A walk through Solo Note on macOS — the three-pane main view, the block editor, focus mode, todos with due dates, version history, encrypted export, theming, and isolated Spaces.
Folders, tags, and quick-access entries on the left. A list of notes in the middle. A real macOS text editor on the right — keyboard‑first, drag‑friendly, and reordering blocks animates the way you'd expect.
#launch for anything that has to ship today.Every block in Solo Note lives behind a fuzzy slash menu. Headings, lists, callouts, todos, code with syntax highlighting for 22 languages, tables, quotes, dividers — all rearrangeable, all keyboard-first.
Toggle focus / typewriter mode with ⌃⌘F. Every block but the active one dims out. The view scrolls so the cursor sits in the center of the screen as you type. The only thing left in the room is the sentence you're working on.
Solo Note has standalone Todo Lists alongside todo blocks inside notes. Link a checkbox to a list and the task shows up everywhere it should. Add due dates and daily / weekly / monthly recurrence — completing one rolls the date forward.
Solo Note keeps up to fifty timestamped versions of every note. Browse the timeline, preview any version side-by-side, and restore in place. The entire history is held inside the encrypted database — nothing escapes the vault.
Export any selection — or your whole notebook — into
a single .solonote file. AES-256-GCM
with a password-derived key (PBKDF2-SHA512, 600 000
iterations). Manifest tamper is detected through
AEAD authenticated data. The outer container leaks
only its name and size.
Switch any folder into a sortable table view. Show or hide columns built from custom properties — text, number, date, or select. Sort, filter, and drag-drop notes into other folders without leaving the table.
Keep Work, Personal, and Research in fully isolated Spaces and switch between them from the toolbar. Each Space is its own encrypted notebook — folders, notes, tags, and palettes never cross between them.