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title: "About · tnotes"
description: "Who makes tnotes, why it exists, how it is licensed and funded, and how to get in touch: GitHub issues and discussions, no email list, no company."
canonical: https://tnotes.app/about
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# About tnotes

Who makes tnotes, why it exists, how it is licensed and funded, and how to get in touch: GitHub issues and discussions, no email list, no company.

## What it is

tnotes is a terminal application for Markdown notes. Notes are plain `.md` files in folders you choose; `#tags` and `[[links]]` are parsed from the text. It has a mouse-capable TUI for writing and a headless CLI that prints JSON, so scripts and AI agents can read and write the same files while the TUI is open. Current version: 1.3.0, released 2026-09-21. See the [changelog](/changelog).

## Who makes it

tnotes is written and maintained by [0x1ocean](https://github.com/0x1ocean), one person, in Rust. It started as a personal tool: a way to keep Obsidian-style linked notes without leaving a terminal or an SSH session, and to let coding agents append to those notes without a plugin or a server. There is no company behind it and no plan to make one.

## License and funding

The source is MIT-licensed at [github.com/0x1ocean/tnotes](https://github.com/0x1ocean/tnotes). There is no paid tier, no telemetry, no account. The vendored editor component is [edtui](https://github.com/preiter93/edtui) (MIT) with a word-wrap patch, published as `edtui-tnotes` on crates.io. Development is unfunded.

## Contact

-   Bugs and feature requests: [GitHub issues](https://github.com/0x1ocean/tnotes/issues).
-   Questions and setups: [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/0x1ocean/tnotes/discussions).
-   Security reports: open a [private security advisory](https://github.com/0x1ocean/tnotes/security/advisories/new) on GitHub.

There is no mailing list and no social account to follow; watch the repository for releases.

## This website

tnotes.app is a static site built with Astro from the `site/` directory of the same repository, hosted on Vercel. Every page has a Markdown twin (send `Accept: text/markdown` or append `.md`), and the whole site is in [llms.txt](/llms.txt) and [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt). Comparison pages state the date their facts were checked and link their sources. See the [privacy note](/privacy).