notd

A boring, fast, native-feeling macOS app for capturing short text drafts. Each draft is one .md file in a folder you choose (default ~/Dropbox/Apps/notd/). Notes are represented by a row of colored dots at the top of the window — filenames are never shown. Sync is whatever your Dropbox client does; the app itself does no network I/O.

Local development

Prerequisites:

• Node 20+
• Rust (stable, 1.77+) — brew install rust or rustup
• Xcode Command Line Tools — xcode-select --install

Install and run:

npm install
npm run tauri dev

Build

npm run tauri build

This produces a .dmg under src-tauri/target/release/bundle/dmg/.

File format

Notes are plain Markdown files in your chosen folder, one per note, named YYYY-MM-DD-HHmmss.md. A hidden .notd-meta.json in the same folder tracks dot order and color assignment so they stay consistent across devices when synced via Dropbox.

If .notd-meta.json is missing or invalid, notd rebuilds it from the file modification times the next time it loads the folder.

License

MIT