Free · Open source · macOS, Linux, and Windows

Your Markdown.
Your folders.

A quieter way to work with the files you already have. Read, edit, and export from ordinary folders. No vault, no account, no cloud library.

macOS 12 or newer · Linux .deb · Windows installer

1537paperstreet in Paper Light: project list, file tree, table of contents, and a rendered note titled The long room.

Any folder

Projects are paths on disk. Removing one from the list does not delete it.

Atomic saves

A file you did not edit comes back byte for byte. A file changed elsewhere is not overwritten.

Diagrams and math

Mermaid and KaTeX render locally, with the rest of GitHub Flavored Markdown.

Local agents

Codex, Claude, or OpenCode, if they are already on this machine. The app does not send your notes away.

01

Write beside the page

Preview, Edit, and Split share one window. The source stays readable — headings, links, and fenced code — while the page beside it updates as you type and keeps the edited text visible. Choosing a heading in the contents list scrolls the page and the source together and focuses the cursor at the start of its source line. Formatting lives in the toolbar, and in the shortcuts you already use.

Split view: Markdown source on the left and a rendered Mermaid diagram of a note moving from the folder to the page and back.
Split keeps the source next to the page. The page updates in place. Diagrams are Mermaid, drawn locally.

02

The room, as it works now

Folders, reading, and writing, with search, tasks, images, and a contents panel you can put away.

03

Twelve rooms for the same text

Paper, Solarized, Nord, Gruvbox, Catppuccin, Tokyo Night, and GitHub. Follow the system appearance, or flip light and dark for this session with ⌘⌥T — that choice is not written into your settings. Fonts, reading size, and preview colors live in Settings. A theme file you add is listed with these twelve.

  • Paper Light
  • Paper Dark
  • Solarized Light
  • Solarized Dark
  • Gruvbox Light
  • Gruvbox Dark
  • Catppuccin Latte
  • Catppuccin Mocha
  • Nord
  • Tokyo Night
  • GitHub Light
  • GitHub Dark
The same note in Paper Dark, with the file tree, table of contents, and reading column.
Paper Dark. The text does not change. The room does.

04

The folder never leaves

  • No account

    Reading, search, themes, and diagrams run on your computer. The only optional network request is Check for Updates.

  • No vault

    Open a folder, or drop one on the window. The same files stay available to Git, your file manager, and any other editor.

  • A board for this folder

    Dashboard counts projects, Markdown files, and the agents you configured. Those numbers stay on this computer.

  • Agents on your terms

    An external agent is a CLI you already installed: Codex, Claude, or OpenCode. It may use the network under its own terms. This app does not ship your Markdown to a model service.

Free, on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

macOS 12 or newer, Apple Silicon and Intel. A Linux .deb for x86_64, and a Windows installer. The macOS build is signed and notarized. PDF export, and installing an update from inside the app, are on macOS.