BlackNote is a minimalist note taking app built with Electron and Svelte 5. Its aim was to be a distraction free notepad, with very aethetically pleasing UI and great UX. In addition, an optional inline AI assistent allows me to burn through my unused OpenAI Tokens.
- Markdown-style formatting
- Inline AI assistant via
@aicommands - Paste images directly into notes
- Local SQLite storage
- Link handling in notes
- Custom storage location
- BlackNote website
- Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/
- electron-vite: https://electron-vite.org/
- Svelte 5: https://svelte.dev/
- Vite: https://vite.dev/
- better-sqlite3: https://github.com/WiseLibs/better-sqlite3
- OpenAI: https://platform.openai.com/
- Head to the releases page
- Download the latest release
- Run the exe and follow the prompts