ezNote: the notepad that never asks “Save changes?”

What it does

ezNote is as simple as the Windows Notepad, with tabs, and without the questions.

Notes that save themselves: Every new tab is a note in ~/Documents/ezNote, written to disk as you type. No file name, no location, no Save button.
Quit without a question: Close the window or press ⌘Q. Reopen ezNote and the same tabs come back in the same order, with the same tab selected.
Quick to close: An empty tab closes silently. A note with text asks once: Save, Delete or Cancel. Delete moves it to the Trash, so nothing is lost by accident.
Save As when it matters: Give a note a real place and that tab works like a classic editor: a dot marks unsaved changes and ⌘S writes them. Unsaved changes survive a quit and wait for you.
Plain text, nothing else: UTF-8, line wrapping, no smart quotes and no auto-correct. Paste rich text and you get plain text.
Your font, your size: Any font and size in Settings (⌘,). Zoom with ⌘+ and ⌘−. Find with ⌘F.

Open a tab
Press + or ⌘T and start typing. The tab takes its name from the first line.
Walk away
Switch apps, quit, restart your Mac. Each note is already on disk; nothing waits for a Save.
Keep what matters
When a note earns a real home, use Save As. Done with a note? Close the tab and choose Delete.

ezNote asks something only when you close a tab that still has text in it. Empty tabs just go away.

Quitting never asks. Whatever you were writing is there when you come back.

Never asks when you quit. Notes are written as you type and saved again on quit. The next launch brings every tab back.
Never hides your notes. Each note is a plain .txt file in your Documents folder. Open it with any editor, back it up any way you like.
Never deletes for good. Deleting a note moves it to the Trash. Only empty notes are removed outright.
Never overwrites a file you did not save. Changes to a saved file are written only on ⌘S. Until then they are kept aside, even across a quit.
Never talks to the internet. There is no networking code in the app. No account, no cloud, no analytics.
Never changes your text. No smart quotes, no auto-correct, no formatting. What you type is what is saved.

All of this lives in code you can read: the tab and file rules are in Sources/NotepadCore, covered by unit tests. See the source on GitHub.

Signed and notarized by Apple. Open the disk image and drag ezNote to Applications. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.