Fractal Note

What Fractal Note is

Fractal Note is a note-taking environment inside VS Code that combines a WYSIWYG Markdown editor with outliner, database, mindmap, and file-manager views. Notes are stored as plain Markdown and JSON files, organized through a virtual folder and file tree. Full-text search covers outlines, Markdown pages, and supported PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments. Its built-in viewer handles Office documents, PDFs, HTML, images, and text or code files. A Chrome extension clips web pages into an outliner or Markdown and writes them to disk through the File System Access API. Published AI skills allow agents to search, read, and write notes; the README names Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, and Antigravity as supported AI IDEs for installing those skills. The MIT-licensed extension is free to use in personal projects, and core features work without AWS. Bidirectional S3 sync and Amazon Translate require AWS credentials configured in VS Code. Connections for those services through an HTTP(S) proxy are not currently supported. Navigation includes backlinks, collapse and expand, subtree scoping, and filtering, with PDF and Markdown export.