are bundled.
Yours
No account, no sign-in, no analytics. Nothing is uploaded.

Already use Obsidian? Open the same folder. Links, boards and .canvas files work in both. How it works

Notes
.notesindex, trash, templates
Daily
2026-10-11.md
Projects
Roadmap.md
sketch.png
Projects.md
Project map.canvas

---
icon: 🗺️
tags: [work, q4]
---
# Roadmap

- [x] Ship the AppImage
- [ ] Windows build
- [ ] Write the docs

Ideas live in [[Projects#Ideas]].
![](sketch.png)

Give your notes a quiet place to live.

Ink 0.1.0 is available now for Linux. Windows and macOS builds are on the way.