Based on the idea behind Notational Velocity, Notes is designed to focus on organizing plain text notes that are automatically saved, no need to remember filenames or locations. Just write your notes. Open Notes again and you'll see all your notes right there, where you left them.

Why

Notes was born from necessity. I use Notational Velocity at home on my Mac to manage my ideas, notes and pretty much everything that can be written down as plain text. I also use Simplenote to do exactly the same on my iPhone.
Then, a few months ago, Notational Velocity began supporting synchronization with Simplenote and my life was simplified.
However, at work I am still trapped in the corporate world of Windows and there wasn’t a good solution similar to Notational Velocity, so I wrote my own. Then I added Simplenote support.

A simple application

There aren’t many features, Notes is simple software. The few there are include:

• Plain text database
• On the fly note saving, no need to remember filenames or locations
• A portable app with no external DLLs or other installation hell. Copy the directory to your flash drive and take it with you
• Database export function that will save each note as a single plain text file for archiving
• A UI that is simple by default (if you press F9 you can even hide the toolbar) and keyboard driven. You can leave your mouse home.

Enjoy. Notes is free.

Simplenote synchronization

Notes can sync with Simplenote, so you can truly take your notes everywhere.
Download Notes

Download Notes 2 Beta with Simplenote support
Version 2 is still beta. Check regularly for newer versions. Version 2 of the database is different so don't copy your old data base.