ZenNotes

ZenNotes 2.0 is all about templates — plus a more flexible workspace and a friendlier note-creation flow.

✨ Templates

Stop rebuilding the same note structures by hand.

• Built-in engineering templates — ADR, RFC / Design Doc, Bug Report, Postmortem, Meeting Notes, and 1:1.
• Built-in personal templates — Daily Note, Weekly Review, Reading Notes, Journal, Project Kickoff, and a To-do checklist.
• Your own templates — saved as plain Markdown files in .zennotes/templates/, so they live in your vault and version with it.
• Smart variables — {{title}}, {{date}}, {{date:FORMAT}}, {{time}}, {{week}} (ISO week), and {{cursor}} (where your caret lands) are filled in the moment a note is created.
• A real template editor — Vim motions, the / slash menu, {{ variable autocomplete, a variables legend, and a live preview side by side.
• Flexible flows — create a new note from a template, insert a template into the note you're already in, or save the current note as a reusable template.
• Daily & weekly notes — each can use a template of your choosing; weekly notes (YYYY-Www) join the existing daily notes.

🧩 Workspace & navigation

• Resizable panels — the outline, connections, and comments panels can now be dragged to any width, like the pinned reference pane.
• Recent commands — the command palette now surfaces your most recently used commands at the top.
• Choose where new notes go — the sidebar's + buttons now let you create at the vault root or in any folder, instead of guessing for you.
• Create at the root — right-click the empty area of the NOTES list to add a note or folder at the top level.

🐛 Fixes

• Note titles are sanitized on create, so templates with a / in their name (e.g. RFC / Design Doc) no longer fail.

Download the installer for your platform from the assets below (macOS, Windows, Linux).