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Iotas

Simple note taking Source

Description

Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking via its mobile-first design.

Featuring

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  • Optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes
  • Offline note editing, syncing when back online
  • Category editing and filtering
  • Favorites
  • Spell checking
  • Search within the collection or individual notes
  • Focus mode and an option to hide the editor header bar
  • In preview: export to PDF, ODT and HTML
  • A convergent design, seeing Iotas as at home on desktop as mobile
  • Search from GNOME Shell
  • Note backup and restoration (from CLI, for using without sync)
  • The ability to change font size and toggle monospace style

Writing in markdown is supported but optional, providing

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  • Formatting via toolbar and shortcuts
  • Syntax highlighting with themes
  • A formatted view
  • The ability to check off task lists from the formatted view

Slightly more technical details, for those into that type of thing

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  • Nextcloud Notes sync is via the REST API, not WebDAV, which makes it snappy
  • There's basic sync conflict detection
  • Notes are constantly saved
  • Large note collections are partially loaded to quicken startup
  • Notes are stored in SQLite, providing for fast search (FTS) without reinventing the wheel. Plain files can be retrieved by making a backup (CLI).

Source

Project links: Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2022-03-30.

The last known commit happened on 2024-12-01.

Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2024-12-01

Features

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.World.Iotas.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/iotas/-/raw/main/build-aux/flatpak/org.gnome.World.Iotas.Devel.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

Find similar apps

By Service: Nextcloud Notes

By Category: note taking

By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: TextEditor TextTools Utility

Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: Python

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/iotas/-/raw/main/data/org.gnome.World.Iotas.metainfo.xml.in.in