Tolaria
Tolaria
Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native
relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration
Open source, free forever, no account required
Every note is a Markdown file with a YAML frontmatter. No database, no proprietary format.
Read them with any editor, grep them from the terminal, version them with Git.
Plain Markdown on disk
YAML frontmatter for structure
Block-based editing with slash commands, wikilinks, and drag-and-drop images.
Everything writes clean Markdown to disk. Keyboard-first by design.
Rich block editor
[[Wikilinks]] with autocomplete
Rich relationships as first-class citizen
Commit, push, and browse history from within the app. Every change tracked. Sync across devices with the same tool you already trust for code.
Rich commit history, right in the app
Navigable version history per single note
Track changes, commit and push
Tolaria exposes a full MCP server to make CLI tools work easily with your notes out of the box.
And with the Git integration, you are always in control of changes and history.
Sidebar with custom sections
Tolaria is the product of the learnings from 5 years of full-time content creation.
I published 300+ articles and organized my knowledge into 9000+ notes.
Founder & Author of Refactoring
Tolaria is born from 5 years of full-time writing at Refactoring, during which I have written 300+ articles about software engineering and developer productivity. Along the way, I amassed 9000+ notes on my Notion workspace, learned a lot about knowledge management, productivity, and, more recently, on working well with AI on docs. None of the existing tools matched what I wanted, so I built one myself.
5 years
full-time writing
300+
articles published
170,000+
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