📝 Novit

A floating, always-on-top Markdown scratchpad.

Ctrl+Shift+N → write → Esc → done. Every keystroke autosaved to a plain .md file. That's it.

🌐 Website: novit-site.vercel.app

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✨ What it does

A tiny frameless window that lives on top of everything. Jot down a thought, hit the hotkey again, and it disappears — but nothing is lost. Every note is a real Markdown file on your disk, waiting for you.

🎯 Features

🪟 Floating window	Frameless & always-on-top — pin it or let it float
⌨️ Global hotkey	Ctrl+Shift+N summons the window from anywhere
✍️ WYSIWYG editor	Formatting toolbar, Markdown stays readable underneath
👀 Live preview	GFM rendering as you type, with clickable task checkboxes that write back to the note
💾 Autosave	Debounced saving — your work is never lost
📂 Notes sidebar	Create, rename, delete & search notes
🧭 Command palette	Ctrl+K — switch notes, run actions, no mouse needed
🎨 4 themes	Olive, purple, cyan & crimson — persisted across restarts
🖥️ Tray icon	Show / hide, new note & quit from the system tray

⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+N	Show / hide the window (global)
Ctrl+N	New note
Ctrl+K	Open command palette
Esc	Close palette

🚀 Getting started

# install dependencies
npm install

# development (hot reload)
npm run dev

# lint
npm run lint

📦 Building

# Windows — installer + portable build
npm run build:win

# unpacked portable build only
npm run build:unpack

Output lands in dist/:

• novit-<version>-setup.exe — installer
• win-unpacked/novit.exe — portable, no install needed

🛠️ Tech stack

🧱 Electron	Desktop runtime
⚡ electron-vite	Fast dev server & build tooling
📖 marked	Markdown → HTML rendering
🔄 turndown	WYSIWYG HTML → Markdown conversion

📁 Where are my notes?

Notes are plain Markdown files in your OS user-data folder — back them up, sync them, edit them with any tool:

OS	Path
Windows	%APPDATA%/novit/notes
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/novit/notes
Linux	~/.config/novit/notes

📄 License

MIT © Ali Sher