QuickNote
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One box · Type a note or paste a link · Find it later

Write it down. Paste a link. Find every word later.

QuickNote has one box. Type in it to search your notes — or press Enter and those words become a new note. Paste an article, YouTube or Instagram link and QuickNote writes the actual content into the note, so you can search it later like anything else you wrote.

Open QuickNote How it works ↓

Watch the three steps below — or click into the demo and try it yourself.

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    ↑↓ move  ↵ open  Ctrl+↵ create  Esc back

    This is the real interface, running in your browser — click in and type, nothing is saved. Open the real app →

    How it works

    Three things, and you know the whole app

    There are no folders to set up, no notebooks to choose, no save button to remember. You get one box and a list of notes.

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      Type in the one box

      The box at the top searches while you type. If nothing matches what you typed, press Enter and those same words become a new note — the first line is the title.

      ↵ open the match · Ctrl+↵ create a note

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      Or paste a link instead of typing

      Paste an article, YouTube or Instagram link as a note. QuickNote reads the page, or the video’s captions and speech, and writes that text into the note for you.

      Needs a free account · takes a few seconds

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      Find it by anything you remember

      Search covers everything: what you wrote, the text pulled out of links, what was said in a video, tags, attachments. Notes work offline; sign in when you want them on another device.

      Ctrl+K jump back to the box

    Keyboard
    • ↑↓ move through the list
    • ↵ open the selected note
    • Ctrl+↵ create a note from what you typed
    • Ctrl+K jump back to search
    • Ctrl+S save right now
    • Esc back to the list

    On macOS, use ⌘ in place of Ctrl.

    Paste a link

    Paste a link, get what’s inside it

    Save the link as a note and QuickNote fills the note with the actual content — so months later you can find it by a sentence from the article, or a line someone said in a video.

    1. 01 / ARTICLE

      YOU PASTEexample.com/an-article

      The article, without the clutter

      The headline and the actual text land in your note. Menus, ads, cookie banners and “related stories” do not.

      IN THE NOTEtitle · source · clean text

    2. 02 / YOUTUBE

      YOU PASTEyoutube.com/watch?v=…

      Everything said in the video, as text

      QuickNote takes the video’s captions, or listens to the audio when there are none, and writes it all down for you.

      IN THE NOTEtitle · source · spoken text

    3. 03 / INSTAGRAM

      YOU PASTEinstagram.com/reel/…

      The recipe you saved from a Reel

      The caption and the spoken part of the Reel end up in one note — findable by a single ingredient, months later.

      IN THE NOTEcaption · source · spoken text

    Link processing runs on the QuickNote server, so it needs a free account. Everything else works offline, signed in or not. Open the app →

    Features

    What else is in there

    Nothing here needs setting up first. It is all there when you happen to need it.

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    Search while you type

    Results appear as you type, across titles, note text and tags. The matching words are highlighted in the list, so you can see why a note showed up without opening it.

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    Plain text that can look nice

    Write normally. Add headings, lists, checkboxes, tables or code if you feel like it, and press Preview for a clean reading view. Your notes stay plain text underneath.

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    [files]

    Drop files into a note

    Drag in a document, PDF, image, audio or video — or just paste a screenshot. It opens in a pane next to the note instead of disappearing into your downloads folder.

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    [export]

    Take everything with you

    One click exports your whole vault as ordinary Markdown files with your attachments. Nothing is locked in a format only QuickNote can read.

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    [share]

    Send one note to someone

    Turn a single note into a private link you can paste into a chat. It stays up to date, shows nothing else from your account, and you can switch it off whenever.

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    [sync]

    Same notes on every device

    Use it signed out and everything stays on your machine. Create an account and the same notes show up in the browser, the desktop app and the terminal — with a backup on the server.

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    [related]

    Find a note you can’t quite word

    When you don’t remember the exact words, QuickNote can bring up notes that are about the same thing — handy for digging up old thinking.

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    Use QuickNote where you already work. Browser, desktop, terminal, and a Chrome extension share the same capture loop.

    Open it and start typing.

    Try QuickNote locally without creating an account. Download the apps freely; sign in later if you want sync, backups, or link processing.

    Open QuickNote Download the apps

    Want it native? Grab the desktop installer and qn CLI — no account needed.