Learn Flashpage

Flashpageis a notes app for your Windows or Linux computer that keeps everything on your own computer — no accounts, no cloud, no internet required. You write “pages” (notes), and they live as ordinary files in a folder you fully own.

New here? Install Flashpage first — it takes about a minute. After installing, you land on Home — the list of all your pages, with search and browsing. Create your first note with the New note button or Ctrl + N, give it a title, and start writing.

To keep things tidy, each page has one Subject (its main topic or “folder”) and any number of Tags (extra cross-cutting labels). This lets you browse the same notes two ways — by subject or by tag — without filing a note in just one place.

A button next to the logo cycles three views: All pages → By subject → By tag. Inside a folder, press Esc to go back. Star a page to favorite it and it floats to the top.

A notebook is a folder for related pages — a course, a project, a trip. It has a name and one subject (notebooks carry no tags), and it holds as many pages as you like.

Click the Flashpage title at the top of Home, or press Ctrl + Shift + D, to switch to Flashnotebook: a view that shows only your notebooks. Click it again to go back to pages. Your choice is remembered between launches.

• Create one — in Flashnotebook view, press Ctrl + N or click New NB, then give it a name and (optionally) a subject.
• Open one — click its violet card. A panel on the left lists its pages; click one to jump to it, or press Ctrl + N to add a new page inside the notebook.
• Browse by subject — the folder button next to the title groups notebooks by subject.
• Search — searching finds pages inside notebooks too, and badges each result with the notebook it lives in.
• Edit or delete — use the ⋯ menu on a notebook card. Deleting a notebook deletes the pages inside it, so Flashpage asks you to confirm first.

Want to see it first? Try the interactive demo — click the title to flip between pages and notebooks.

Just start typing anywhere on Home — your first keystroke jumps into the search box. Plain words match a page's title, subject, or any tag (partial, case-insensitive).

• #exam — filter by tag
• $biology — filter by subject

Mix them freely, and multi-word filters need no quotes:

photosynthesis #exam $biology

Exact matches show first, then most recently updated. Active filters appear as colored chips. Press Esc to clear.

The editor is WYSIWYG— you format visually, and it's quietly saved as clean Markdown. Fill in the title, subject, and tags at the top; press Enter to advance between them and into the body.

A hideable toolbar gives one-click formatting, and typing / at the start of an empty line opens a quick insert menu for headings, lists, tables, images, and more. See the shortcut reference for the full list.

A slim icon rail (toggle with Ctrl + \) works like a design app such as Canva:

• Elements — tables, dividers, code blocks, quotes, and typeable shapes.
• Images — a gallery of every image you've added; drag files to add more.
• Tools — signature pad, redaction, and reusable [variable] tokens.
• Media — gifs, video, and audio that play right inside a page.

Export any page as PDF (polished and print-ready), editable Word, or plain Markdown. All exports run in the background and land in your Downloads folder. Press Ctrl + Shift + P for a silent, instant PDF.

Bring PDFs in from Home (as a new page) or inside a page — choose Extract text (editable & searchable) or Pages as images (pixel-identical, great for scans).

Open Settings from the gear icon on Home or press Ctrl + ,. Choose a Light / Dark / System theme and an accent tone, set background images and opacity, pick from ~40 built-in fonts and 60+ spellcheck languages, and toggle auto-save, launch-at-login, the slash menu, and default word wrap.

Some choices belong to a single page — its font, language, favorite status, word wrap, and Preview — and are remembered per page.

Flashpage stores everything in its app-data folder — %APPDATA%\com.flashpages.app on Windows, ~/.local/share/com.flashpages.app on Linux:

• notes/ — one .md file per page.
• notes/assets/ — images, media, and signatures.
• backgrounds/ — background images (kept separate).
• index.sqlite — search index; rebuilt automatically, safe to delete.

Because your pages are ordinary Markdown files, backing upFlashpage is as simple as copying that folder.

The Data & Analytics tab turns a page into a lightweight spreadsheet. Type = in any cell for a live, Excel-style formula:

=SUM(B2:B9)

Sort by real value (numbers, %, currency, dates), add total and average rows, import a CSV, and copy a table as CSV. Then insert one of eight chart types — line, bar, horizontal bar, area, scatter, pie, donut, radar — or generate one straight from a table.