OWL-Note

Markdown notes that live in your browser bookmarks. Photos, attachments, built-in RAG. Free, private. Syncs via Google/Microsoft.

🦉 Markdown notes — synced across your devices OWL‑Note is a free, local-first Markdown notebook. Notes automatically sync through your Chrome or Edge account when bookmark sync is enabled. A notebook, right inside your browser. **A notebook, right inside your browser extension.** --- ✨ Save an entire AI conversation in one click Right-click the page → Rebuild LLM chat to OWL‑Note Convert supported ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar conversation pages into editable Markdown—not screenshots. ✔ User and assistant messages ✔ Headings, paragraphs, lists, and links ✔ Tables ✔ Fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting ✔ KaTeX math ✔ Supported images as attachments ✔ Original source URL Conversion happens locally inside the extension. No API key or cloud conversion service is required. --- 📸 Capture an entire page as one long image Right-click → Capture entire page to OWL‑Note OWL‑Note scrolls and stitches the page, including content below the fold, into one long image. Useful for: ✔ Long articles ✔ Technical documentation ✔ Assignments and feedback ✔ Receipts and confirmations ✔ Dashboards and reports ✔ Complex page layouts Capture and image stitching happen locally. --- 🎨 Draw and annotate inside your notes Click Draw to open the built-in sketchpad. ✔ Freehand pen ✔ Highlighter and eraser ✔ Lines and arrows ✔ Rectangles and rounded rectangles ✔ Circles and ellipses ✔ Multiple colors and stroke sizes ✔ Shift constraints for straight lines, squares, and circles ✔ Paste, move, and resize photos ✔ Undo and redo ✔ Save the drawing directly into the note Drawings are generated locally and inserted as PNG attachments. --- 🎙️ Live Transcription save to OWL-Note Right-click a supported browser tab → Live Transcription save to OWL-Note Turn speech from a playing browser tab into an editable Markdown note using Chrome's native on-device speech recognition. ✔ Live captions in a draggable overlay ✔ Video continues playing normally ✔ Automatically organized into readable paragraphs ✔ Source URL, date, duration, and periodic timestamps ✔ Save or discard directly from the caption overlay ✔ Saved automatically if the captured tab closes ✔ Transcript opens immediately in OWL-Note ✔ Audio is never uploaded or stored Chrome 139 or newer and a supported local speech language are required. Chrome may download the selected language resource after confirmation. --- 🔗 Share and export individual notes Open the note’s Share menu to: ✔ Create a PDF locally and share it through the system share menu ✔ Download the PDF when system sharing is unavailable ✔ Export an editable .owl-note package with supported attachments ✔ Optionally create a public, read-only PDF link in your Google Drive Creating a public Drive link always requires confirmation. The shared PDF remains in your Drive until you revoke access or delete it. --- 📝 A complete Markdown notebook ✔ Live Markdown preview and automatic saving ✔ Code syntax highlighting and KaTeX math ✔ Photos, file attachments, and drawings ✔ Zoomable, drag-to-pan image viewer ✔ Phonetic Assistance: IPA for English, hiragana for Japanese kanji, and pinyin for Chinese ✔ Nested notebooks and multi-select organization ✔ Pinning and newest-first sorting ✔ Trash, restore, and permanent deletion ✔ Search notes and find text within the current note ✔ Created and updated timestamps ✔ Import existing notes into OWL-Note from Markdown, ENEX, Json or DOCX documents. ✔ Export: Markdown ZIP, JSON, PDF, .owl-note package --- 🦉 Ask Owl — retrieval and on-device AI Ask natural-language questions about your notes. Without on-device AI, Ask Owl displays matching excerpts from your notes. When the browser’s on-device LanguageModel API is available, it can generate grounded answers with citations. ✔ Keyword retrieval across your notes ✔ Optional meaning-based semantic search ✔ One-click note summarization ✔ Deterministic Markdown tidying without AI rewriting ✔ On-device AI title suggestions ✔ CJK-aware retrieval for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text The optional semantic index requires a one-time model download of approximately 130 MB. Its inference and indexing run locally. --- 🔒 Private by design ✔ No separate OWL‑Note account ✔ No subscription ✔ No OWL‑Note backend ✔ No telemetry ✔ No advertising ✔ Notes stored in browser bookmarks when within sync limits ✔ Capture, drawing, conversion, retrieval, and AI processing run locally ✔ Content is sent to Google Drive only when Drive sync or Drive sharing is explicitly enabled ✔ Manifest V3 extension ✔ Open source under GPL‑3.0-or-later ✔ Optional Google Drive support can sync large notes and attachments. oversized content remains safely stored on the current device. Works with Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium‑based browsers.