Your notes folder

A note is a Markdown file on your Mac. InkDo opens a folder, shows its notes in a sidebar, and saves changes back to the same files. Other apps can open them too.

Open a folder

1. Press ⇧⌘O (File → Open folder…) and pick a folder.
2. Press ⌘\ to show or hide the sidebar. It opens when you open a folder.
3. Click a note to open it. ⌘N makes a new one.

To open a single file, press ⌘O. InkDo opens .md, .markdown and .mdown files, and offers itself under Open With in Finder without taking over your default.

The sidebar

The sidebar shows one folder at a time: its subfolders with their note counts, then its notes with a title, a one-line snippet and a date. A note’s title is its front-matter title:, else its first heading, else its file name. Hidden folders, node_modules and *.assets folders are not listed. Changes made by other apps show up at once.

The File menu and ⌘K have Duplicate note, Pin or unpin note, Show in Finder and Move note to Trash. Pin also sits at the top right of the title bar.

Saving

InkDo saves for you, half a second after you stop typing, when the window loses focus, and before you switch notes or quit. ⌘S saves at once. If another app changes the file, InkDo re-reads it.

Earlier versions of each note are kept on your Mac. See Find and organise.

Links between notes

Write [[Note]] to link to another note in the folder. ⇧⌘B opens Backlinks, the notes that link to the one you’re in. If you rename a note in InkDo, the links to it and its images follow.

Images

Images and other files you add live in a folder named after the note, such as Trip.assets, beside it. They move with the note when you rename it. See Images and media.