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One tree. Quick notes written in the app sit in a 「随手记」 folder at the top, and the synced folders sit below it. The ⇅ button sorts it by name or by last change.
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Local folders on the Mac. Like an Obsidian vault: the Mac app reads and writes your folders on disk, so documents open instantly, even offline. Changes made in the app or in any other editor sync to the cloud, and edits made on the phone are written back to disk within a few seconds.
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Back and forward. Each pane remembers the documents opened in it. ‹ and › in its bar (or ⌘[ / ⌘], ⌘⌥← / ⌘⌥→, or a mouse's side buttons) go back and forward, to where each one was scrolled. Closing and reopening the app brings back the same panes and documents, each where you left it, with their history.
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Right-click menu. In the editor: formatting, headings, lists and quotes, and inserts (link, table, code or formula block, Mermaid diagram, date), plus cut, copy and paste; ⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘K work too. Shift + right-click gives the system menu; in the Mac app it has 检查元素 (Inspect Element), and 显示 → 网页检查器 (⌥⌘I) opens the inspector.
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Outline. Every document has its own outline beside it: click a heading to jump, and the current section stays marked as you scroll. Drag its edge to resize it.
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Split panes. Split up, down, left or right, by dragging a file onto a pane's edge or with ⌘-click. The layout is remembered.
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Styles. Thirteen looks, picked in 设置 (Settings), each in light and dark (follow the system, or pick one):
- 玻璃 Glass: frosted, see-through panels
- 纸张 Paper: warm paper and serif text; dark is paper by lamplight
- 终端 Terminal: green on black, monospace; light is dark green on pale paper
- 方块 Blocks: a pixel-art world of sky, grass and stone panels; dark is night, with a moon
- 水墨 Ink: rice paper, layered ink and a red seal
- 墨水屏 E-ink: black, white and greys, with no motion or translucency
- 手帐 Notebook: dot-grid paper, washi tape and highlighter
- 瑞士 Swiss: a strict grid, bold sans-serif and one red
- 霓虹 Neon: glowing magenta and cyan signs at night; light is daytime
- 蓝图 Blueprint: white lines on drafting blue, with a coordinate grid
- 粘土 Clay: soft pastels and puffy rounded cards
- 日落 Sunset: an orange-to-violet sky; dark is the starry sky after dusk
- 护眼 Eye care: the soft bean green of eye-care screens, with gentle contrast; dark is warm and low in blue light
The tab icon, the Mac app's Dock icon, the Android launcher icon and the graph change with the style.
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Settings. 设置 at the bottom of the sidebar holds the style, light / dark, text size, the interface language (中文 / English), whether new documents show their outline, widths, sync, the local cache, the account and update checks.
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Assistant. The ✦ button (or ⌘J) opens a chat panel on the right, a sheet from the bottom on phones. Ask it to find, summarise or edit your notes: it searches and reads them in the app, and every change it suggests appears as a diff. Nothing changes until you press 应用 (Apply). Select text in a document and right-click → 问助手 (Ask the assistant), or press ⌘J, to ask about just that passage. It runs on your own API key for any OpenAI-compatible service (DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, OpenAI, or a custom address), set in 设置 → 助手 (Settings → Assistant). The key is stored encrypted in your account, so it works on every device. It can also use a model running on this computer (Magpie, Ollama, LM Studio): pick it under 这台电脑上 (On this computer). That setting stays on this device, and the page talks to the model directly. A browser must be allowed to reach it (in Magpie: Settings → Network and sharing → Web pages); the Mac app doesn't need this. To have Magpie list 随记 on its Agents page, install the plugin in magpie/ once (magpie plugin add ./magpie) and open the Mac app; then connect 随记 there and pick a model, and the Mac app's assistant uses it with nothing to fill in.
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Relationship graph. Like Obsidian's graph, built from [[wikilinks]], relative .md links and front-matter tags.
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Markdown. Math (KaTeX), Mermaid diagrams, and Obsidian's [[wikilinks]] (shown by their alias, opening the linked note) and ==highlights==.
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Blog links. Every published post links to its page on the blog (https://qiao1.top/posts/<abbrlink>.html).
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Fast and offline-first. Documents are cached on the device and prefetched. Notes save on the device first and upload once online.
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Always current. Open windows pick up a new deploy by themselves, and the Mac app updates itself.
