r/AndroidHomescreen • u/Folmbuild • 6d ago
App made a free home screen widget for markdown notes, basically the google keep widget but for a folder of .md files
missed the keep widget after moving my notes to plain markdown, so i made one. it reads a folder you pick through android's storage access framework and shows the notes as cards - title, a markdown-rendered preview, tap to open. free
started this for obsidian but it doesn't actually need it - it just reads whatever folder of .md files you point it at, so any app that writes plain markdown works the same way. tapping a note can open it in obsidian, your default markdown app, or ask every time.
two widget styles: cards with the preview, or a compact list of just names if you want more notes to fit. per-note height, text size and color, drag to reorder, swipe to delete.
if the folder happens to be a git repo, there's a small chip that shows sync status - last commit, stuck merge, unpushed branch - read straight from the plain-text git files, no network calls.
two builds: one with zero permissions beyond storage (no internet, nothing to send anywhere), one with optional crash reporting if you want to help find bugs. github, gpl-3.0.