FromScratch is a little app that you can use as a quick note taking or todo app.
- Small and simple, the only UI is the text you type
- Saves on-the-fly, no need to manually save
- Automatic indenting
- Note-folding
- Powerful keyboard control
- Replaces common syntax with symbols, such as arrows
- Free
- cmd/ctrl+up - move current line up
- cmd/ctrl+down - move current line down
- cmd/ctrl+d - delete current line
- cmd/ctrl+w/q - close application
- cmd/ctrl +/= - zoom text in
- cmd/ctrl - - zoom text out
- cmd/ctrl+0 - reset text size
- cmd/ctrl+]/[ - fold note collapsing
- cmd/ctrl+f - search (you can also use regular expressions, by starting and ending with a /)
- shift+cmd/ctrl+f - replace
- shift+cmd/ctrl+r - replace all
- cmd/ctrl+g - jump to line (you can also use : notation, or go relative lines with + and -)
- cmd/ctrl+s - ...this does nothing.
Recent downloads for macOS, Windows and Linux available on https://fromscratch.rocks
For Arch users, FromScratch is available on AUR
For macOS, you can also install FromScratch via Homebrew: $ brew cask install fromscratch
# Download from git
git clone https://github.com/kilian/fromscratch.git
# Install dependencies
cd fromscratch && npm install
# build and run
npm build
electron main.js
# or run dev version
npm run hot-server
#in a different terminal:
npm run start-hot
Where is my data saved?
Your data is saved in a plain text file content.txt. On Mac and Linux, this file is saved in ~/.fromscratch. On Windows this file is saved in a directory called ".fromscratch" in your userprofile directory.
FromScratch is built upon these open source projects: Electron, React, Fira Code, CodeMirror and Electron-react-boilerplate.
Thanks to @bittersweet for helping me set up IPC to work around a particularly nasty bug, and @chentsulin for the electron-react-boilerplate.