Simple Notes Sync

Clean, offline-first notes with intelligent sync - simplicity meets smart synchronization.

📱 Screenshots

✨ Highlights

• 📝 Offline-first - Works without internet
• 📁 Folders - Organize notes into folders, with optional local-only folders that never sync
• 📌 Pinned notes - Keep important notes at the top
• 🗑️ Trash - Deleted notes move to a recycle bin with configurable retention (0–90 days)
• 🗄️ Archive - Move notes out of the way without deleting them, restore anytime
• ✅ Checklists - Tap-to-check, drag & drop, convert text ↔ checklist
• ✍️ Live Markdown - Live highlighting in the editor and rendered list/grid previews
• 📋 Rich clipboard paste - HTML paste from Telegram, Word, Google Docs & browsers converts to Markdown
• 🎨 Note colors - Color-code notes, then filter and sort by color
• 📥 Google Keep import - Bring your notes over from a Keep export
• 📊 Flexible views - List or grid layout, 1–5 column scaling, adjustable font size, collapsible & reorderable sections
• 🧩 Widgets - Single-note, scrollable note-list, and quick-new-note home screen widgets
• 🔄 Configurable sync triggers - onSave, onResume, WiFi-connect, periodic (15/30/60 min), boot
• ⚡ Parallel sync - Uploads/downloads up to 5 notes simultaneously
• 🔒 Self-hosted - Your data stays with you (WebDAV, encrypted credentials)
• 🔐 App lock - Optional biometric/PIN unlock with screenshot protection
• 💾 Local backup - Export/Import as JSON file
• 🖥️ Desktop integration - Markdown export for Obsidian, VS Code, Typora
• 💻 Desktop editor (beta) - Edit your notes on Windows & Linux with Simple Notes Desktop, the WebDAV-synced companion app
• 📤 Share & export - Receive shared text, share as text or PDF, export to calendar
• ↩️ Undo/Redo - Full undo/redo history in the note editor
• 🌍 Multilingual - 11 languages with in-app language selector
• 🎨 Material Design 3 - 7 color schemes incl. AMOLED & Dynamic Color, animated theme transitions

➡️ Complete feature list: FEATURES.md

🚀 Quick Start

1. Server Setup (5 minutes)

git clone https://github.com/inventory69/simple-notes-sync.git
cd simple-notes-sync/server
cp .env.example .env
# Set password in .env
docker compose up -d

➡️ Details: Server Setup Guide

2. App Installation (2 minutes)

1. Download APK
2. Install & open
3. ⚙️ Settings → Configure server:
   • URL: http://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8080/ (base URL only!)
   • User: noteuser
   • Password: (from .env)
   • WiFi: (your network name)
4. Test connection → Enable auto-sync
5. Done! 🎉

➡️ Detailed guide: QUICKSTART.md

📚 Documentation

🛠️ Development

cd android
./gradlew assembleStandardRelease

➡️ Build guide: DOCS.md

💡 Feature Requests & Ideas

Have an idea for a new feature or improvement? We'd love to hear it!

➡️ How to suggest features:

1. Check existing discussions to see if someone already suggested it
2. If not, start a new discussion in the "Feature Requests / Ideas" category
3. Upvote (👍) features you'd like to see

Features with enough community support will be considered for implementation. Please keep in mind that this app is designed to stay simple and user-friendly.

🌍 Translations

Translation hosting generously provided by Weblate - thank you for sponsoring open-source projects! 🙏

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md

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📄 License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 - see LICENSE