Local-first project notes

A workspace that stays yours.

A macOS-only notes & task manager for freelance developers, with your Markdown files as the single source of truth. No cloud, no account.

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macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon / Intel · signed & notarized

A quiet place to work, free of noise.

Atelie feels like a café table. No sync spinners, no flood of notifications — just today's work, quietly in front of you.

Atelie home screen showing today's tasks

Views for everyday work

Kanban you can drag

Drag a card and the status writes straight back into the Markdown frontmatter. The board isn't a layer on top — it is the files.

Deadlines at a glance

A month view built from frontmatter due dates, color-coded per project so overlapping deadlines are obvious.

Built like a developer tool

Full-text search

Fast full-text search powered by SQLite FTS5 trigram tokenizer — Japanese included.

File watching

Edits from external editors are picked up automatically — use Vim or VS Code on the same files.

Built-in terminal

Run commands right beside your notes, without leaving your project.

Dark mode

A deep-coffee dark theme that's easy on the eyes at night.

Only on your Mac

Nothing ever leaves your Mac.

Fully offline. No account required.

•Notes and tasks live entirely on your Mac
•No sign-up, no login
•No tracking or analytics
•Works exactly the same with no network connection

Markdown is the source of truth

Your data outlives the app.

Your data is just Markdown files under ~/Atelie/projects/, openable in any editor. Because they're plain files, you can version and back them up with your own git / gh — no lock-in.

Note: Atelie doesn't sync for you — the files are plain, so your own git just works.

What a note actually is (YAML frontmatter + Markdown)

---
id: t-001
project: atelie-dev
title: Fix product detail page design
status: doing
priority: high
due: 2026-04-29
tags: [frontend, design]
---

## Background

Reflect the feedback from [[2026-04-24-meeting]].

- [ ] Subtask 1
- [x] Subtask 2

A quiet workspace after dark.

A deep-coffee dark theme to support late, focused hours.

Requirements & install

Download

Download the latest .dmg from GitHub Releases and mount it.

Drag

Drag Atelie.app into your Applications folder.

Launch

Double-click to launch — then open it anytime from Launchpad or Spotlight.

OS: macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
Architecture: Apple Silicon / Intel (universal binary)
Disk: From 50MB (depends on note count)

Signed with Apple Developer ID, notarized and stapled — it opens with no Gatekeeper warning.