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:

---
title: "Your Blog Post Title"
date: 2026-05-07 10:00:00
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

• View and edit your notes
• ⌘ + N - Create a new note
• ⌘ + ⇧ + C - Copy note body
• ^ + ⇧ + X - Delete a note
• ⌘ + T - Quick apply / remove tag
• ⌘ + ⇧ + T - Create a new tag
• ⌘ + F - Filter by tag
• ^ + ⇧ + T - Delete tags
• ⌘ + M - Toggle note metadata
• ⌘ + S - Sort notes
• ⌘ + I - Summarize note with AI
• ⌘ + ⇧ + I - Clear AI summary

Create Note

• title - Title of note
• note - Body of note

Create Tag

• tag - Name of tag

Search Notes

• text - 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

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)