A standalone Markdown notes editor. Qt 6 native. Built on Quill with LanguageTool grammar checking, browser-native spell check, and a clean dark theme.
Designed to play well with any tool that watches a folder for Markdown
changes — pairs naturally with cloud-storage sync clients, file-watching
daemons, or just a plain ~/Notes directory.
Pre-compiled binaries are published as GitHub releases.
| Platform | Status |
|---|---|
| Linux x86_64 | Available — see Releases |
| Linux aarch64 | Build from source on request |
| macOS / Windows | Builds from source; binary distribution under consideration |
After download, see the README inside the tarball for install instructions.
- Quill-based WYSIWYG editor (the same Markdown UX you'd find in well-built
web editors — bold, italic, lists, headings, code, links — plus Markdown
round-trip via
marked+turndown) - Live spell check (Chromium dictionaries, multi-language)
- Live grammar check via LanguageTool's public API
- File-list sidebar with search filter
- Idiomatic dark theme; KDE-friendly
- Clean menu structure: File / Help / hamburger fallback for desktops without global menu integration
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+N | New note |
| Ctrl+S | Save current note |
| Ctrl+Shift+D | Delete current note (confirmation prompt) |
| F5 | Refresh folder listing |
| Ctrl+R | Sync from companion folder watcher (if configured) |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit |
SkyNote is a single Qt 6 / QML application (~510 KB binary) that:
- Watches a single folder for
.mdfiles (default~/iCloud-Notes). - Renders each file's contents in a Quill editor (HTML in-memory; Markdown on disk).
- Saves on Ctrl+S — writes the file back as Markdown via
turndown.
Everything else is on top of that. SkyNote intentionally does not implement its own cloud sync; it expects the host system to handle whatever folder-watching it does (rsync, Nextcloud, Syncthing, an SMB mount, your own daemon).
Proprietary — Copyright © 2026 Skylark Software LLC, all rights reserved.
The precompiled binary is provided for personal use; modification, reverse
engineering, redistribution, and derivative works are not permitted without
prior written permission. See LICENSE for the full notice and the
third-party software attributions (Qt 6, Quill, marked, turndown, Sora).
If you hit a bug, please open a GitHub issue. Include:
- Distro / DE
- Output of
skynote --version - Relevant lines from
journalctl --user -t skynote - A short description of what you were doing
iCloud, iPhone, and Apple Notes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Skylark Software LLC is an independent vendor and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Apple Inc. Mentions of these names in this README and within the SkyNote application refer only to interoperability with the user's existing infrastructure and are used in their nominative sense.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
