An ultra-lightweight notepad that lights up like a matrix.
Open it, type, close it. That's it. Every character is drawn dot by dot on a dim field — the text is never drawn, the dots are. Plain .rtf files in a plain folder, automatic saving, seven languages.
No accounts, no markup, no learning curve. The kind of tool that disappears the moment you start typing.
01 / matrix
Real dots, not a font
237 hand-built glyphs drawn dot by dot on a dim field — the way a Nothing-OS display lights up. café, über, Kraków all render as themselves.
02 / files
Your notes, your disk
Each note is a plain .rtf in a plain folder. Folders nest, notes and folders drag between them, and everything is yours — readable by any app, forever.
03 / quiet
Nothing in the way
No syntax, no markers, nothing to interpret. Smart quotes and substitutions are off, so a # is a #. Styling is stored as attributes, never as markup.
Features
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Twelve things, each small, each earning its place.
Real dot matrix
237 hand-built glyphs on a dim dot field. Accents, ligatures and every letter you need.
Instant writing
Live from the first moment. A wordmark greets an empty library and vanishes at the first keystroke.
Styling that stays quiet
Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, lists and per-run colour. Stored as attributes, never markup.
Notes are files
Plain .rtf in a plain folder. Nest, drag, rename — it's just the filesystem.
Search everywhere
Case- and accent-insensitive across every note, showing the line it was found on.
Typewriter replay
Retyped cell by cell, silently, at a chosen pace. Watch your own words land.
Save as Image
Export a note as a PNG drawn through the same matrix — dots, glow, colours, theme.
Themes & ink
System, Light, Dark; six ink colours; text size 30%–150%. Preferences persist.
Seven languages
EN, ES, FR, DE, PT, IT, NL — following the Mac by default.
Automatic saving
Debounced 0.4 s, flushed on switch, close and quit. Nothing blocks typing.
Essential editing
Selection, copy/paste, undo/redo, find bar (⌘F), spell check, standard shortcuts.
Respects your Mac
Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and VoiceOver are honoured.
Up close
Every character is a grid of light.
Not a font on a grid — the dots themselves. The face is 5 × 8 cells, hand-built: 104 plain shapes, 16 letters no composition can make, 117 accented letters composed from the plain face.
237 glyphs so café, über, Kraków, naïve all light up as themselves
Dot field, not text the glow, the dim field, the ink — all drawn, never rendered as a font
Export-ready Save as Image draws through the same matrix, so the picture carries the look
In motion
Watch the matrix light up.
The dots, the glow, the colours — all live, all on the same field the editor draws on.
FewNote — demo
Shortcuts
Everything a keystroke away.
The standard macOS shortcuts you already know, plus a couple of FewNote's own.
New note⌘ N
Find in note⌘ F
Save as Image…⌘ ⇧ E
Replay note⌘ R
Full view⌘ ⇧ F
Show note list⌘ ⌥ S
Search notes⌘ ⌥ F
Bold / Italic / Underline⌘ B / I / U
Bulleted list⌘ ⇧ L
Preferences⌘ ,
Get FewNote
Open it, type, close it.
Free to install. No accounts, no analytics, no network access. Your notes stay on your disk, in plain files you can read with anything.
