Show HN: Not_pad: local idea hub, Windows, single .exe, no install, zip

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3 months ago

I kept abandoning every note tool I tried — not because they were bad, but because they slowly became systems I had to maintain. At some point opening the app meant thinking about the app first. The idea could wait.

So I built something with no moving parts. One executable, no installer, no accounts, no sync, no cloud. Your files are plain .txt or .md stored wherever you want them.

It does more than a basic editor — Markdown preview, collapsible sections you can drag and reorder, a project system with archive/snapshot/trash, find and replace with a live match counter — but the point isn't the features. The point is it never becomes the thing you have to sort out before you can think. Windows only for now.

Free. Would appreciate any feedback on what's missing or broken.

Download: https://github.com/SylvaMoth/not_pad/releases/download/v0.98...

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