Notesnook

An end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

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Overview

Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 & Argon2.

Notesnook is our proof that privacy does not (always) have to come at the cost of convenience. We aim to provide users peace of mind & 100% confidence that their notes are safe and secure. The decision to go fully open source is one of the most crucial steps towards that.

This repository contains all the code required to build & use the Notesnook web, desktop & mobile clients. If you are looking for a full feature list or screenshots, please check the website.

Developer guide

Technologies & languages

Notesnook is built using the following technologies:

1. JavaScript/Typescript — this repo is in a hybrid state. A lot of the newer code is being written in Typescript & the old code is slowly being ported over.
2. React — the whole front-end across all platforms is built using React.
3. React Native — For mobile apps we are using React Native
4. Electron — For desktop app
5. NPM — listed here because we don't use Yarn or PNPM or XYZ across any of our projects.

Note: Each project in the monorepo contains its own architecture details which you can refer to.

Monorepo structure

Name	Path	Description
@notesnook/web	/apps/web	Web client
@notesnook/desktop	/apps/desktop	Desktop client
@notesnook/mobile	/apps/mobile	Android/iOS clients
@notesnook/web-clipper	/extensions/web-clipper	Web clipper
@notesnook/core	/packages/core	Shared core between all platforms
@notesnook/crypto	/packages/crypto	Cryptography library wrapper around libsodium
@notesnook/clipper	/packages/clipper	Web clipper core handling everything related to actual page clipping
@notesnook/editor	/packages/editor	Notesnook editor + all extensions
@notesnook/editor-mobile	/packages/editor-mobile	A very thin wrapper around @notesnook/editor for mobile clients
@notesnook/logger	/packages/logger	Simple & pluggable logger
@notesnook/sodium	/packages/sodium	Wrapper around libsodium to support Node.js & Browser
@notesnook/streamable-fs	/packages/streamable-fs	Streaming interface around an IndexedDB based file system
@notesnook/theme	/packages/theme	The core theme used in web & desktop clients

Contributing guidelines

If you are interested in contributing to Notesnook, I highly recommend checking out the contributing guidelines. You'll find all the relevant information such as style guideline, how to make a PR, how to commit etc., there.

Support & help

You can reach out to us via:

1. Email
2. Discord
3. Twitter
4. Create an issue

We take all queries, issues and bug reports that you might have. Feel free to ask.

Additional Resources

• Migrating & Importing your data from other apps — Importer
• Privacy policy & Terms of service
• Verify Notesnook encryption claims yourself — Vericrypt
• Why Notesnook requires an email address?