Markdown Notes in the Web Dashboard

The Notes view in the web dashboard gives you a desktop-grade editor for the note archive that lives on your Android phone. Visit the URL shown in the PlainApp app from any browser on the same Wi-Fi network and you'll see your notes laid out in a two-pane layout — list on the left, editor on the right.

Because the dashboard talks to the phone directly, the notes you edit never round-trip through a cloud server. Your browser connects to the phone over an encrypted TLS connection, layered with XChaCha20-Poly1305, so keystrokes stay on your local network.

Key capabilities

• Two-pane list + editor — the left pane shows a virtualized list of every note with title, snippet, tags, and modified time. Click any item to open it in the right-hand editor.
• Editor / preview toggle — a single button switches the editor between raw markdown and a rendered preview. It's a toggle, not a split view — you're always looking at one or the other.
• Paste or drag images straight into a note — paste a screenshot or drag an image file into the editor and it's uploaded to the phone and embedded as a markdown image link automatically.
• Tag filter — click a tag chip above the list to filter notes by tag.
• Bulk actions — check multiple notes for bulk trash, tag, or export.
• Export to .md — export selected notes as a zip archive of individual .md files, ready to back up to a folder on your computer.

Walkthrough

1. Open the Notes page from the sidebar. The list loads the most recently modified notes, with the total count in the header.
2. Click a note in the list to open it in the editor. The title and body populate the right pane.
3. Edit the content — type markdown directly. Changes auto-save automatically about half a second after you stop typing; there's no save button.
4. Toggle the preview with the preview button in the editor toolbar to check your formatting, then toggle back to keep editing.
5. Paste an image you've copied (or drag one from your file manager) directly into the editor — it uploads and appears inline as a markdown image.
6. Filter by tag by clicking a tag chip above the list; click it again to clear the filter.

Tips & tricks

• Use Export on a selection of notes to download a zip of .md files — handy for a periodic backup to your computer.
• Search the archive with the search box above the list; it matches both titles and bodies as you type.
• Selecting a note updates the URL to /notes/<id>, so you can bookmark a specific note and jump straight back to it.
• The markdown editor auto-completes common structures like headings, lists, tables, and footnotes as you type, and renders math with KaTeX in the preview.

Privacy & security notes

Related features

• Markdown Notes on Android — the on-phone editor for when you're away from a computer.
• File Management in the Web Dashboard — manage the raw .md files you export from notes.
• RSS Reader in the Web Dashboard — clip articles into your note archive from the RSS reader.