Features

Everything Ink does

A tour of what ships in version 0.1. Screenshots follow your system's light or dark theme, like the app.

01 Writing

Write in blocks, save as Markdown

The editor feels like a document and stores like a text file.

Slash menu: Press / for headings, lists, to-dos, tables, code, callouts, toggles, math, Mermaid diagrams, images, dividers and footnotes.
Formatting bar and shortcuts: A floating bar appears over selected text. Markdown shortcuts such as # and - work at the start of a line.
Drag to reorder: Grab a block by its handle and drag it to a new place.
Code, math, diagrams: Syntax highlighting in code blocks, KaTeX for formulas, Mermaid for diagrams. Diagrams follow the light and dark theme.

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

02 Linking

Notes that know about each other

Links are plain text, so they survive any tool you use later.

Wiki links: [[Page]] links to a note and [[Page#Heading]] jumps to a section.
Embeds: ![[Page]] shows another note inline, so one note can be built from several.
Backlinks: Every page lists the notes that link to it, in a panel at the bottom.
Rename-safe: Rename a page or a heading and the links that point to it are rewritten.

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

03 Canvas

An endless surface for ideas

Same JSON Canvas format Obsidian uses, so .canvas files open in both apps.

Cards of every kind: Markdown cards with the full block editor inside, live previews of your notes, images, and web link cards with the page title and description.
Groups and arrows: Groups fold away when you do not need them. Arrows can be curved, straight or right-angled, with your choice of arrowheads.
Tidy tools: Alignment guides, align and distribute, find-in-canvas, and Shift+1 to show everything.
Export and history: Export as PNG, SVG or PDF. Version history keeps earlier states of a canvas.

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

04 Boards

Kanban, built from a page

Turn a page into a board and back again. It stays a Markdown file.

Columns and cards: Each heading is a column and each to-do is a card. Drag cards and columns around.

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

05 Organising

Find things, keep things

Tags, search and a palette for everything else.

Tags with colours: Tag a page and give the tag a colour. The graph view uses those colours.
Search and palette: Full-text search runs on a local SQLite index. tag: and in: operators narrow it. Ctrl+K opens the command palette.
Graph view: See how notes link, with filter and force settings.
Daily notes: One note per day, in a folder you configure.
Favorites, icons, covers, templates: Star pages, give them an icon, emoji or cover, and start new pages from templates.

The command palette open with a search for a tag, listing matching notes with snippets.

06 Safety net

Mistakes are recoverable

Undo is only the first layer.

Version history: Pages and canvases keep earlier versions you can look back at.
Trash with restore: Deleted pages go to a trash you can restore from.
Export: Export a page to Markdown, HTML or PDF.

The version history dialog listing earlier saved versions of a page, each with a Restore button.

07 Comfort

Make it fit how you read

Quiet by default, adjustable when you want it.

Themes: Dark, light, or follow the system.
Text size and page width: Both adjustable, plus a focus mode and an outline panel for long pages.
Spellcheck: Pick the languages you write in.

The settings dialog with theme, text size, page width, sidebar layout, notes folder, daily notes and canvas options.

08 Privacy

Your notes never leave your machine

Notes are plain .md files in a folder you choose. Ink has no account system and uploads nothing. The app's UI is bundled and its fonts are bundled. This website uses no analytics, no cookies and no third-party requests.

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