FlashNote - Flowing Thoughts & Notes

Just write, leave the rest to us. Markdown, diagrams & math, 1-click blog publishing. Every fleeting spark, woven into chapters.

✨ FlashNote — Where every spark of thought finds its place. A modern, lightning-fast browser sidebar writing tool & static blog editor built for geeks, authors, technical bloggers, and researchers. "Just write, leave the rest to us. Every fleeting spark, woven into chapters." Whether capturing sudden flashes of inspiration or organizing a structured technical masterpiece, FlashNote delivers an uninterrupted, silky-smooth writing and typesetting experience directly in your browser sidebar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 Key Features ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍️ 1. Seamless Fusion of WYSIWYG & Pure Markdown • No More Split-Screen Disconnection: Powered by a robust modern rich-text engine, headings, bold, italics, lists, and task checkboxes format immediately under your cursor. • 4 Flexible View Modes: - 🎨 Visual Mode: Distraction-free formatting, intuitive like Notion. - 📑 Dual-Pane Mode: Rich text editor on the left with live Markdown source inspection on the right. - 📝 Raw Markdown Mode: Native plain-text keystroke flow for purists. - 🌐 Clean Reader Mode: Safe link navigation and comfortable long-form reading. 📊 2. Engineering & Research Studio: Mermaid & KaTeX • Interactive Mermaid Diagrams: - Real-time rendering of flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, Gantt charts, and state machines. - Interactive Canvas Gestures: Pan across massive architectures with hand grab (`cursor: grab`), and double-click to center and reset. - Immersive Fullscreen Lightbox: Zoom freely from 30% to 350%. - Lossless Export: One-click export to crisp SVG or 2x Retina PNG with tailored padding and solid background, ready to share. • KaTeX LaTeX Mathematics: - Native inline ($E=mc^2$) and multiline block math formulas. - Quick math toolbar for inserting Greek symbols and operators with zero delay. 📂 3. Dual-Track Creative Workspace: Quick Notes & Multi-Chapter Books • Quick Notes: - Pin, star, and capture code snippets, todos, and daily insights. - Elegant Morandi color-coded categories with quick drawer expansion or permanent sidebar pinning. - Deep full-text and title search with high-contrast fluorescent highlights and history recall. • Structured Books: - Hierarchical tree-based chapter outlines with easy drag-and-drop reorganization. - Continuous reader view for seamless, distraction-free book reading. 🚀 4. Blog-Ready Publishing Pipeline • Clean decoupling between storage folders and categorization tags. • Built-in compliance with VitePress, Astro, and Hugo standards: generates clean posts/{folder}/{slug}.md paths. • Automated 5-element YAML FrontMatter (date, title, category, tags, description) for effortless one-step publishing. ☁️ 5. Data Ownership & Delta Cloud Sync • Smart chunking and cryptographic hash engine that uploads only modified chapters, preventing timeout errors. • Automatically aggregates and generates standalone monolithic markdown books and open SUMMARY.md catalogs. Your data remains 100% yours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 Quick Start Tips ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Quick Summon: Press Command + Shift + F (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + F (Windows) to instantly open FlashNote. 2. Insert Diagrams & Math: Click the Diagram or Math buttons in the toolbar, or simply type ```mermaid code blocks. 3. Pin Sidebar: Hover over the logo on the left to reveal the note drawer, then click [📌 Pin] to lock it in place. Privacy Assurance: FlashNote deeply respects your privacy. All notes and book data remain strictly in local browser storage and are never uploaded to any remote server without your explicit command.