Notes

In this section

• Notes at a glance

  Notes is the third tab, beside Snippets and Clips: a Markdown editor over a folder you choose, with a list, tabs and search. Press 3 .

• More than one vault

  Above your folder list there is a dropdown showing the vault you are in. Open it to switch to another, rename one, or add a folder you have not used yet. It is free, with no cap.

• Using a folder you already have

  Point TypeFire at a folder you already write in, an Obsidian vault included, and your notes stay exactly where and how they are.

• Notes anywhere

  Press ⌘ ⌃ 3 from any application to search your notes, open one, or paste it into what you're writing.

• Quick capture and daily notes

  ⌘ ⌃ ⇧ N opens the overlay on the Notes tab with an empty composer. Type as much as you like, then press Save .

• The note list and the editor

  The middle column is the note list. Each row is a title, a line of the note, its collection and when it was last changed. Word count is available as a sort and in the editor's own footer, rather than on every row. How much of the body you see is up to you: Settings → Notes → Preview lines offers none, one or two. One is the default.

• Editor settings

  Five switches in Settings → Notes change how the editor behaves. Each one applies straight away, in the note pane and in any Markdown file you have open.

• Tabs

  Notes open in tabs above the editor, the way a code editor does it, and Markdown files from anywhere on your Mac share the same bar.

• Wikilinks and backlinks

  Type [[ in a note and start typing a title. Pick one and the link is inserted.

• AI on a note

  The AI button in the editor toolbar can summarize, outline, continue, rewrite, or extract the tasks from a note. It runs on whichever provider you have set up in Settings → AI , including Apple Intelligence, which runs on-device with no network and no per-use cost.

• Notes and snippets, both ways

  A note to a snippet : the ⚡ button in the note editor. The note stays where it is; a copy becomes a snippet, and you give it an abbreviation afterwards like any other.

• Markdown files outside the vault

  TypeFire is a capable lightweight Markdown editor for any .md or .txt file on your Mac. A plain text file is markdown, it just has no formatting in it, so .txt files in your vault are listed, searched and edited like any other note. Nothing is converted and nothing is rewritten.

• Quick Look preview

  Select any .md file in Finder and press Space . Instead of raw text with visible # and ** , you get the document rendered: headings, lists, tables, code blocks, links, with the same styling as TypeFire's own preview.

• Importing notes

  Notes → + New → Import notes brings notes in from somewhere else. Three sources, one dialog: