Nodes

A minimal, beautiful and fast writing app for macOS.

Welcome to Nodes - a minimal, beautiful, and fast writing app for macOS. Built for those who care about both form and function, Nodes is a place to write, think, and create without distraction. Every design decision is intentional. Every element earns its place. Designed for macOS, it blends powerful technology with a quiet, focused experience.

Markdown rendered in the editor: headers, lists and a code block.

Write with clarity. Full markdown support lets you focus on your words while maintaining beautiful structure. Headers, lists, code blocks - all rendered elegantly without getting in your way.

A hand pointing with an orange pencil at the first Nodes graph on a monitor: a ring of dots, and a list beside it reading Node 1 to Node 57. — The graph, two days old.

See how your notes connect. Every note is a node and every link is an edge, so the library draws its own shape as you write: a ring of dots you can open, follow, and pull apart. Type double brackets around a title and the link exists the moment you finish it, in both directions - the note you linked to knows about the note you linked from. It is the fastest way back to something you cannot name, because what you remember is rarely the title. It is usually what the note sat next to.

Search across the library, with results narrowing as you type.

Find anything, instantly. Full-text search works from your very first note: start typing and every word you have written is already being matched. Searching by meaning is the other half - describe an idea in your own words and the note about it comes up even when you never wrote those words down, because the model on your Mac has read the library and knows what the notes are about. It can only find what it has already been through, so a library it has just met fills in while you work. Both kinds of search happen on your machine; nothing is sent away to be looked up.

Your thoughts stay with you. Everything runs on-device, private and secure. No cloud dependencies, no data harvesting. Just you and your words, exactly as it should be. A paid plan adds Import & Export for whole folders and the portable .nodes archive, and a daily snapshot to restore from when a morning goes wrong.