Slote

Your diagram and your notes, finally on one page.

Draw and type on the same page.

Sketch the diagram, type the explanation, keep it in one note — synced across your phone, tablet, and laptop, and encrypted on your device.

Made for students and note-takers who think with a pen and a keyboard.

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  • Offline-first
  • Optional account
  • Encrypted on-device

iOS · Android · Windows · macOS

The gap

Today your diagram lives in one app and your notes in another. The idea lives in neither.

The journey

One note, from the first line to handed in.

Not a tour of seven features. One page, and everything it picks up along the way.

  1. Write it

    Start typing. It is a real editor.

    Headings, lists, quotes, links, tables, and a formatting toolbar that stays on screen while you write. Not a text field with a bold button.

    A note open in the Slote desktop editor — a note tab, a formatting toolbar, and the typed heading and list on the page
    A note open in the Slote desktop editor — a note tab, a formatting toolbar, and the typed heading and list on the page

  2. Draw on it

    Sketch under the paragraph you just wrote.

    Pen, highlighter, eraser and lasso live on the same canvas as the text — not in a separate scribble mode you have to leave. Pressure when your stylus supports it.

    A Slote study note in drawing mode — a pen underline on one bullet, a highlighter band on the next, and a hand-drawn three-box flow under the typed text
    A Slote study note in drawing mode — a pen underline on one bullet, a highlighter band on the next, and a hand-drawn three-box flow under the typed text

  3. Structure it

    Build the revision table. Sketch beside it.

    A table is a table, not a screenshot of one. Import Markdown when you are moving notes in from somewhere else.

    A Slote exam-revision note with a heading, bulleted list, and a subject/topic/confidence table
    A Slote exam-revision note with a heading, bulleted list, and a subject/topic/confidence table

  4. Feed it the handout

    Drop the lecture PDF in and write on it.

    The PDF becomes the page you annotate, not an attachment you open elsewhere. Underline the step, ring the deadline, hand it back out as PDF.

    An imported lecture handout PDF in Slote with a pen underline under one step and “24 hours” ringed
    An imported lecture handout PDF in Slote with a pen underline under one step and “24 hours” ringed

  5. Find it again

    Four letters and the note is open.

    Search runs over bodies as well as titles, so you can find a note by something you wrote inside it. Folders, pinned and archive keep the list short.

    Slote search for “resp” listing the two notes whose bodies mention respiration
    Slote search for “resp” listing the two notes whose bodies mention respiration

  6. Carry it

    Sketch on your tablet. Type on your laptop. One note.

    Changes queue while you're offline and sync when you're back. Note content is encrypted on your device before it leaves.

    The same Slote note open on phone and tablet — cell respiration with a three-stage flow sketch
    The same Slote note open on phone and tablet — cell respiration with a three-stage flow sketch

Every screen

The same notes, shaped for the screen you are on.

Not one layout stretched three ways. The desktop gets a sidebar, the tablet gets two columns, the phone gets your thumb.

Slote on macOS — a folder sidebar with a New note button beside a grid of six note cards under a morning greeting
Slote on macOS — a folder sidebar with a New note button beside a grid of six note cards under a morning greeting

Laptop

macOS and Windows

A folder sidebar you can keep open, the note grid beside it, and a new page on ⌘N.

The Slote note gallery — a morning greeting, a search field, and six note cards across two columns
The Slote note gallery — a morning greeting, a search field, and six note cards across two columns

Tablet

iPad and Android tablets

The same list, two columns wide, with the search field where your hand already is.

The Slote home screen on iPhone — a morning greeting, a search field, and note cards in two columns
The Slote home screen on iPhone — a morning greeting, a search field, and note cards in two columns

Phone

iOS and Android

Greeting, search, notes two-up, and one button to start writing.

iOS · Android · Windows · macOS at launch.

Anatomy

Everything the note needs, in one row.

The desktop toolbar, enlarged. Every one of these is on the row while you write, not buried in a menu.

The Slote desktop formatting toolbar — undo and redo, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, paragraph style, font, size, colour, alignment, three list styles, quote, link, image, table, divider, and the drawing toggle
The Slote desktop formatting toolbar — undo and redo, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, paragraph style, font, size, colour, alignment, three list styles, quote, link, image, table, divider, and the drawing toggle
  1. 1Undo and redoStroke by stroke, word by word.
  2. 2Paragraph styleHeadings, body, quote — then font, size and colour.
  3. 3Three list stylesBulleted, numbered, and a task list you can tick.
  4. 4Tables and imagesA real table and a real image, on the page.
  5. 5Switch to inkOne press and the same page takes a pen.

Privacy

We can’t read your notes.

Note content is encrypted on your device before it syncs, and we don’t hold a key for it. Encryption covers what a note says, not the facts about it: folder names, timestamps, sizes and your sharing list stay readable to us. The policy enumerates every field.

See what we can and can’t see
  • Encrypted on your device
  • Works with no account at all
  • Export to PDF, Markdown or one file

Also in the box

The rest of it, without the tour.

  • Full-text searchTitles and bodies, with match-case and whole-word
  • Folders, pinned, archiveGroup a subject; keep the list short
  • PDF importA lecture handout becomes the page you write on
  • ExportPDF, Markdown, PNG, or one portable .slote file
  • Markdown importMove in from notes you already wrote
  • Offline-firstWorks with no account at all
  • On-device encryptionNote content is sealed before it syncs
  • No ads, no ad trackersNothing to sell, so we do not

Built in public

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