NoteGen
NoteGen is a cross-platform Markdown note app that helps you capture ideas, files, images, and recordings, then organize them into structured notes with AI.
What is NoteGen?
NoteGen is a local-first note-taking and writing app built around standard Markdown files. It helps users capture scattered material such as text, screenshots, images, links, files, todos, and voice recordings, then organize that material into clear notes, reports, and articles. On macOS and other desktop platforms, it combines a Markdown editor with AI chat, agent-style workflows, search, and a visual canvas for diagrams and connected thinking. Users can continue writing manually, ask questions about their own material, generate summaries or rewrites, and reuse notes through a knowledge base workflow. The app also supports syncing through services such as Git-based providers, WebDAV, and S3-compatible storage for people who want access across devices. Published by zhang xuan, NoteGen is aimed at students, researchers, writers, and knowledge workers who want plain-file notes with AI assistance instead of a closed proprietary note format.
Key features
- Capture text, screenshots, images, links, files, todos, and voice recordings in one place
- Write and edit Markdown notes with tables, task lists, code blocks, math, and diagrams
- Organize selected records into structured notes, reports, or articles with AI
- Ask questions, summarize material, rewrite text, and translate content in chat
- Build a searchable knowledge base from your notes and reference material
- Create flowcharts, mind maps, timelines, drawings, and charts on an infinite canvas
- Sync notes through Git-based services, WebDAV, or S3-compatible storage
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
NoteGen is legitimate note-taking software, and its access to files, recordings, images, or online AI services is consistent with its purpose. Notes and related content are stored locally by default, but information you choose to process with online models, sync services, image hosts, or other connected tools may be sent to those services. Keep the app updated, review any external AI or sync connections you enable, and be careful when granting it access to sensitive workspaces or importing third-party extensions.
Recommendation: Keep NoteGen if you actively use it for Markdown notes, AI-assisted writing, or knowledge organization. If you no longer use it, removing the app is reasonable, but export or back up any notes, attachments, and workspace data you want to keep first.
Common paths
/Applications/NoteGen.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.codexu.NoteGen
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.codexu.NoteGen
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.codexu.NoteGen.plist
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