Notesage

Read it later. Or listen.

Send an article to Notesage and it becomes a file in your own folder — one you can read on the train, hear on a walk, and still open in ten years.

Try it on iPhone Mac app TestFlight now · App Store soon

It remembers where you stopped

Every saved article shows how far you got and roughly how long is left. Come back a week later and the list tells you, instead of asking.

An article row reading one of two minutes left, with a progress bar under it

Or hear it instead

Tap the headphones on any row. Articles and notes both, read aloud from where you left off — and your place is the same whether you read it or heard it.

An article row being read aloud, its control showing a pause button inside a progress ring

Your pile, your order

Two taps change how the whole library reads. Covers instead of filenames, grouped by what you pinned or by when you saved it — sorted the way you were already thinking about it.

Nothing here is a feed. The order is a setting, not an algorithm, and it stays where you put it.

Search that reads

Not just filenames. Titles, the site it came from, and the opening line — so "that thing from The Margin" is a search you can actually run.

Sixteen items, then nine, then five — and every one of the five came from the same publication.

The hardest part of thinking is not the thinking itself, but holding still long enough for a thought to arrive.

Underneath, it is just your folder

No database, no account, no export button — because there is nothing to export from. Notes are markdown files, articles are HTML files, and everything the app remembers sits beside them in plain text.

Notesage/
├── Essays/
├── Inbox/ — saved articles
│   └── .notesage/reading-progress.json
├── Weekly review.md
└── .notesage/pins.json

Point the Mac app and the iPhone app at the same folder and they agree — pins, reading progress, folder colours and all.

And the rest of it

Works on a plane

Saved articles are on your device. No signal needed to read them.

Share sheet capture

Send a page from Safari and it arrives as a readable file, images and all.

Folders you recognise

Give a folder an icon and colour on the Mac; the phone shows the same one.

Voice notes

Record straight into your library, kept beside everything else.

Search that reads

Titles, sites and opening lines — not just filenames.

No account

Nothing to sign up for, and nothing of yours on a server of ours.

Get it

iPhone

In TestFlight now, heading for the App Store.

Request an invite →

Mac

A signed build for Apple silicon that updates itself.

Download the .dmg →

Source

Open source. Issues and pull requests welcome.

View on GitHub →