You are a multitasker. So are your tools.
Your Mac is your vault, and you are not limited to a single folder: add any folder to a space. A blog, a repository, a personal knowledge base, the folder your agents read. Tabs and splits let you work on more than one thing at a time. Switch spaces and the whole desk comes with you, and it's still there tomorrow.
Less is more.
Goodbye, distractions. Inkstone is WYSIWYG all the way: Markdown becomes the page as you type, and nothing reflows when you click a heading. No preview pane, no markers, no jump. Your flow state stays where it is.
Everything Markdown. Nothing in the way. At Mac speed.
No Electron. Everything local. Every Markdown feature you write with, rendered as you type.
Native, not Electron
Native SwiftUI, with ProseMirror's power inside. Quick with ten thousand files and two-hundred-thousand-word documents.
All of Markdown
Tables with drag handles, task lists, footnotes, bold and italic and the rest. Inline code, highlighted code blocks, and math, rendered in place and kept as plain text.
Wikilinks across folders
Type two brackets and pick any file in the space, whichever folder it lives in: a journal entry can point at a blog draft. Aliases, headings and ⌘-click to follow, compatible with the vault you already have.
Focus and typewriter
Write like nothing else is open. Focus Mode fades the page down to the paragraph under your hands, and Typewriter Mode keeps that paragraph at eye level as you type. Your eyes stay still. The words come.
File versions
Every save keeps a version. Roll back to the last one, or step through them all with a diff of what changed. Nothing to set up; old versions clear themselves on your schedule.
Watches the folder
Point a space at the folder your coding agents write to. New files, moves and edits show up as they happen; if a file changes under an open tab, Inkstone reloads or asks, your call.
Questions, answered.
Not here? Ask on the forum, or email support@inkstone.md.
Where do my notes live?
In the folder you chose, as plain .md files — that is the whole storage model. No database, no proprietary wrapper, no sidecar files, and nothing left behind when you quit. A file you don’t edit is never touched; one you do edit is written back as standard Markdown, so some formatting is normalised on save. Syncing stays whatever you already use — iCloud Drive, Dropbox, git.
Which Markdown does it handle?
All of what you actually write with. Tables with drag handles, task lists, footnotes, math, fenced code with highlighting, inline code, bold, italic, strikethrough, quotes and rules — each one rendered in place as you type and saved as plain text.
Can I open more than one folder?
As many as you like. One space holds a blog, a repository and a personal knowledge base at once, with tabs and splits across all of them, and a wikilink in one folder can point at a file in another. Switch spaces and the whole desk comes with you.
Will it open my Obsidian vault?
Yes, and nothing is imported. Add the vault folder to a space and the notes are simply there: the same files in the same folders, opened in place rather than copied into a library of the app’s own. Obsidian can keep opening that folder too. Wikilinks, aliases and heading links all work, and ⌘-click follows them.
Does anything leave my Mac?
Nothing you write. Inkstone does not upload your documents, and collects no analytics, usage data or crash reports. It reaches the network for two things only: checking for updates, which you can switch off, and validating a licence key if you enter one. The privacy note spells out the rest.
Will it keep up with my coding agents?
Point a space at the folder they write to and watch it happen. New files, moves and edits appear as they land. If a file changes underneath a tab you have open, Inkstone either reloads it or asks first — your call, in Settings.
$29.99. Once. Yours.
One payment, every update included, no subscription and no account. Not sure yet? The trial is the whole app for 14 days.
macOS 14 or later