Local-first markdown notes — your knowledge base is a folder of plain .md files you own.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Notion, at $12/mo per seat — roughly $144 a year, every year. Quillpad does the job for a one-time $29 — running locally on your own machine.
Notes are real .md files, folders are folders. Edit them in any other app — Quillpad watches the disk and refreshes live.
For freelancers, your vault is just a folder pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
CodeMirror 6 with inline preview styling — sized headings, rendered bold/italic, highlighted code. Ctrl+E toggles full preview.
For freelancers, live-styled markdown editor pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
Type [[ for fuzzy autocomplete over every note; aliases supported; missing notes are created on click. Every note shows who links to it, with context.
For freelancers, [[Wikilinks]] + backlinks pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
One-time $29 for the signed one-click Windows installer with auto-updates.
Use the starter vault under Documents or pick any existing folder of markdown — it just works, live.
Wikilinks with autocomplete, backlinks with context, daily notes on Ctrl+D, and quick capture from anywhere in Windows.
Quillpad is $29, once. Notion at $12/mo per seat — roughly $144 a year, every year. Two and a half months of one Notion seat pays for Quillpad — and your notes stop being hostages.
Two and a half months of one Notion seat pays for Quillpad — and your notes stop being hostages. Quillpad costs $29 once; Notion charges $12/mo per seat — about $144 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/quillpad-notes-mvp, always. $29 buys the signed installer with auto-updates.
Your vault is a plain folder, so any file sync works: Dropbox, Google Drive, Syncthing, git. There's no built-in sync service — that's a feature, not a gap: it's why there's no account and no monthly fee. If you want turnkey encrypted mobile sync, Obsidian Sync is good at that.