A simple app
to write freely.
Pages, notes and lists, kept on your own machine. Blocks you can move, pages that link to each other, and stickies that sit beside the writing instead of inside it. Install it for Windows, or open it in a tab — either one is the whole app.
Windows or your browser · Free, forever · Runs entirely on your machine
The tide went out further than anyone could remember, and the boats leaned over in the mud like animals asleep. Check the tide tables for October — it matters more than it sounds, because everything after this depends on how long the flats stayed dry.
Ada had walked out there twice before, once as a child with her father and once alone. Both times are written down in The harbour, which is where the names of the boats are kept.
She went back for the tide tables and found them where she had left them, under the tin on the second shelf, still folded to the page her father had marked.
Pages nest, and link to each other
Type @ to mention another page. Rename it later and every mention follows.
Every block is an object
Reach into the margin for a handle and a +, or move a block with Alt Shift ↑.
Stickies live beside the page, not in it
Ctrl Space parks a note in the rail. It never exports and never counts toward your words.
Everything is one key away.
/ opens every block. @finds a page — or makes one that doesn’t exist yet, without moving your caret. Hold a selection and the bar comes to the words.
The insert menu
It was interesting, how different our lives were.
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The selection bar
It had been seven years since I saw my eldest brother last. So when we finally got to see each other again, it was prime time to do some long overdue bonding, as now I too was an adult. A big boy.
He looked at me bewildered and was like “What am I looking for outside.” And immediately memories of me shouting at raves by 2am flashed behind my eyes.
It notices that you wrote.
A square is a day, and it counts the words you touched, so an afternoon spent cutting still shows up. There are no streaks to keep and nothing to lose by skipping a week.
Your writing
A quick look at your writing activity.
Both apps work the same way.
They’re built on the same handful of rules. Neither one has an account screen, a sync indicator, or plans to grow one.
Local-first, by design
Everything is stored on your machine. Offline on a plane or off the grid for a week, both apps open exactly the same as they did yesterday.
No cloud, no account, no AI
Nothing to sign up for and nothing uploaded. There's no server on the other end, so your work stays where you put it.
Free, forever
No subscription, no seats, no tiers, no paid version coming later. You download them once and they're yours.
Built for one person first
I made both of these for my own work, and I use them every week. Things get added when I need them, not to reach more people.
Nothing you wrote is gone.
It’s all in one file on your disk, and every page keeps its own revisions. There’s no sync indicator because there’s nothing to sync.
It saves as you type
Half a second after you stop typing, and again when you navigate away, switch tabs or close the window. Saving never blocks a keystroke.
Every page keeps its own history
One snapshot per two minutes of actual writing, plus one each time you leave the page. Not one per keystroke, which would just fill your disk with hundreds of near-identical copies of the same chapter.
History
Chapter One
Kept: everything from the last day, hourly for a week, daily after that.
Or just open it in a tab.
The same PalmaNote, running in the browser you already have. Made for the moment you want to write something down now rather than install something first.
Nothing to install
One press and you are in it — no download, no account, no setup, no email address. It is the quick and easy way to use PalmaNote, and it is the whole app, not a preview of one.
Saved on your own machine
Your pages go into your browser's own storage, on this computer. Nothing is uploaded, there is no server on the other end, and it keeps working with the network off.
Everything comes back out
Export a page or the entire library — Word, markdown, PDF, or one folder holding all of it. The way out is built in, so nothing you write is ever stuck in here.
One thing worth knowing: because your pages live in this browser, clearing your browsing data clears them too, and they do not follow you to another computer. Keep an export somewhere of your own — and when the Windows app lands it will hold a real file on your disk, backed up nightly.
What’s new
A title bar you can take hold of.
Fixed
- The window drags by its whole top edge — the strip across the top and the sidebar's head, everywhere they are not a button.
- With a few pages open, the one part that used to move the window had been squeezed to a sliver between two icons. It is held clear now, however many tabs are up.
- The first launch no longer pins the window in place while it is showing you around.
Download PalmaNote. It's free, forever.
No account required · Nothing uploaded · Runs entirely on your machine.