Notabena

About

Notabena is the free and open source note-taking app, written in pure Rust.

Features

These are our current planned features. (Most features under CLI are also featured in the GUI when it's released, for the two are planned to be fully compatible)

• CLI
• Make notes
• Edit notes
• [x] Delete notes
  • Delete multiple notes at once
• Local SQL database
• Encrypted notes
• Simple Markdown support
• Compatibility with the GUI
• GUI
• Custom themes
• Private vault: only accessible with PIN
• Folders

Help us!

You can help us in different ways.

🐛 ・ Be a Bughunter: Search for bugs and file an issue if the output isn't as expected or if the program crashes.

🖥️ ・ Suggest features: File an issue (use the Suggest features issue template) and the devs will look into it.

🧹 ・ Fix issues: Are you a Rust developer and interested in the project: try to fix the issues and open a pull request! (Especially the ones tagged with good first issue)

Contributing guidelines for these three roles coming soon!

Installation

To install Notabena on Windows, simply run the file!

When running Notabena on Linux or macOS, you might encounter an error like this when running the file:

bash: /home/Your-Username/Downloads/Your-Notabena-Installation: Permission denied

To fix this issue, run the following command in your terminal:

chmod u+x /home/Your-Username/Downloads/Your-Notabena-Installation (filling in the blanks)

The program should now run smoothly!

These are currently the only known errors during the installation of Notabena.
If these solutions don't work or another error occurs, please open an issue so this section can be updated!