I’m a product designer, and for a while now I’ve been building Tagdown, a notes editor for macOS. The core idea: every note is an ordinary Markdown file in a folder on your disk. No account, no proprietary database. Git, iCloud or Syncthing just work, because it’s just files. On top of Markdown it adds: callouts, tabs, KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams, all as plain text #tags, [[wikilinks]] with backlinks, and links to single blocks that you can embed in other notes live queries like that collect tasks from all your notes, or show notes as an editable table of their properties a journal, version history, slides, HTML/PDF export, and publishing notes as a static website a CLI and an MCP server, so Claude or other assistants can search and write your notes It’s built with Tauri, Rust (Tantivy for search) and TypeScript, and it’s MIT licensed. Honest state: it’s early. There’s no download yet, so you’ll have to build it from source (Node + Rust). There are rough edges, and I’d rather hear about them now than later. Two things I’d really like your opinion on: Does the syntax feel natural, or is it too much on top of Markdown? What would stop you from switching from your current notes app? Repo: github.com/sthix/tagdown Docs: sthix.github.io/tagdown   submitted by   /u/sth6 [link]   [comments]