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tpaper

A terminal-based note-taking app built around the idea of buffers and blocks.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository: command-line use, Markdown support, syntax highlighting and keyboard shortcuts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A terminal-based note-taking app built around the idea of buffers and blocks.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Yes its a heynote rip-off for the terminal with less features. • Buffer — a named collection of blocks, stored as a Markdown file on disk.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Roughly analogous to a notebook or a tab. • Block — an individual note within a buffer, written in Markdown and rendered with syntax highlighting in the terminal. • ctrl+h — opens the keymaps menu • i — Edit the…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Keybindings & Features.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of tpaper is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub yagnikpt/tpaper (MIT)

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