# Quick Notes for Raycast

URL: https://www.raycast.com/biknandy/quick-notes

> Create simple markdown notes in Raycast and sync to a folder locally. No integrations required!

- Install: raycast://extensions/biknandy/quick-notes
- Author: [Bik Nandy](https://www.raycast.com/biknandy)
- Installs: 8,125
- Platforms: Windows, macOS
- Categories: Productivity, Developer Tools
- Updated: 2026-08-28
- Source: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/e1647d33c6cc03d4312f764de100bdd331401a73/extensions/quick-notes/

## Commands

- **View Notes**: Create, view, and manage your quick notes.
- **Create Note**: Create a quick note.
- **Manage Tags**: Create, edit, and delete your tags.
- **Search Notes**: Search notes by title, body, or tag
- **Export Notes**: Export all notes to a directory.
- **Import Notes**: Import markdown files into your notes.

## README

### Quick Notes

Create simple markdown notes in Raycast stored locally. No integrations required! Allows you to sync with a folder of your choice.

#### Features

- View, create, and delete markdown notes
- Search by note title, body, or tag
- Draft and auto-save if you accidentally exit out while creating/editing a new note
- Quick toggle tags for a note
- View note metadata & tags
- Export notes to a folder to use in another application
- Emoji Support everywhere using `:` 😁
- Setup auto-save to a folder of your choice, set in preferences
- Tag manager
- Summarize note using AI (Raycast Pro)

If you'd like, you can export or auto-sync your notes as markdown to a directory to use in a 3rd-party app like Obsidian, VS Code, or Notion. This is **completely optional** though and notes will still save locally.

#### Markdown Files

Notes written to a folder include YAML frontmatter and an H1 title, so they work out of the box with GitHub Pages / Jekyll blogs and tools like Obsidian:

```markdown
---
title: "Your Blog Post Title"
date: 2026-05-07 10:00:00
icon: "Document"
tags: ["example", "jekyll"]
---

# Your Blog Post Title

Your note body...
```

The frontmatter and generated H1 stay in the file only — they're stripped back out when syncing, so your note body in Raycast stays clean. Tags added to a file's frontmatter are imported (and created) on sync.

#### Commands

##### View Notes

| Action | macOS Shortcut | Windows Shortcut |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edit Note | `⌘`+`E` | `Ctrl`+`E` |
| Copy Note | `⌘`+`⇧`+`C` | `Ctrl`+`⇧`+`C` |
| Open Note Externally | `⌘`+`O` | `Ctrl`+`O` |
| New Note | `⌘`+`N` | `Ctrl`+`N` |
| Delete Note | `⌃`+`X` | `Ctrl`+`D` |
| Delete All Notes | `⌃`+`⇧`+`X` | `Ctrl`+`⇧`+`D` |
| Summarize with AI | `⌘`+`⇧`+`A` | `Ctrl`+`⇧`+`A` |
| Clear AI Summary | `⌘`+`⌥`+`A` | `Ctrl`+`Alt`+`A` |
| Apply / Remove Tag | `⌘`+`⇧`+`T` | `Ctrl`+`⇧`+`T` |
| New Tag | `⌘`+`⇧`+`N` | `Ctrl`+`⇧`+`N` |
| Toggle Info Panel | `⌘`+`I` | `Ctrl`+`I` |
| Sort | `⌘`+`S` | `Ctrl`+`S` |

##### Create Note Arguments

- `Title` - Title of note
- `Note` - Body of note

##### Search Notes Arguments

- `Search` - Text to search in both title and body
- `Tag` - Search by tag

##### Export Notes (1-way sync)

- Set a directory to export your notes once
- Setting a folder in extension settings automates this

##### Import Notes

- Import multiple `.md` files to your notes

##### Sync with Folder (2-way automatic sync)

- Disabled by default
- Set up automatic 2-way sync by adding a folder in settings
  - Adding `.md` markdown files to your folder will sync back to Quick Notes
- Auto-runs every 10min (background sync can be turned off)