Origin story
I love retro tech aesthetic and wanted to make a journaling/note making app for terminals. YapPad does that and provides image rendering as well
Overview
A terminal-based note-taking app with image rendering and theming
A TUI Note/Journal making app with image rendering and theming :D
From the maintainer
Maintainer profileyappad
I love retro tech aesthetic and wanted to make a journaling/note making app for terminals. YapPad does that and provides support for image rendering
A terminal-based note-taking app with image rendering and theming
First workflow
The app allows note/file creation with description input. An inbuilt editor support is also provided along with toggle preview for reading or toggling image preview
Design choice
Minimalistic and keyboard centric approach. Also has an implementation for handling image and note preview rendering for different terminal sizes
Roadmap
Adding a file system for better folder navigation
Maintainer install notes
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Latest Release
v1.3.0
Released: Jun 27, 2026Built-In Menu for themes and Editor selection
Instead of going into the config or using flags just press the , key and change it in the settings.
The file browser section is still in progress, hopefully will be completed by next month
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f149141-eb64-4e25-9cd2-26557f2f0cf9
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