What OttaNote does
Folders, notes and attachments. Headings and checklists to organise your text. Search to find things again. And a handful of small details that make it easier to use every day.
Folders, notes, attachments
Organise your work into folders and notes; folders can have subfolders. Drag PDFs, images and files straight into a note.
Inside a note, headings give it structure. Collapse a section when you don't need it, or move it somewhere else in one piece — with the mouse or the keyboard. Checklists work the same way, and nest as deep as your work needs.
Tags are there if you'd rather search by subject than by folder. And you can link notes together: type [[ to point to another note, and that note shows you which others point to it.
Deliberately limited, carefully considered
OttaNote sticks to a handful of features that matter, without the far-fetched extras. The care goes into how those features behave — especially in the things that look simple.
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Collapsing and moving sections
Collapse a heading and everything under it goes with it. Drag to move that whole block somewhere else, with the mouse or the keyboard.
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Checking off a whole block
Ctrl+click (⌘+click) a checkbox to toggle that item and everything beneath it at once. A finished job with twelve sub-tasks takes a single click.
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Ctrl+M for your own highlight
Pick the formatting you use most — bold, a text colour, a background, or a combination — and apply it with a single keystroke. Ctrl+Shift+M changes the choice again.
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Paste that recognises
If there's Markdown on your clipboard, OttaNote asks whether to turn it into headings, lists and checkboxes, or leave it as raw text. Same question for formatted text from a web page.
Tidying up when a job is done
"Delete checked items" removes every checked line from the note. Anything still open stays — even if it sat under a checked item, in which case those sub-items move up a level.
If you want to keep a record of what you've done, OttaNote first moves the checked lines into a separate note in the same folder, under the headings they belonged to. That copy is named something like · 20260716 Moving house. Your working list stays short, and the record of what's finished stays put.
The previous version stays in the version history: 30 days on Free, a year on Plus.
The same on every device
OttaNote runs in your browser. There is nothing to install and nothing to update: you open an address and your notes are there. You start a note on your laptop and finish it that evening in the browser on your desktop.
Light or dark theme, and seven languages.
Your notes live on our own servers in Europe. You can always export to Markdown, HTML or PDF.
When you are better off with something else
Do you work with a team, use databases, views and relations, publish pages to the web, or need an integration? Then OttaNote is not what you are looking for. Notion and workspaces like it do that, and they do it well. Stay where you are.
OttaNote is for anyone who once spent an evening building a system like that and then never wrote anything down again. You make a folder and you type. There's no system to design first.