Your notes, drawings and calendar
in one quiet place

A free Windows app for notes you can draw on, websites you can open right inside a page, password-locked pages, and a calendar that counts down to the days that matter.

Free · No account · Windows 10 and 11

Everything in one app

No accounts, no subscription, nothing uploaded anywhere.

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Pages that get out of the way

Headings, lists, to-dos, toggles, quotes, code and colors — all from a / menu, with subpages as deep as you like.

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Draw on your photos

Add a photo and mark it up with a pen, highlighter, arrows, shapes and text. Drawings are stored as vectors, so they stay sharp.

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Websites inside your notes

Paste a link and the site opens as a subpage. Browse it without leaving the app — and draw on top of it; your marks scroll with the page.

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Pages only you can open

Lock a page with a password. Its text, photos and drawings are encrypted with PBKDF2 + AES-256-GCM. No password, no way in — not even for us.

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A calendar for real life

Month, week, day, agenda and year views, recurring events, reminders, categories, and public holidays for the US and Turkey.

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Special days with a countdown

Birthdays and anniversaries with photos, counting down on your home screen so you never notice them a day late.

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Grab any part of your screen

Ctrl+Shift+2 works even when Tekinote is in the background: drag over a piece of the screen and it lands in your page, drawing tools open, done.

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Quick note from anywhere

Ctrl+Alt+N opens a small box in the corner of Windows. Type, press Ctrl+Enter, and it is in your notes.

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Page history

Older versions of every page are kept on your computer. Look at any of them and restore it with one click — free, not a paid extra.

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Search inside pictures

Screenshots and photos are read with the OCR built into Windows, so searching for a word that appears in an image finds the page. Offline, of course.

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Backups that survive a dead PC

Tekinote backs everything up to a folder you choose — a USB drive, another disk, or your Drive/OneDrive folder. Optionally encrypted.

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Share a page

Send a page — with its subpages, photos and drawings — as a single file. The other side imports it in one click.

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English and Turkish

The whole app, including dates and holidays, switches language in Settings. More languages are on the way.

Your notes stay yours

Tekinote is local-first. Everything lives on your own computer; nothing is sent to a server, because there is no server.

  • No account and no sign-up — install and start writing.
  • Locked pages are encrypted on disk, so a stolen laptop is not a leaked diary.
  • Automatic backups go wherever you point them.
  • Updates arrive with one click, from a green button in the corner.
Calendar view in Tekinote
About the Windows warning: Tekinote isn't code-signed yet (certificates are expensive for a one-person project), so Windows may show “Windows protected your PC”. Click More info → Run anyway. The installer is built and published straight from the source on GitHub.
A page in Tekinote

Made by one person

Tekinote is free and ad-free. If it earns a place on your desktop, a small donation keeps new features coming.