knotless.
The local scratch sheet for engineers. Sheets that auto-save, colour-tag, snippet-expand — and never touch the cloud unless you say so.
The notes app for people whose notes are tangled across 6 surfaces — sticky notes, Notion, a second Notion nobody uses, three terminal buffers, and a README nobody reads. One local sheet. Zero knots.
See it running.
knotless runs as a native desktop app on macOS and Windows. Screenshots follow your site theme — toggle light/dark to preview each mode.
Every row is a typed thing.
Not a "note", not a "document", not a "block" — a row with a key, a value, and a type. The type tells knotless what to do when you right-click, copy, or run it. Nothing else to learn.
Type in any cell.
knotless detects the content type — URL, command, token, path — and assigns it automatically. No tagging required.
Right-click to act.
Every cell type has a context menu: open URL, run command, copy path, reveal in Finder. One action per type.
Tag with a colour.
Click the tag column to assign one of 8 colours. Use it as a kanban, a priority system, or leave it blank.
Save is automatic.
Every keystroke persists. No Ctrl+S, no "unsaved changes" badge, no data loss on a crash.
Eight reasons it sticks._
Auto-save, typed cells, encrypted vault, and a command palette: the scratch-pad plumbing engineers keep rebuilding, shipped once in knotless.
Auto-save
auto-saveEvery keystroke persists to local SQLite. No save button, no lost work, no "are you sure?" dialogs.