Quick Notes

Create simple markdown notes in Raycast and sync to a folder locally. No integrations required!

Bik Nandy

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Overview

Quick Notes

Create simple markdown notes in Raycast stored locally. No integrations required! Allows you to sync with a folder of your choice.

Features

View, create, and delete markdown notes
Search by note title, body, or tag
Draft and auto-save if you accidentally exit out while creating/editing a new note
Quick toggle tags for a note
View note metadata & tags
Export notes to a folder to use in another application
Emoji Support everywhere using : 😁
Setup auto-save to a folder of your choice, set in preferences
Tag manager
Summarize note using AI (Raycast Pro)

If you'd like, you can export or auto-sync your notes as markdown to a directory to use in a 3rd-party app like Obsidian, VS Code, or Notion. This is completely optional though and notes will still save locally.

Markdown Files

Notes written to a folder include YAML frontmatter and an H1 title, so they work out of the box with GitHub Pages / Jekyll blogs and tools like Obsidian:

---
title: "Your Blog Post Title"
date: 2026-05-07 10:00:00
icon: "Document"
tags: ["example", "jekyll"]
---

# Your Blog Post Title

Your note body...

The frontmatter and generated H1 stay in the file only — they're stripped back out when syncing, so your note body in Raycast stays clean. Tags added to a file's frontmatter are imported (and created) on sync.

Commands

View Notes

Action	macOS Shortcut	Windows Shortcut
Edit Note	`⌘`+`E`	`Ctrl`+`E`
Copy Note	`⌘`+`⇧`+`C`	`Ctrl`+`⇧`+`C`
Open Note Externally	`⌘`+`O`	`Ctrl`+`O`
New Note	`⌘`+`N`	`Ctrl`+`N`
Delete Note	`⌃`+`X`	`Ctrl`+`D`
Delete All Notes	`⌃`+`⇧`+`X`	`Ctrl`+`⇧`+`D`
Summarize with AI	`⌘`+`⇧`+`A`	`Ctrl`+`⇧`+`A`
Clear AI Summary	`⌘`+`⌥`+`A`	`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`A`
Apply / Remove Tag	`⌘`+`⇧`+`T`	`Ctrl`+`⇧`+`T`
New Tag	`⌘`+`⇧`+`N`	`Ctrl`+`⇧`+`N`
Toggle Info Panel	`⌘`+`I`	`Ctrl`+`I`
Sort	`⌘`+`S`	`Ctrl`+`S`

Create Note Arguments

Title - Title of note
Note - Body of note

Search Notes Arguments

Search - Text to search in both title and body
Tag - Search by tag

Export Notes (1-way sync)

Set a directory to export your notes once
Setting a folder in extension settings automates this

Import Notes

Import multiple .md files to your notes

Sync with Folder (2-way automatic sync)

Disabled by default
Set up automatic 2-way sync by adding a folder in settings
- Adding .md markdown files to your folder will sync back to Quick Notes
Auto-runs every 10min (background sync can be turned off)

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