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Write on your phone, in a browser or on the Linux desktop. Record a voice note and get it back as text, transcribed on your own hardware. Search all of it, transcripts included, and keep writing offline on the phone and the desktop.
There is no public sign-up and nothing to download yet. notepad64 runs on its maker’s own server.
Sign in with an email and a password, and every app reaches the same notes on your server. A note behaves the same in each: it saves a moment after you stop typing, keeps its folder and its pin, and offers the same choice when two edits meet.
Notes are plain text or markdown, organised in folders. Photos, recordings and other files attach to the note they belong to.
Phone
Any browser
Desktop
Record a voice note from any of the apps and keep it as audio, or have it transcribed. Transcription is a choice for each recording, and it runs on machines you own: whisper.cpp, on a GPU when one is up and on a CPU when it is not.
The transcript is stored beside the recording, and the server never edits your note by itself. When you want the words in the note, Insert puts them there, as an edit like any other.
In any of the apps. On the phone and the desktop the recording waits on the device until the server has it, so a bad connection cannot lose it.
If transcription is on for that recording, the server queues a job. The transcription workers ask the server for jobs; they never open its database.
A whisper.cpp worker on a GPU machine takes the job at once and runs a large model (large-v3-turbo).
If no GPU worker has taken it within a minute (the machine may be switched off), a CPU worker runs it with a smaller model and records which model it used.
The transcript appears under the recording and is searchable at once. Insert puts it into the note as an ordinary, versioned edit.
On the maker’s GPU machine an 11-second clip is transcribed in under a second.
Each of these is built and running on the maker’s server. What is not built is named further down this page.
Notes in plain text or markdown, kept where you put them and found again by anything they say.
Plain text or markdown, organised in nested folders, with the ones you need pinned to the top. Deleted notes go to a trash you can restore from.
Full-text search over titles, bodies and transcripts, with the matching words highlighted. A match inside a recording says so.
Take one, pick from the gallery, paste or drop it. The server keeps the original and makes an upright preview for every app to show.
Record from any of the apps. Transcription is optional for each recording, and it runs on your own machines.
Record in a note, or start a new voice note in one tap. Recordings play back in each app, with the transcript underneath.
whisper.cpp turns speech into text on a GPU worker, with a CPU worker as the fallback. The audio is not sent to a transcription service.
A transcript is stored beside its recording. It goes into the note only when you choose Insert, as an ordinary edit.
Offline when the network goes, honest when two edits meet, and shared only with the people you ask.
The phone and the desktop app keep every note. Edits, new notes, recordings and photos wait on the device and are sent when the server is back, never twice.
If a note changed somewhere else while you were editing, you choose: keep mine or take theirs. Nothing is silently overwritten.
Invite someone to a folder by email as a viewer or an editor. They accept first, and the folder stays yours to move, trash or stop sharing.
Send a note to thingfile, where it becomes an item with its photos and files, or to muster, where its text becomes a proposal for a new project.
Share text, links, photos or recordings from another app into notepad64, and share a note, a photo or a transcript back out.
Copy something in another program and the desktop app offers it as a new note or an addition to this one. Paste pictures in, copy photos and recordings out.
The phone and the desktop app keep a copy of every note, so they open, edit, create, record and search with no connection at all. What you do offline waits on the device and is sent, in order, the next time the server answers. Each new note and upload carries its own id, so one whose reply was lost is never applied twice.
Every save names the version of the note it was made on. If the note has changed since, on another device or by someone you share the folder with, the save is refused and the app asks you: keep mine, or take theirs. A newer version is never silently overwritten.
notepad64 is early, and this page would rather say so than let you find out.
The newest pieces (shared folders, sending to muster, the Android share sheet and offline on the desktop) are built and covered by automated tests, but have not yet had much use by hand.
notepad64 is not open to the public yet. When there is something to sign up for or download, this is where it will be.
