Is it possible to view files in the root of the vault?
Also, is it possible to show non .md files?
My use case for the second question is that I have .pdf and .xml that acompanies my notes. Having HelixEditor showing them as well (or opening them in system default editor) would be nice.
Not ideal since you can't easily sort by folder hierarchy but you can see your root files in All Notes.
Mac user her. I've been using Markflowy after MacDown stopped development. I will give this a shot.
Thank you for your work.
Hi OP. I am really enjoying using HelixNotes.
I love the way it looks and all the features. I was able to use the same folder I use MarkFlowy and Marknote.
My only critique is the Ctrl key in Windows and Linux menu shortcuts is usually changed to Cmd for Mac. It really isn't a big deal but I think a lot of Mac users will notice this instantly. I tried creating an note with Cmd + N since is the default for all other Mac apps. I saw the Shortcuts in the Info section and I was hoping you could customize the Keyboard Shortcuts, but you can't.
It isn't a big deal with me. So far I am enjoying this more than MarkFlowy and Marknote. If you don't change for whatever reason, I understand and I will continue to use your HelixNotes.
Again thank you for your work.
Me again. Last time tonight, I promise.
My favorite features so far, making the edit toolbar disappear in source mode and Focus mode. Quick access is also really useful.
One more thing I don't like, it was adding a header to my edited notes.
Example:
***
id: "9242199e-992b-4c58-9b4f-85a6949d424d"
title: "Books"
tags: []
pinned: false
created: 2026-02-15T04:32:13.600656+00:00
modified: 2026-02-15T04:32:17.240423+00:00
***
This doesn't look great in MacOS preview. This might be one of those things that it was simplest to just add this directly to the file rather than creating some kind of database or a bunch of dot files. Again, not a deal breaker for me. Would adding it to the bottom be possible instead?
Thank you.
Does this have multi vault support?
Not yet, but it's a straightforward feature to add. Open an issue on Codeberg and I'll get it on the roadmap.
Very nice. The screenshots look promising!
MacDown is pretty solid, but I've been looking at alternatives. Unfortunately, while MarkText may be feature-rich, latency is untenable. I think that one's an Electron app.
Isn't this basically just an Obsidian replacement then? I haven't tried it, but reading the info in Codeberg does point to that.
Plugin support?
Not at this stage. It's something I'm considering but the priority is getting the core experience right first.
Totally understandable at this stage. As soon as it appears on the roadmap I'm in. Need my templater :)
What is about obsidian?
All I know is tauri is the name given to Earth by the goa'uld. When did this came up? Everytime I blink another language appears
Is the Markdown editor WYSIWYG, like Typora ?
You have both - the WYSIWYG editor and a way to switch to the Markdown editor.
I specifically asked whether the Markdown editor is WYSIWYG, like Typora, which isn't the same thing as MS Word WYSIWYG.
Not like Typora, no. HelixNotes has a WYSIWYG editor and a source mode toggle, two separate views. Not inline markdown rendering.
Never worked with any note taking apps except for Vim with customized snippets and rudamentary helper scripts.
While such an app seems very appealing, I haven't seen any of them featuring the useful stuff, such as pluggable editor (in my case Vim or NeoVim), template support (day journal, meeting, README etc...), rendered fields (e.g.: today, author, or arbitrary values), support for pandoc rendering, doc metadata management (tags, keywords, related docs, links) or markers in text eg. @TODO etc... (idea being to aut. create lists of paragraps with such markers)
What's the point of a note taking app that provides help with editing single docs and maybe with rendering to HTML, but doesn't help organizing and remembering stuff?
I need my notes with me. I use SiYuan and I’m more than happy
Since this looks to be similar to Obsidian, why not name it something else like it, but without the Obsidian name?
I'll need to do some numerology on that....
EDIT: On the note of Obsidian, my producer and I use it all the time, however, there is another one that someone in a community I'm in looked at, that being Trilium Next. Judging by the looks, it's got similarities to Trilium, which is actually pretty nice.
The name comes from the double helix. Structured but flexible, like how notes should be. Trilium is a solid project, but it stores notes in an SQLite database and runs on Electron. HelixNotes keeps everything as plain .md files and uses Tauri, so much lighter on resources.
Is Tauri like Electron, or SQLite, but faster and FOSS? Are either of those what I'm getting at?
Tauri is an alternative to Electron. Both are frameworks for building desktop apps with web technologies, but Electron bundles a full Chromium browser (which is why Electron apps use so much RAM). Tauri uses your OS's native webview instead, much smaller, much lighter. Both are open source. The difference is resource usage.
Since my producer and I are using the Odin Project to potentially learn full-stack JS after the foundations course completion on our end (Rails is another option for full-stack development), we could certainly look into Tauri (even if we're not done with that yet). I wonder, however, why many apps don't use Tauri, and instead, Electron.
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