1 Introduction to the App
Notenik is a free and open source Mac app for collecting, preserving, organizing, referencing and/or sharing information of all kinds.
Notenik is a modern, native Mac app written in Swift, using AppKit. Its user interface follows all of the normal conventions that Mac users have come to expect.
Notenik stores all of its information in plain text files, and relies on Markdown for formatting the main body of each note.
Each Notenik file may also contain multiple other fields – in addition to the body – and these other, discrete fields can be used for sorting and filtering and for many other purposes. These other fields are sometimes referred to collectively as “metadata,” or as “front matter.”
Each Notenik file is called a “note,” even though one such file may contain relatively long chunks of written text.
A folder full of notes is referred to as a collection, and a user may have as many different collections as they would like, and store them wherever they would like. Each such collection may have its own definitions of the metadata fields to be tracked for each note in that collection.
Back to Top: The Notenik Knowledge Base