a notes and journal app for linux

shizumu is a journal app for linux that never asks where to file it. you open it with a thought and write. nothing to structure first, nowhere to put it.

install it

from flathub, which keeps it updated:

flatpak install flathub app.shizumu.Shizumu

or a deb, an rpm, or a tarball from the download section, signed with our key. the same app on android and windows, if you write on more than one machine.

what a page does

every day starts on an empty page. you write to think. when something turns out to matter, you pin it. when a thread continues past today, a book, a job search, a project, you put the page on a trail, and the pins you kept there come back onto the page the next time you open it. everything else stays in memory, searchable.

it is keyboard driven the way a linux desktop is: / for a table, a chart, an outline, a block of code. @ to reach a page, a pin, or a trail. ctrl+k for the trail index. ctrl+p to pin from the cursor. ctrl+f to find.

a notes app for linux as well as a journal

people looking for the best notes app for linux usually want quick notes that stay findable later. in shizumu every note is a page, everything stays in memory and searchable, and a pin brings back the part that mattered. it installs from flathub and sits in the menu like any other linux notes app.

the best journal app linux users ask for is usually a private one

the writing is a sqlite file on your disk. no account, no upload, nothing that profiles you. if you want it on a second device, sync is end-to-end encrypted, and you can run the relay yourself. a diary app linux users can read the source of: the client and the relay are both on github, apache-2.0 on the client and agpl-3.0-or-later on the relay.

if you are looking at an obsidian alternative linux side

a journal app linux users often try first is a vault of markdown files, and the first thing a vault asks is where the file goes. shizumu asks nothing. one page a day, pins for what matters, trails for what continues. more on that page: an obsidian alternative.

what holds on every platform

shizumu is free, on linux, android, and windows. your writing stays on your device. sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted: the relay holds what it cannot read, and neither can we. the app and the relay are open source: apache-2.0 on the client, agpl-3.0-or-later on the relay.

it will not write for you, because the writing is the thinking.

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