Transparency over legalese.
Traditional apps treat your data as an asset for their balance sheets. We treat your thoughts as art. At note.md, privacy is not a feature, it is the architecture.
The core philosophy of note.md is local-first. When you write a note or import a PDF, it stays on your hard drive. For personal use we do not have a cloud because we do not want your data. We believe it's yours.
By keeping everything on your physical hardware, you eliminate the risks associated with server breaches, company acquisitions, or centralized outages. You own the bytes.
The Reading Studio allows you to annotate PDFs and research papers. Unlike other platforms that index your reading habits to build interest profiles, note.md operates entirely offline.
Your BibTeX libraries and research annotations are stored locally. We do not track what you read, how long you spend on a page, or which citations you click inside the app.
The note.md app does not track your in-app behavior. The public landing page at the root of this website uses privacy-friendly Vercel Web Analytics to measure anonymous page visits and referrers so we can understand whether the site is being used.
We do not use advertising trackers, build personal profiles, or inspect the contents of your notes, PDFs, citations, or research. The privacy and terms pages are not used to measure product behavior inside the app.
Anonymous, aggregate visits to the landing page. Your notes, journals, PDFs, and research stay invisible to us.
Nothing. We do not sell personal data, and future premium features are not meant to change that.
If you have questions about our approach to privacy, or if you find a way we can be even more transparent, our doors are always open.