Welcome

What knowdust is, how it works, and where to start — a markdown notebook that keeps every version of every note.

knowdust is a markdown notebook that keeps every version of everything you write. You log in, you write, and every save is quietly kept — so you can always go back to how a note looked an hour ago, or a year ago.

There is nothing to install and nothing to configure. If you can type, you can use knowdust.

New here?

Two pages get you from zero to writing:

• Quickstart — sign up, write your first note, and see version history work. Five minutes.
• Markdown basics — never heard of markdown, or unsure what # and ** mean? Start here. No experience assumed.

The short version of how knowdust works

You write in markdown — plain text with a few simple symbols for headings, bold, and lists. Your notes are real text files, not entries locked inside a database.

While you write, knowdust saves automatically. Each save becomes a version — a snapshot of the note at that moment. Open the history rail and you can read or restore any earlier version. Restoring never deletes anything; it just brings the old text back as a new version. Nothing you write in knowdust is ever silently lost.

And your notes are always yours: you can export everything as a .zip at any time, on any plan.

Find your way around

• The editor — write, split, and preview modes, autosave, focused writing.
• Version history — browsing, previewing, and restoring old versions.
• Organizing and search — notes, folders, and finding things.
• Export — getting your files out, one note or all of them.
• Keyboard shortcuts — the whole list.
• Plans and billing — what's free, what Plus adds, refunds.
• FAQ — honest answers to common questions.

If something here doesn't match what you see in the app, that's a bug in the docs — tell us.

Something on this page wrong or unclear? Tell us — it'll be fixed.