Iotas 2026.9

Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking via its mobile-first design.

Featuring

• Optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes

• Offline note editing, syncing when back online

• Category editing and filtering

• Favorites

• Spell checking

• Search within the collection or individual notes

• Focus mode and optional hiding of the editor header and formatting bars

• In preview: export to PDF, ODT and HTML

• A convergent design, seeing Iotas as at home on desktop as mobile

• Search from GNOME Shell

• Note backup and restoration (from CLI, for using without sync)

• The ability to change font size and toggle monospace style

Writing in markdown is supported but optional, providing

• Formatting via toolbar and shortcuts

• Syntax highlighting with themes

• Inserting images

• A formatted view

• The ability to check off task lists from the formatted view

Slightly more technical details, for those into that type of thing

• Nextcloud Notes sync is via the REST API, not WebDAV, which makes it snappy

• There's basic sync conflict detection

• Notes are constantly saved

• Large note collections are partially loaded to quicken startup

• Notes are stored in SQLite, providing for fast search (FTS) without reinventing the wheel. Plain files can be retrieved by making a backup (CLI).

License: GPL-3.0-or-later