Flow

Flow is a calm, full-screen writing stream that strips everything away but your words. It's for markdown notes, and it's built for one thing - getting the next sentence down.

How it feels

Flow takes over the whole screen. The sidebar, the toolbar, every bit of chrome steps aside, and your text appears larger than it does in the editor.

The caret stays at the end of what you're writing - there are no arrows, no clicking back to an earlier spot, no select-all, and no paste. Flow is for putting words down, not going back to edit them.

The stream stays on a single line. As you write, what you've already typed slides off to the left and fades out at the edge, so only your most recent words stay in view, and a line break shows as a small dot rather than wrapping. The mouse pointer tucks itself away while you type and returns the moment you move it.

Even an empty note doesn't leave you staring at a blank stage. The same quote that greets you in an empty editor appears in gray as the stream's tail - a ghost standing in for your words. It dissolves under your first keystroke as your own text takes over, and returns if you delete everything back to empty. The quote is only ever on screen; it never becomes part of your note.

Getting in and out

Open Flow from the Flow chip in the sidebar, or from View ▸ Flow. It's available only while you're in a markdown note. To leave, press Esc - the words lift away and the window settles back into the editor where you started.

Your words are safe

There's nothing to save and nothing to merge back. Flow writes into the same note file the whole time you're in it, so what you put down is simply your note - already there in the editor when you return.