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Local-first, plain Markdown

The fast, open home for your linked notes.

A local-first knowledge base that opens your Obsidian vault unchanged. Plain Markdown on your disk, no account, no lock-in.

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Point Fable at an existing vault. It reads the formats you already use:

[[wikilinks]] backlinks #tags properties callouts .canvas .obsidian config

A complete place to write, connect, and find your thinking.

No half-features. The tools you rely on every day, built for speed and honest about what they do. Everything below ships in version 1.

A live-preview editor that stays out of your way.

Markdown renders as you type and turns back into raw text the moment your cursor lands on it. What is saved to disk is exactly what you wrote: plain Markdown, nothing hidden.

  • Live Preview and Source modes

    Switch per note or set a default. Reading view too.

  • Wikilinks with autocomplete

    Type [[ and jump to any note, heading, or block.

  • Tags and properties

    Inline #tags, nested tags, and YAML frontmatter fields.

See how every note connects.

Links you write become a two-way web automatically. Read a note's backlinks, follow its outgoing links, and step back to watch the whole vault take shape in the graph.

  • Backlinks and outgoing links

    Linked and unlinked mentions, ready to convert.

  • Interactive graph view

    Global and local graph, with filters, groups, and forces.

  • Canvas

    An infinite board of cards, files, and typed edges.

Find anything in a keystroke.

Full-text search with real operators, a fuzzy quick switcher, and a command palette that runs every action in the app.

Light, dark, and your accent

Adapt to system, or pick a mode. Set any accent color and it flows through the whole interface.

Canvas

Lay notes out in space on an infinite board. Group them, connect them with typed edges, saved as an open .canvas file.

Properties

Edit frontmatter as typed fields, written straight back to YAML, and searchable by name and value.

Daily notes

One note per day, created from a template on demand.

Templates

Reusable snippets with date, time, and title variables.

Fully custom hotkeys

Every command is remappable. Bind what you use most.

Advanced syntax

Callouts, math, footnotes, tables, and task lists, rendered the way you expect them to look.

See Fable in action.

Real captures from the app, running the built-in demo vault. From the Live Preview editor to the graph, canvas, and search, in both light and dark.

Fable editing the Welcome note in Live Preview: a rendered callout and wikilinks, with the file explorer on the left and the backlinks pane on the right.
Editor Live Preview renders Markdown as you type, with wikilinks, callouts, and live backlinks. What is saved to disk is exactly what you wrote.
Fable graph view showing demo notes as connected nodes, with the graph settings panel open.
Graph Graph view with filters, groups, and adjustable forces.
Fable canvas with cards, an embedded note, and typed edges laid out on an infinite board.
Canvas Canvas lays notes and cards out in space, saved as open JSON Canvas.
Fable full-text search results with highlighted matches beside the matching note open in Live Preview.
Search Full-text search with operators and highlighted matches across the vault.
Fable appearance settings in light theme: base color scheme, accent color swatches, theme, and font controls.
Light theme Appearance settings: base color scheme, accent color, and fonts, applied across the whole interface.
Made for Obsidian vaults

Open your vault. Everything just works.

Point Fable at a folder you already keep in Obsidian and keep writing. There is no import step, no conversion, and no proprietary database in the middle. Your files stay exactly where they are, in the format you already trust.

  • Wikilinks, backlinks, and tags

    Resolved from your files, the moment you open the vault.

  • Frontmatter, callouts, and canvas

    Properties, > [!note] callouts, and .canvas boards render natively.

  • Your .obsidian config is respected

    Unknown settings round-trip untouched, so you can move back anytime.

Built to be fast, and to stay yours.

Fable ships as a native desktop app with a tiny footprint. The important part lives on your disk, in files you can read without it.

3.49 MB
Installer download, about 11 MB installed. Built on Tauri, roughly 20x smaller than a typical Electron app.
~0.9 s
Cold start to a ready window, measured on a real vault.
10k notes
Designed to stay responsive on vaults this large.
$0
Free to download. No account, no telemetry.

Yours

Plain Markdown in a folder you control. Uninstall Fable and every note is still there, still readable.

Private

No account to create, no telemetry, no cloud in the loop. Nothing leaves your machine unless you move it.

Durable

Human-readable text and open formats: Markdown and JSON Canvas. No lock-in, no format you cannot leave.

Fast

A native shell over a web-first core. Sub-second startup and keystrokes that keep up, even on big vaults.

Honest about scope. Fable v1 is a local desktop app for one vault at a time. There is no sync service, no publishing, no plugin marketplace, and no mobile app yet. If those are on your must-have list today, Fable is not there. What is here is a fast, complete editor for your local notes.

Start writing in your vault today.

Free for Windows. Open an existing Obsidian vault or start a fresh one in seconds.

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