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Tangent
Your Brain, Your Notes·tangentnotes.com
Tangent is an open source notes app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets users write and link notes the way they think. It visualizes the path of thoughts with sliding panels (Thread View) and a self-building branching map (Map View). Notes are stored as local markdown files, readable and writable by any text editor, with no proprietary lock-in.
What it's for
Connecting related notes via wiki-style linksVisualizing thought processes as a branching mapWriting and organizing markdown notes locallyTracking to-do items within notesQuerying notes by links, tags, todos, or textFocusing writing with a minimalist modeSyncing notes across devices via Git, iCloud, Drive, or Dropbox
Features 19
- Backlink awareness (notes know what links to them)
- Compatibility with Obsidian-style links
- Compatible with sync tools like Git, iCloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox
- Creation Rules for templated note names and folder locations
- Custom CSS support including folder-specific styling
- Custom query language for finding notes by links, tags, todos, or text
- Customizable fonts, colors, and spacing
- Embedded images, audio, video, and PDFs
- Extensive keyboard shortcuts and a command palette
- Live-styled markdown editing (headers, bold, italics, highlights, links, images)
- Local markdown file storage with no server dependency
- Map View showing an automatically built visual map of notes and connections
- Minimalist Focus Mode for distraction-free writing
- Saveable and reusable queries
- Support for YAML front matter, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and code blocks with syntax highlighting
- Tags with support for nested tags
- Thread View with horizontally sliding panels tracking navigation history
- To-do checkboxes on list items
- Wiki-style [[Double Bracket Links]] with autocomplete
At a glance
free tieropen source
TypeDesktop app
DeploymentInstalled (local)
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Linux
Integrations
GitiCloudGoogle DriveDropboxObsidian
Pricing
Tangent is described as 'Free Forever' and open source; no paid tiers are mentioned.
TangentFree
No paid plans; product is entirely free and open source.