Swifty Notes seems like a pretty nice Markdown editor

22 June, 2026 - Categories: notetaking - Tags: Swifty Notes, Markdown

By Steven Rosenberg

After installing every notetaking app I could find on Flathub, it has taken me a while to get to Swifty Notes, which is a pretty nice looking GTK app. It's called Swifty because it's written in the Swift programming language.

The approach it takes to rendering Markdown is interesting — in a good way. The app is divided into three areas. On the left, there is a list of the note names. You type in the center of the window, and the rendered Markdown is seen on the right.

Note titles default to the note's first line. It looks like they can be changed, but that also replaces your first line with the new title. That's not great for my blog-posting workflow.

Like almost all of the notetaking apps I've tried, Swifty Notes saves your work automatically. And the exports use the note name followed by .md as the file name.

So except for the note-naming issue, this would be a great app for blog writing. Unfortunately, the naming issue is a bit of a deal-breaker.

While I'm still here, let's see how Swifty Notes handles checkbox lists.

Does Swifty Notes handle checkbox lists well?

• Yes
• No
• It works, but it's weird