My markdown notes system

I wanted to design a solution that has low friction & easy access.

Physical notebooks have low friction to start writing: there’s no need to think about folders, filenames, or document titles. Similarly, it’s effortless to review recent notes by merely looking at the previous pages. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find an equivalent digital implementation.

To stop using paper notebooks, I needed to have:

There are certain cases where I would like to have a Canonical note on a certain topic (e.g., my interview questions template, one on one notes with colleagues). For that use-case, I would like to have:

Fastnotes is a simple Alfred workflow that provides 4 simple commands:

Once Fastnotes installed, type ` to see all commands.

Fastnotes is fairly simple and includes a few hard coded parameters:

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