Notion-style blocks, Obsidian-style links, and a research agent that reads your own notes — on your Linux desktop, out of one JSON file you own. It never phones home: no account, no sync service, no signup wall.
x86_64 · free to use, pass along unmodified · omarchy pkg add slap-notes-bin
Every wiki link you drop becomes an edge. Nothing to tag, curate, or maintain — the structure is a side effect of writing the way you already write. The thing drifting below is that graph, built from this app's own feature notes.
[[wiki links]] stay intact in the Markdown you take with you.Optional, and off until you turn it on. It reads your link graph, answers questions about what you've written, and drafts notes back into the vault.
A slash menu and markdown shortcuts as you type. Everything below ships in 0.2.3 today — no preview tier, no paid unlock.
Text, headings, lists, to-dos, quotes, callouts, code, tables, images, video. Type / for the menu or just write markdown and let it convert.
Type [[ to link a note. Each one becomes an edge in the Cluster Brain, and stays a real link when you export.
Tag notes, search the vault, and jump around a long note by its heading outline. Find & replace when it's a chore, not a hunt.
One node per day, and templates for the notes you write the same way every time. Meeting, review, log — pick and go.
Reach for the top edge and it slides in; move away and the window is all page. The native menu bar hides too — press Alt if you want it back.
Deleted notes go to trash, not the void. The vault keeps a workspace.prev.json rollback copy whenever it shrinks.
Notes live on your device and mirror to a readable JSON file. Nothing is encoded in a format only this app can open, and leaving takes one click from the toolbar.
Where it lives
| Path | What |
|---|---|
| ~/.config/slap-notes/ | App data — your notes live here |
| workspace.json | Plain-JSON copy of the whole vault |
| workspace.prev.json | Rollback copy, written when the vault shrinks |
How you leave
| Export | Use it for |
|---|---|
| This note (.md) | One file |
| Vault (.zip) | One .md per note with links intact, plus attachments and an all-notes.html — unzip straight into Obsidian, or paste into OneNote |
| Print / PDF | Archiving and printouts |
| Backup (.json) | Everything including media, restorable in-app |
Slap Notes is in the official Omarchy package repo. Everywhere else on Linux x86_64 it's a portable tarball — extract it and run it, no installer, no daemon, no root. Free to use and to pass along unmodified — altered copies and resale aren't allowed; see the licence.
$ omarchy pkg add slap-notes-bin # updates arrive with omarchy update
$ tar --zstd -xf slap-notes-0.2.3-linux-x64.tar.zst $ ./slap-notes-0.2.3/app/slap-notes
$ sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS slap-notes-0.2.3-linux-x64.tar.zst: OK
sha256 56cb7606f41051ba10d088ed8e1ae85a17b20692f4b45c0c6a6e6cec6669a5e2
slap-notes-0.2.3-linux-x64.tar.zst
x86_64 · needs gtk3 nss alsa-lib libxss libnotify — which your desktop almost certainly already has. The Omarchy package pulls them in for you.