Hi everyone, I'm part of a small student team in Munich, and we built Nodes, a native macOS Markdown editor. It started with our own note-taking. We kept diaries of ideas in Markdown and kept noticing how thoughts connected to older ones, but linking them by hand was a constant chore. We wanted something that felt truly native to the Mac, kept everything local, and got out of the way while writing. So Nodes is: 100% native (SwiftUI), no Electron, no webview Fully local, no cloud, no account A clean, typographic interface that renders LaTeX math, tables and syntax-highlighted code inline Free (we cover Apple's $99/yr dev fee ourselves) We also open-sourced the Markdown engine it runs on, a TextKit 2 engine bridged to SwiftUI (link below). To be honest about where we are: right now you still link notes manually, like in Obsidian. The real goal is for Nodes to surface the connections between your notes for you, and on-device AI is how we plan to get there. We're not there yet, but that's the direction. We'd love your feedback, the good and the brutal. I'll be around all day to answer anything. Written in Nodes

Nodes - Free, native Markdown Editor for Mac. No Electron, no cloud.

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