Plain files · your storage · every device
Your notes shouldn’t need an escape plan.
Skysa Notes keeps every note as a plain Markdown file in your own Google Drive or Dropbox. Write on any device, sync everywhere, and leave whenever you like. The files were always yours.
Sync is $1 a month or $10 a year after the trial. No account to create, no card to start.
- ▾ Work/
- Q4 planning.md
- 1:1 with Sam.md
- Launch checklist.md
- ▾ Home/
- Recipes to try.md
- Garden plan.md
- ▸ Reading/
- # Recipes to try- Miso butter noodles- Charred leeks, romescoOpen it in any editor. It’s just text.
Every notes app is easy to move into.
Your notes live in their format
Years of writing sit in a database only that app can read.
Leaving is an export, if you’re lucky
Odd file types, broken formatting, notebooks flattened into one pile.
Then you rebuild it all by hand
And promise yourself the next app will be the last one.
Leaving one now? Our guides get your notes out of Evernote, Notion, Apple Notes, OneNote, Google Keep and more, as Markdown files, with free tools.
Why this exists
“I kept trying notes platforms with syncing, and every time, getting off one was difficult or nearly impossible. I’d end up rebuilding all my notes. I wanted one source of truth, on every device, where I own the files.”
How it works
Three steps, and the last one is optional.
Write, right away
Open the app and start. Notes stay on your device and work offline. Install it to your home screen or dock. Free, no sign-up.
Connect your storage
Subscribe, and we email you a connect code. Type it in the app and pick Google Drive or Dropbox. Your notes move into a folder there.
Every device, same files
Phone, laptop, tablet: they all sync with the same folder. Change a note anywhere and it syncs, even after a day offline.
About the connect code. Connecting storage is the paid step, and the code is how the app knows you subscribed. Ask for one with your subscription’s email on the connect page, and type it into the app once on each device you use. That device can then connect as many storage accounts as you like, now or later, with no more codes. A code is good for 5 minutes; asking again is free.
What you get
Everything a notes app should do, in files you keep.
Rich text that is really Markdown
Headings, lists, task lists, quotes, tables and code, in an editor that saves a plain Markdown file.
Pictures and files beside notes
Paste, drop or pick a picture or a file. It is kept in the note’s folder, and the note links to it.
Notebooks that are folders
Nest notebooks as deep as you like, drag notes between them, pin what matters. Each is a folder in your storage.
Search everything at once
One field searches every notebook and every connected account as you type.
Made for your phone
Install it from the browser, format with one tap, share anything to it. The same files as your laptop.
A clipboard your devices share
Copy on your phone, paste on your laptop: text, pictures and files, within seconds, through your own storage.
Sync through your own Google Drive or Dropbox
Your notes live in one folder in your own storage account, as plain files, and every device syncs with it.
Bring in what you already have
Import a folder of Markdown files, or a zip, and get notebooks from its folders with pictures and dates intact.
Take everything out, any time
Download every note and its files as a zip, or just open the folder in your storage. There is no export step because there is no lock.
Phone, laptop, tablet
The same files, in your pocket.
- Install it from the browser. Add to Home Screen on an iPhone, Install on Android. It opens offline, with its own icon, and no app store in between.
- Format with one tap. On a small screen the storage, notebook and note become a path across the top, and the formatting bar stays where your thumb is.
- One clipboard for every device. Paste text, a picture or a file on your phone and it is on your laptop within seconds, through your own storage. Share anything to the app from Android and it lands there too.
- Changes arrive in seconds. Type on one device and the others update a moment later, not at their next check.
What we never see
Your notes never touch our servers.
Notes travel straight from your browser to your own storage. Our server’s whole job is to let your devices reach your storage, and to know whether you’ve paid.
We keep
- An encrypted key to your storage
- Which storage accounts you connected, and their email addresses
- Your subscription’s email, to send codes and bills
We never have
- A single word of your notes
- A password: there’s no account
- A copy we could lose or sell
The app is open source (AGPL-3.0), so you don’t have to take our word for it. Read the code.
Free to write. Pay to sync. Or run your own.
A subscription pays for us to run the sync service.
On this device
Free
- The whole app, offline
- Notebooks, search, rich text and Markdown
- Download every note as Markdown, any time
Sync
$1 / monthor $10 / year
- Your notes in your Google Drive or Dropbox
- Every device, kept in step
- Connect as many storage accounts as you like
The first 30 days are free, and no card is needed until they end.
Try it free for 30 daysRather run it yourself? Pull down the public repo and host every part of it on your own Cloudflare account, free under AGPL-3.0. Read the self-hosting guide
Questions
- What happens to my notes if I stop paying?
- They stay exactly where they are: in your storage, as Markdown files, and on your devices. Sync stops. Nothing is deleted, and nothing needs exporting.
- What does it cost?
- Writing on one device is free. Sync is $1 a month or $10 a year, and one subscription covers every device and every storage account you connect.
- I’m using it free. Is anything at risk?
- A free library lives only in that one browser on that one device. Install the app to your home screen or dock, because a browser may clear a website’s storage (Safari does after a week without a visit) but keeps an installed app’s. And download your notes as Markdown from time to time. Connecting storage takes care of both.
- Can I edit the files with other apps?
- Yes. Each note is an ordinary .md file and each notebook an ordinary folder, readable by any Markdown editor, and changes made there sync back. One exception: on Google Drive the app can see only the files it made itself, so edit notes anywhere but add new ones in the app, or with Import.
- Can I bring the notes I already have?
- Yes. The app imports a folder of Markdown files, or any files you pick, and keeps their pictures beside them. If your notes are in another app, our guides show how to get them out as Markdown first.
- Why is there no account?
- Your storage account is your identity. The first time you connect from a device, we email a short code to your subscription’s address, and that’s all the proof we need.
- Can I host it myself?
- Yes. The whole thing, app and server, is open source and built to run on your own Cloudflare account. The self-hosting guide walks through it.
- Does it work offline?
- Completely. Everything you write is saved on the device first and syncs when you’re back online.