Noto | Minimal Note-Taking App

Download • Motivation • Features • Screenshots • Translation & Localization • Contributions • App Icons • Architecture • Community • Support • License

Download

You can get Noto from one of the links below!

Motivation

There are a lot of note-taking apps available out-there, but only a few that do it well. Well, Noto is one of them. The goal of Noto is to be a minimalistic, free, and open-source note-taking application that meets the user's expectations, with privacy in mind. Noto is also part of my [portfolio](https://alialbaali.com) projects. It showcases my skills regarding software development.

Features

General

• Ad-Free.
• Private and secure.
• Small APK size (around 5 MB).
• Minimal, modern, and simplistic design.
• Light/Dark/Black/System themes.
• Support for devices with API 21 (Lollipop) and up.
• All data is stored locally on the device.
• Language support for English, Turkish, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, Czech, German, Italian, Spanish, and French, Lithuanian, SimplifiedChinese, and Portuguese.
• Material You (Material 3) support.
• Navigating to the top when clicking on the top app bar.

Folders

• Colorful folders.
• Folders archive.
• Folders vault.
• Pinned folders.
• Sorting folders alphabetically, by creation date, or manually.
• Folders widget.

Notes

• Multi sequential selection for notes.
• Option to merge selected notes.
• Notes archive.
• List and grid layouts.
• Auto save.
• Undo/Redo with history view.
• Undo/Redo swiping gestures.
• Reminders.
• Copy/Move/Duplicate note options.
• Word-count.
• Pinned notes.
• Sorting alphabetically, by access date, by creation date, or manually.
• Grouping notes by label, by access date, or by creation date.
• Notes widget.
• All notes view with search functionality.
• Recently accessed notes view with search functionality.
• Saving selected text by using Quick note option. Default folder is General, can be overridden in Settings.
• Find in Note, and automatic scrolling to the searched text in notes.

Labels

• Filtering notes using labels unique to each folder.
• Inclusive/Exclusive/Strict label filtering.

Reading Mode

• Full-Screen mode option.
• Do Not Disturb mode option.
• Keep screen on option.
• Quick edit (Jumping to the scrolled text).
• Custom screen brightness level option.
• Paging notes support, like reading a book.
• Support for paging only selected/filtered notes.
• Option to open notes in Reading Mode by default.

Settings

• Export/Import all app data.
• Custom app icons.
• Remembering folders and notes scrolling position.

Screenshots

Translation & Localization

If you would like to translate the app, please contact me via email. Translations are done through Crowdin.

Special thanks to:

• Nuray Sabri, and Alparslan Şakçi for the Turkish localization.
• Faus AM for the Spanish localization.
• Kernoeb, and Geoffrey Crofte for the French localization.
• Matteo Lombardi, and SimoneG for the Italian localization.
• Viktor Novák for the Czech localization.
• Ernestas Karalius for the Lithuanian localization.
• 李華 for the Simplified Chinese localization.
• Uli N for the German localization.
• Angel C.
• Alexthegib for the Portuguese localization.
• <x0D> Nikita Bragin for the Russian localization.

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome, and highly appreciated! If you would like to contribute, feel free to file an issue, create a PR, or star the project.

Special thanks to everyone who has helped and contributed in the development.

App Icons

App icons use Collection of Gradients published by Geoffrey Crofte licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Architecture

The app is built with the Kotlin language.

The app uses Clean Architecture with MVVM design pattern, and it's divided into 3 main layers.

Domain

Contains model, repository and data sources interfaces.

Data

Contains database and repository and DAO implementations.

Presentation (the rest of the app)

Contains all the UI logic.

Community

Feel free to join the community to stay up to date with the latest news.

Support

I'm a solo developer, and Noto was one of my first projects when I started learning Software Development almost 4 years ago, and it has come a long way since then. I also have worked on various side projects, but Noto remained to this day my main focus.

So, if you'd like to see Noto remains maintained with new features, improvements, and bug fixes, I would really appreciate any support coming from my amazing community 🤗

Thank you ❤️

License

Noto is distributed under the terms of the Apache License (Version 2.0). See License for details.