Tour

A ten-minute guided tour of everything Shady Notes can do.

A quick pass over the whole app. Each section links to the page with the detail.

The Shady Notes shade open over a desktop, showing the sidebar file tree on the left and a rendered Markdown note on the right.

1. The shade

Notes live above the top of the screen. Scroll down near the top edge, and the shade rolls into view; scroll up and it goes away. It floats above your other windows rather than joining them, so it never becomes another thing to find.

→ The shade

Everything the shade can do is reachable from here, and the … menu groups the lot.

→ Menus

Your folders and notes, a search field, starred notes, themes and plugins — all in tabs down the side. Toggle it with ⌥⌘S.

→ The sidebar

4. Writing

The editor renders Markdown as you type. Syntax markers hide themselves until your cursor enters the paragraph they belong to, so a heading looks like a heading rather than ## like this.

A note rendered live, with headings, bold text, a table and checkboxes styled in the editor.

Press ⌃E to see the raw Markdown at any time.

→ The editor · Markdown reference

5. Tasks

A checklist with completed and outstanding tasks, some in a bulleted list and one standalone.

⌘T toggles a checkbox, adds one to a list item, or drops a standalone one on a blank line, depending on where the cursor is.

→ Checkboxes

6. Getting around

Notes open in tabs. Several root folders can be open at once, grouped into workspaces — colour-coded contexts with their own starred notes and home page.