Notes, writing & knowledge

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Quill is a local-first workspace for notes, writing, planning, structured knowledge, and personal reference — designed to grow from a quick thought into a deeper system without forcing your work into the cloud.

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Quill development status

Quill 0.20.6 is the current development build. The sections below separate completed work, the 0.21.0 milestone in progress, and later roadmap plans.

Finished in development builds

A substantial local-first foundation is already working

Quill has moved well beyond a basic notes prototype. Core writing, organization, discovery, structured-data, customization, and accessibility systems are already implemented through the 0.17 development milestone.

  • Rich Notes & dependable local storage
    Visual rich-text editing, formatting, autosave, lifecycle-safe writes, SQLite persistence, stable UUID identities, schema migrations, WAL journaling, and recovery-minded persistence behavior.
  • Workspaces, notebooks & note organization
    Separate workspaces and notebooks, note lifecycle tools, favorites, tags and relationships, flexible creation presets, and searchable built-in starters for many everyday note types.
  • Search, discovery & relationships
    Indexed search, note relationships, internal [[Note]] links, aliases, backlinks, unresolved-link handling, and discovery surfaces that build on Quill's canonical note model.
  • Daily Notes & Calendar
    Daily-note notebooks with intentional date-based creation, month and agenda views, restore-aware navigation, and locale-aware calendar behavior.
  • Core Wiki Mode
    Workspace-wide or scoped Wiki Mode, generated Wiki Home views, recent pages, favorites, index and search, page summaries and priority, backlinks, wanted/broken links, orphan pages, and highly linked pages.
  • Flows
    Kanban-style Flow boards with ordered lanes and cards, rich card details, references, persistence, and shared Quill foundations rather than a separate isolated task system.
  • Databases Part 1
    Canonical Rich Note-backed records, typed properties, Table and List saved views, filters, multi-sort, grouping, summaries, saved-view management, relations, rollups, formulas, and recoverable record archiving.
  • Built-in templates & repeatable note actions
    A searchable built-in template gallery, notebook defaults, structured starters, contextual repeatable sections for maintenance, reading and travel notes, plus canonical horizontal rules.
  • Themes, shortcuts & adaptable interface
    Multiple theme foundations, custom color controls, responsive desktop/compact layouts, resizable panes, shortcut remapping with conflict feedback, and settings built to remain predictable as Quill grows.
  • Accessibility & localization foundations
    Keyboard navigation, visible focus treatment, reduced-motion and contrast considerations, English/Spanish/Arabic localization foundations, right-to-left layouts, and locale-aware presentation.
In progress · 0.21.0

Specialized Modes — Journal / Life + Story / Writing

The next Quill milestone composes the mature editor, Daily Notes, Calendar, Wiki, Databases, Flows, media, Tables, commands, references, and bounded notebook organization into two lightweight workflow modes.

Journal / Life Mode

Compose Daily Notes, Calendar, templates, Wiki relationships, media, and bounded notebook organization into a calm local-first space for personal routines, reflection, and life administration.

Story / Writing Mode

Compose canonical Notes with optional Databases, Flows, Tables, references, and focused writing structure for drafting, research, revision, and longer-form projects.

Shared mode composition

Keep both Modes lightweight: they reshape navigation and defaults around a workflow while continuing to use Quill's existing canonical Notes, persistence, search, and export boundaries.

Mode polish & safe boundaries

Validate accessibility, localization, responsive behavior, migrations, portability expectations, and clear exits back to ordinary Quill work before expanding the Mode surface.

Planned roadmap

What comes after Specialized Modes

These milestones follow the 0.21.0 Mode compositions. They are roadmap directions rather than promised release dates, and scope or ordering may change as the real workflows mature.

  • 0.22.0 · Full Import / Export + Backup
    Build portability around the actual near-term Quill surface: rich media, captured pages, tables, references, bounded notebook hierarchy, and Mode metadata with readable fallbacks.
  • 0.22.1 · Performance & Scale
    Profile larger libraries, image-heavy and captured-page Notes, table-heavy Notes, deeper hierarchy fixtures, and representative Journal / Life and Story / Writing workflows.
  • 0.23.0 · General Quill Home Expansion
    Expand Global and Workspace Home using the proven dashboard foundation, with useful deep links into nested content but no ownership of hierarchy persistence.
  • 0.24.0 · Canvas + Browser Capture / Saved Sources
    Add mature visual-workspace and source-capture surfaces on top of canonical Notes, references, attachments, import, and capture contracts.
  • 0.25.0 · Parity / Readiness Sweep
    Identify and close cross-platform, interaction, accessibility, localization, migration, reliability, and product-consistency gaps before late-stage release work.
  • 0.26.0 · Statistics & Insights
    Extend local statistics and insight surfaces for useful understanding of writing, Modes, and Quill usage without turning personal work into remote analytics.
  • 0.27.0 · Ultrawide & Adaptive Layout
    Improve large-display use, adaptive layouts, and split-view workflows for working with multiple pieces of Quill content side by side.
  • 0.28.0 · Reusable Note Templates
    Add user-owned reusable Note structures after real Journal / Life, Story / Writing, Wiki, Daily Notes, and other workflows are proven.
  • 0.29.0 · Sync & Collaboration Integration
    Integrate mature local features with the existing dormant sync foundations while preserving canonical IDs, local ownership, and safe offline behavior.
  • 0.30.0 · Advanced Wiki & 1.0 Gate
    Finish advanced Wiki capabilities, workflow polish, release-readiness validation, and the remaining deterministic work required for Quill's eventual 1.0 gate.
  • Post-1.0 · AI Writing Assistance
    Explore optional AI writing capabilities only after the pre-1.0 product contract, privacy boundary, and local-first foundations are mature.

Designed around the work, not the service

The roadmap can grow, but these principles are intended to stay stable.

Local-first

Core notes and organization remain useful without requiring a hosted service just to open or manage your own work.

One connected content model

Notes, databases, flows, wiki relationships, templates, media, search, and future capture features are designed to reuse shared Quill foundations rather than become disconnected mini-apps.

Ownership & portability

Your information should remain understandable, exportable, and recoverable instead of being valuable only while a remote service keeps running.

Accessible by default

Keyboard use, readable layouts, focus visibility, reduced motion, localization, and right-to-left support are product concerns, not premium extras.

Pre-release software

Quill is still in active development. Features, wording, screenshots, milestone numbers, and release plans may change as implementation and testing continue.

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