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Fast, private, portable notebook for Windows 11. OCR-searchable screenshots, Myanmar-aware search, themes, export, voice reader. C# WinUI 3.

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<h1 align="center">📓 My Notebook</h1>

A fast, private, local-first notebook for Windows 11. 
 Rich notes, screenshot threads with OCR-searchable images, math equations, a Myanmar-aware
 search that actually works, color themes, and export anywhere, all in a portable folder.
 No account. No cloud. Your notes stay yours.

<a href="../../releases">⬇️ Download</a>
 &nbsp;·&nbsp;
 <a href="docs/USER_GUIDE.md">📖 User Guide</a>

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## ⬇️ Download
![GitHub all releases](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/aungkokomm/MyNotebook/total)

Head to the [**Releases**](../../releases) page and run the latest
`MyNotebook_Setup_vX.Y.Z.exe`. It installs **without admin rights**, runs **portable**, and
**never touches your data** on upgrade. First launch even comes with a few sample notes.

> 📖 **New here, or not sure how a feature works? Read the [User Guide](docs/USER_GUIDE.md)** — a
> plain-language, task-by-task walkthrough of everything the app does.

## 🤔 Why another note app?

Because the popular ones each ask you to give something up:

- **Notion / Evernote** keep your notes on *their* servers, behind an account, syncing whether you
  like it or not. My Notebook has **no account, no cloud, no telemetry**. Your notes are plain files
  in a folder you control.
- **Obsidian / Notion** are Electron apps that feel heavy on Windows. This is a **native WinUI 3 app**
  that starts fast and stays light.
- **OneNote and Apple Notes** can search text in images too, but OneNote leans on the Microsoft cloud
  and account, and Apple's Live Text is locked to the Apple ecosystem. My Notebook OCR-indexes every
  screenshot **fully offline, no account**, in a screenshot-thread workflow built for Windows.
- **Almost none of them search Myanmar properly.** Myanmar text has no spaces between words, so normal
  full-text search misses it. My Notebook pairs a trigram index with full-text search so it finds a
  word **in the middle of a Myanmar sentence**, and partial words in any language.

If you want a notebook that is **fast, private, genuinely yours, and actually finds what you wrote**,
including in Burmese and inside screenshots, that gap is the reason this exists.

## 🖼️ Screenshots

## ✨ Why you'll like it

- **It's yours.** Everything lives in a portable `Data/` folder next to the app. Copy it to a
  USB stick, sync it with your own cloud folder, or back it up as a `.zip`. No sign-in, no telemetry.
- **Search that finds things.** A hybrid full-text plus trigram index finds a word **in the middle
  of spaceless Myanmar text**, partial words, and even **text inside your screenshots** (OCR).
  Ranked results, highlighted snippets, jump-to-match, and operators like `"phrase"`, `-exclude`,
  `title:`, `tag:`, `type:`.
- **A real editor.** Headings, bold, italic, underline, colors, highlight, lists and checklists,
  tables, links, quotes, code blocks, alignment, and markdown shortcuts. Find and replace highlights
  every match with a live counter, and a word count sits in the corner.
- **Math that just works.** Paste an equation from Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude and it renders as real
  math, not raw text. Write your own with a live preview. Powered by KaTeX, fully offline.
- **Images done right.** Paste a screenshot and it lands inline at **full resolution**. Resize it from
  any corner (with snapping), wrap text around it, or drag it to a new spot. Transparent PNGs stay clean.
- **A workspace, not a list.** A **two-pane drawer** (folders rail plus note list) you can collapse
  either side of, **multi-select** notes to move, pin, or delete in bulk, drag notes onto folders, and
  a **Timeline** to browse everything by date.
- **Made beautiful, in your language.** Light and dark plus **eight color themes** that recolor the
  whole UI, with an intensity dial. The interface speaks **English or Portuguese** (more to come), and
  there is a distraction-free focus mode when you need it.

## 🧰 Everything it does

| | |
|---|---|
| 🗂️ **Workspace** | Two-pane drawer (folders plus note list), collapsible panels, multi-select with bulk move/pin/delete, drag-to-folder, duplicate, sort |
| ✍️ **Rich editor** | Undo/redo, headings and styles, bold/italic/underline/strike, super and subscript, text color, highlight, fonts, alignment, indent, clear formatting, bullet/numbered/checklists, quote, code block, divider, markdown shortcuts, and Word-style keyboard shortcuts |
| 🔢 **Tables & links** | Insert and edit tables (add or remove rows and columns, header row), hyperlinks, `[[wiki-links]]`, and backlinks |
| 🧮 **Math (KaTeX)** | Paste equations from AI chats and they render (LaTeX or MathML, including fractions, integrals, sums, and matrices); insert and edit your own with a live preview; fully offline |
| 🖼️ **Images** | Paste full-resolution inline, insert from a file, or drag and drop from Explorer; resize from corners with snapping, wrap text (inline / left / right / own line), drag to reposition, transparent-PNG friendly, 100% floating viewer |
| 🖼️ **Screenshot threads** | Paste (Ctrl+V) into a connected **timeline rail** of numbered nodes, drag-to-reorder, OCR-indexed, export all |
| 🔎 **Search** | Hybrid FTS5 plus trigram (Myanmar, substring, and OCR text), operators, highlighted results, jump-to-match |
| 🔗 **Web clipper** | OneNote-style paste that keeps the source URL, with the article's formatting and images kept offline |
| 🎨 **Themes & paper** | Light/dark plus 8 color themes, intensity slider, custom page colors, and paper styles (ruled, grid, dotted, notebook) |
| 🌐 **Language** | English and Portuguese, switchable in Settings |
| 📤 **Export** | PDF, Word `.docx`, self-contained HTML ("publish as a web page"), Markdown, and print |
| 🔊 **Voice** | Read a note aloud (TTS) and record audio into a note |
| 🛟 **Backup & restore** | Back up to a `.zip`, restore from a backup, automatic rolling snapshots, version history with restore, and a soft-delete trash |
| 🕓 **Timeline** | Browse every note by date, grouped into Today / Yesterday / this month / older |
| ⚡ **Polish** | Focus mode, pin/tag/move, close-to-tray, global Quick Note hotkey, and a settings window that fits its content |

## 🔒 Where your notes live (and why they're safe)

My Notebook is **fully portable and offline**. Every note, screenshot, tag, and setting is stored
in a plain **`Data/` folder right next to the app**. No cloud, no account, no database server.
That means:

- **Uninstalling or re-downloading the app does *not* delete your notes.** The uninstaller removes
  the program but **leaves your `Data/` folder intact**. Reinstall to the same folder and everything
  is exactly where you left it.
- **Moving to a new PC?** Copy the app folder (or just its `Data/` folder) across, and notes, images,
  and folders all come with it. You can even run it straight off a USB stick.
- **Back up anytime** from **Settings → Back up to `.zip`**, and **restore** just as easily from
  **Settings → Restore from backup** (a `.zip` or an automatic snapshot). You can also copy the
  `Data/` folder to a USB drive or a cloud-synced folder.

> ⚠️ Because your notes live **only on your machine**, they are as safe as your machine. If your
> drive fails and you have no copy, they are gone, so keep the app (or its `Data/` folder) somewhere
> that gets backed up, or take a `.zip` backup now and then. Your notes are *yours*, which also means
> their safety is in your hands, not a company's servers.

## 🔄 Updates are manual (on purpose)

My Notebook **doesn't update itself**, and that's a deliberate choice, not a missing feature.

Auto-updaters work by silently **downloading and running a new executable** in the background. That is
exactly the behaviour antivirus engines and **VirusTotal** treat as suspicious, so self-updating apps
routinely get **false-positive malware flags** and scary SmartScreen warnings. To keep My Notebook
clean, transparent, and trustworthy, there is simply no auto-update machinery to flag.

Instead, updating is a 30-second manual step:
1. Open **About → Check for updates** (or the [Releases](../../releases) page).
2. Download the latest `MyNotebook_Setup_vX.Y.Z.exe` and run it **over your current install**.
3. Your `Data/` folder is never touched, so all your notes carry straight over.

The app shows a clear in-app reminder of this, and keeps **rolling local backups** of your notes
(`Data/Backups/`) just in case.

## 🛠️ Tech

**C# / .NET 8** · **WinUI 3** (Windows App SDK, self-contained and unpackaged) · **SQLite + FTS5**
with a trigram index · **WebView2** editor · **KaTeX** (offline math) · `Windows.Media.Ocr` ·
QuestPDF / PdfSharp (PDF) and OpenXML (`.docx`). Core logic lives in `MyNotebook.Core` (no WinUI
dependency) and is covered by xUnit tests.

```
MyNotebook/
├─ db/migrations/     SQLite schema + migrations (embedded at build)
├─ db/seed/           self-verifying seed-DB builder (sample notes + screenshots)
├─ installer/         Inno Setup script (portable, lowest-privilege)
├─ src/
│  ├─ MyNotebook.Core/   net8.0: models, services, SQLite, search (unit-tested)
│  ├─ MyNotebook.App/    WinUI 3: UI, editor, OCR, export
│  └─ MyNotebook.Tests/  xUnit: services, search, versioning, backup/restore
└─ screenshots/
```

## 🏗️ Build from source

Requires **Windows 11 x64** and the **.NET 8 SDK**. Build the WinUI app with **Visual Studio
MSBuild**, not `dotnet build`, because the .NET CLI MSBuild lacks the WinUI PRI-packaging task
(`MSB4062`).

```powershell
# Run the Core tests (works anywhere with .NET 8)
dotnet test src/MyNotebook.Tests/MyNotebook.Tests.csproj

# Build & publish the portable, self-contained app (Windows)
& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe" `
  src/MyNotebook.App/MyNotebook.App.csproj -t:Publish `
  -p:Configuration=Release -p:Platform=x64 -p:RuntimeIdentifier=win-x64 `
  -p:SelfContained=true -p:WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=true -p:WindowsPackageType=None `
  -p:PublishDir=bin/publish/win-x64/

# Build the installer (optional, needs Inno Setup 6)
& "C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6\ISCC.exe" installer/MyNotebook.iss
```
The published folder is portable, so copy it anywhere. On first run the app writes to `.\Data\`
next to the exe, falling back to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\MyNotebook` if that is read-only.

## ⌨️ Shortcuts

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| `Ctrl+F` / `Ctrl+K` | Focus search |
| `Ctrl+H` | Find and replace in the note |
| `Ctrl+Z` / `Ctrl+Y` | Undo / redo |
| `Ctrl+B` / `Ctrl+I` / `Ctrl+U` | Bold / italic / underline |
| `Ctrl+L` / `Ctrl+E` / `Ctrl+R` / `Ctrl+J` | Align left / center / right / justify |
| `Ctrl+M` / `Ctrl+Shift+M` | Increase / decrease indent |
| `Ctrl+Alt+1` / `Ctrl+Alt+2` / `Ctrl+Alt+0` | Title / heading / body |
| `Ctrl+N` | New note |
| `Ctrl+T` | New screenshot thread |
| `Ctrl+V` | Paste an image (inline in a note, or a card in a thread) |
| `Ctrl+Shift+V` | Paste as plain text |
| `F11` / `Esc` | Toggle / leave focus mode |
| `Win+Alt+N` | Quick Note (global, optional) |

## 📄 License

Released under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

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