Noted is a simple, private notepad for Markdown, Word, and HTML documents.
Open, read, write, compare, annotate, and export your documents in one place. Everything runs in your browser, works offline, and nothing leaves your machine.
- Load: drag-and-drop or browse for a
.md,.docx, or.htmlfile (hover the "Noted" logo for the full supported-extension list). - Viewer: rendered Markdown, default view -
.md/.docx-derived content is sanitized before it's ever rendered. A loaded.htmlfile renders live and unsanitized in a sandboxed viewer instead (full CSS/SVG/JS animation fidelity, view-only - see below). .htmllive viewer: a loaded.htmlfile's embedded animation, vector graphics, and scripts render exactly as authored, in a sandboxed<iframe>isolated from the rest of the app. View-only (no Edit tab) and.html-export-only, since there's no lossless way to fold arbitrary HTML+JS back into Markdown/.docx/.json.- Copy: one click to copy the file's content.
- Theme: 7 themes (Sakura, Cherry, Forest Brew, Tea Mist, Blueberry, Kokoblu, Dubai) - a popover picker, not a toggle. Cherry is the default for a first-time visitor.
- Typing effects: keystrokes and deletions get a subtle animated flourish - a glyph glow on insert, a top-down decay (with a reverse word-by-word wave for deleting a whole selection) on delete, and a liquid caret stretch when the cursor moves - all purely decorative, respecting
prefers-reduced-motion. - Edit tab: 18-color highlighter, paragraph styles, bold/italic/underline/strikethrough.
- Export:
.html,.pdf,.docx,.md,.json. - Dual window: two independent panes, side by side, for comparing two files.
- Offline mode: opt-in, self-updating cache.
- Visitor counter: real, deduped by IP+device+day (GoatCounter) - refreshing the page doesn't inflate it.
See docs/product/PRODUCT-SPEC.md Section 3 for the full scope (and what's deliberately out).
| Document | Answers |
|---|---|
PRODUCT-PRINCIPLES.md |
Why - ABIM method, MVD filter, Noted's design concept and operating principle |
PRODUCT-SPEC.md |
What - identity, architecture, feature set, criteria |
PRODUCT-ROADMAP.md |
When - v1 scope, draft future phases |
PRODUCT-DECISIONS.md |
Who decides, and how - roles, decision boundaries, ADR log |
Read REPO-STANDARD.md before modifying this repository.
- Adam Rosman — Founder, Forage. Product direction and every material decision recorded in this repo (see
docs/product/PRODUCT-DECISIONS.md). - Claude (Anthropic) — AI pair-programmer. Drafted the docs, app, and everything currently in
src/under the Founder's direction. Flagging the honest mismatch rather than papering over it: GitHub's "Contributors" graph is commit-authorship-based and tied to a real account, which Claude doesn't have - so this line is the accurate record, not that graph. Commits authored with Claude's involvement carry aCo-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>trailer.
MIT - see LICENSE.