Notes that write like notes
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Version 1.0 · Windows
A canvas you
A canvas you
think on
Notes, images, files, links and video sit as cards on an infinite board — and you draw the connections between the ones that belong together. No folders of orphaned documents. No lock-in.
No account. No telemetry. Your boards never leave your machine.
What it does
Built for thinking sideways
Linear documents are good at conclusions and bad at getting to them. Jinn Notes gives you room to spread the problem out.
Connections, not hierarchies
Drag a wire between any two cards. A card takes as many connections as you need, and adding one never displaces another.
Anything can be a card
Images with a full-size lightbox, any file type opened in its own app, web links with previews, YouTube playing inline, and bare text labels for titling regions of the board.
Paste and it knows what you meant
An image becomes an image. A YouTube URL becomes a video. A link to a picture is downloaded and embedded. A file path copies the file in. One shortcut, six different right answers.
Groups become folders
Box related cards into a group, then let Jinn Notes mirror that structure on disk — with a preview of every planned move, and nothing touched until you say so.
Search the whole board
Titles, note text, filenames, captions and link URLs. Matches stay lit and everything else recedes, so you keep your bearings.
A closer look
Every screen, unretouched
These are captures of the shipping build, not mockups.
Double-click to write
Cards are read-only until you mean to edit them, so a stray click moves a card instead of putting a cursor in it. The toolbar carries just what a note needs — and the T button flips that note between rich text and Markdown.
Your files stay yours
A project is just a folder
There is no library, no database, no proprietary blob. You pick a folder; Jinn Notes puts a .canvas file in it and copies the files you add alongside, under their own readable names.
- Saved as JSON Canvas — the open format behind Obsidian Canvas, readable by other tools.
- Browsable in File Explorer. Syncable with whatever you already use — OneDrive, Dropbox, git.
- Saves are atomic — written to a temporary file and renamed into place, so a crash can't leave a half-written board.
- Uninstall and your work is still sitting there, in the folder you chose.
On disk
Deep-sea vents/ ├── Deep-sea vents.canvas ├── vent-diagram.png ├── 2019-survey.pdf └── Research/ ├── paper.pdf └── Papers/ └── old.pdf
Groups on the board become subfolders here — only when you ask, and only after you approve the list of moves.
Get it
Free, and yours to keep
Jinn Notes runs on Windows 10 and 11. No account, no subscription, nothing phoned home.
Microsoft Store
Automatic updates and a one-click install. The recommended way to get Jinn Notes.
Coming soonDirect download
An MSIX package for Windows 10/11 on x64. Install it yourself if you would rather not use the Store.
JinnNotes 1.0.0 · MSIX · 146 MBDouble-click to install. Windows will show the publisher name from the package signature before it installs anything.
Requires Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) or later, 64-bit. Roughly 350 MB once installed — Jinn Notes bundles its own rendering engine so it does not depend on anything else being present.
Give the idea some room
Stop flattening your thinking into a document that was never shaped like your problem.
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