Welcome to Accent
Accent brings notes, code, PDFs and drawings into one workspace. A vault is an ordinary folder of files: your files stay yours, and other apps can edit them too. The desktop app runs on Linux, with an Android companion for editing notes and reading PDFs.
What you can do
- Connect notes and sources. Follow wikilinks, tags and backlinks, embed drawings, and link a selected PDF passage to a note. The link takes you back to the passage.
- Work directly on documents. Annotate and rearrange PDF pages, edit draw.io diagrams on a native canvas, and move between LaTeX source and its PDF with SyncTeX.
- Keep development in the same window. Edit code, run Jupyter cells, review and resolve Git changes, and return to terminal sessions after closing the window.
- Work where the files live. Open a vault over SSH with search, Git and tools running on its host, or let an agent use the vault through the command line and MCP server.
Install and open a vault
Download the Flatpak bundle from the latest release, then install it with:
flatpak install --user accent-<version>-x86_64.flatpak
For a native install on a recent GNOME Linux system, use the installer:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stroblme/accent/main/install.sh | bash
Open Accent and choose Open Local… to use a folder you already have, or make a new one in the folder chooser. Accent will show its files in the sidebar and start indexing them for search and links. The files remain ordinary files in that folder.
You can also open a folder from a terminal with accent ~/Notes.
See The workspace for the window, tabs and file tree, or start with your first note.
For a folder on another machine, see Remote hosts.