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Notes that livenext to the work.

Jot a thought in the corner, pin it to the panel it is about, and find it later from any workspace. Every note is a markdown file in a folder you choose, so it outlives every panel that shows it.

Notes on the canvas,pinned to what they are about.

Drop a sticky note next to the work and anchor it to a panel: a dashed line ties them, and the note reads as a comment on that panel. The text lives in your vault, so the same note open in the notebook changes as you type.

  • Five paper colors, and Title, Heading, Body and Monospaced in the Aa menu.
  • Unanchor sets the note loose again.
  • Closing a sticky note closes a view, never the note.
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Your notes are filesin a folder you choose.

Every note is a markdown file in one folder, the vault, reachable from any workspace. Move it anywhere, even into an Obsidian vault, and open the same files from both apps.

  • Type to filter every note in the vault.
  • One-line captures wait under Captures to be titled or grown.
  • A move is all or nothing, and never overwrites a file.
The Notes page in Project tools: a search box, one capture, two pages with previews, and the deska-notes folder with Move notesThe Notes page in Project tools: a search box, one capture, two pages with previews, and the deska-notes folder with Move notes

A note, a timer and music,one click from anywhere.

The Extras button in the corner of the canvas opens the note you touched last, the focus timer and the music player, each with its main control at hand. It stays put through every zoom, pan and workspace switch.

  • Write opens the quick note as a small paper card.
  • While a focus session runs, the closed button shows the countdown.
  • Open as panel when the thing itself is the work.
The Extras panel above its button: Release checklist edited just now, Focus ready for 25 minutes, and a lofi radio not playingThe Extras panel above its button: Release checklist edited just now, Focus ready for 25 minutes, and a lofi radio not playing

One note, wherever you need it

The text lives once, in the vault; every place shows the same note.

Notes page
Browse and search the whole vault in the notebook, Cmd/Ctrl + J.
Sticky note
On the canvas, in one of five colors, anchored to a panel if you like.
Quick note
In the Extras panel, as a small paper card with a full editor.
Todo
Markdown checkboxes in the vault, so they outlive the workspace.

Notes that outlive every panel.

A note is a file in your vault, so closing a panel, a workspace or Deska itself never takes it along. Move the vault and every note goes with it, at once.

  • Closing never deletes

    A note belongs to the vault, not to the panel showing it. Closing the panel closes a view; deleting a note is its own act.

  • Your folder, your files

    Notes are plain markdown files. Move them to any folder, even an Obsidian vault, and open the same files from both apps.

  • Search first

    The Notes page filters every note as you type, so a note is found by what it says, not by where you wrote it.

Worth knowing

Notebook
Cmd/Ctrl + J
A note is
A markdown file in your vault
Vault folder
Deska’s data folder, or any folder you choose
Sticky colors
Yellow, pink, green, blue and lavender
Formats
Title, Heading, Body and Monospaced
Attach to a window
Drag to its top-right corner, one note per window
Comment on a panel
Right-click a sticky note, Anchor to
Quick note
The Extras button, bottom left of the canvas
Focus timer
25 minutes of work, 5 of break

About notes

One canvas for everything you build.Free to start.

The complete workspace on one computer, with 10 dictation minutes a month.

Mac

Download for Mac
Apple Silicon and Intel

Linux

Download for Linux
AppImage and Debian

Windows

Download for Windows
Windows 11 and 10, x64, ZIP