itsnotes

itsnotes keeps the masonry wall of colored notes that makes Google Keep pleasant and fixes what turns painful once a few thousand notes pile up. The feed is broken into month markers, with quick-access panels for colors, tags, saved searches and a calendar, plus basic folders and internal note links.

The most interesting part is the Markdown mirror. Every note is written out continuously to a folder of files with a metadata header for tags, color, reminders and pin, archive or trash state. Edits made in Obsidian or any editor are pulled back in, the database stays the source of truth, conflicts are parked in their own folder, and renames are tracked by note ID.

Around that sit the things a large note pile eventually needs.

• Imports: a Google Takeout archive brings Keep data over, and text and markdown files upload in bulk.
• View modes: masonry grid, stacked and dense list, tuned in a deep settings modal.
• History: note revisions are kept, and book and movie metadata is fetched automatically.
• REST API: the API the frontend uses is open to scripts through a long-lived token.
• Optional AI: auto-tagging, OCR, summarization and reminder parsing run against OpenAI, Anthropic or a local Ollama instance.
• MCP server: off by default and read-only, it lets Claude and other clients search your notes.

It runs as three containers, client, server and PostgreSQL, built with React, Node.js and Socket.io, with example Compose files for Caddy or Traefik and automatic HTTPS. A hosted demo exists for anyone wanting a look first.