Noet

Overview

Note-taking apps tend to trap your writing in a proprietary database or a web service you don't control. Noet inverts that: every note is a plain .md file with YAML front-matter in a folder you own. Point the vault at a OneDrive or Google Drive folder and it syncs for free. The name is a deliberate misspelling of note—it began as a typo and stuck.

Noet is a small native binary (Rust + Slint), not an Electron app. No bundled browser, no JavaScript runtime.

Features

• Plain files are the source of truth - Every note is a markdown file; delete the app and your notes are still just files
• The database is disposable - A SQLite index is rebuilt from the files purely to make link/todo/board/gantt queries fast; delete it anytime
• Typed todos - Kinds (do/followup/delegated/someday/reading), status cycling, priorities, recurrence, and start/due dates
• Many views - Today dashboard, Notes, Tasks, Kanban board, Gantt, Agenda, Calendar, People (1:1 prep), Labels, Inbox quick-capture, and more
• Organization - Hierarchical workstreams, labels, people, backlinks, faceted filtering, saved smart lists
• Markdown + Typst rendering, full-text search (SQLite FTS5), per-note export to Markdown or PDF
• UI-agnostic core - All logic lives in a GUI-free noet-core crate, so alternate frontends build on the same engine

Philosophy

Your vault is the system of record. Connectors link and import into it; they never own your data. Credentials live in the OS config directory, never inside the vault, so nothing sensitive syncs. This is infrastructure that gets out of the way—boring, durable, and entirely yours.