Rope Notes is an offline-first, local-network agentic workspace built for high-performance engineering. It runs a dedicated LSP client on-device and routes AI context pipelines over secure LAN/WAN to your private infrastructure.

Is Rope Notes a privacy focused IDE?

Yes, Rope Notes is built for air-gapped privacy. It never sends your source files through public cloud aggregators. All processing stays on-device or on your private network infrastructure.

Does Rope Notes support local LLM agents?

Yes, Rope Notes routes agentic prompt matrices to localized private server nodes including Ollama, vLLM, and private endpoints for complete data sovereignty.

Is Rope Notes available as a Mobile Dart IDE?

Yes, Rope Notes is built with Dart and targets mobile platforms, functioning as a Mobile Dart IDE that operates seamlessly across devices with a locked 60/120 FPS UI.

How does Rope Notes pricing work?

Rope Notes has $35 pricing for a lifetime license for the first 100 customers. After 100 licenses are sold, the price will increase to $50. After reaching 10,000 customers, the software will be completely open-sourced.

Browser panels

Explorer, Git, Terminal, Problems, and dockable layout around the editor.

Browser panels are dockable areas around the editor that host project tools.

What can go in a panel

Tab	Purpose
Explorer	Project file tree — open, create, delete, properties
Git	Repository status and related actions
Agent	AI chat and tools
Terminal	Embedded shell (desktop)
Problems	Language diagnostics
Debug Console	Debug output
Test Results	Test runner output

Layout

You can place up to three browser slots (left, right, top, or bottom). Portrait and landscape each have their own layout, which is helpful on tablets and phones.

Configure slots under Preferences → View. A live preview shows where each slot sits around the editor.

Action	Shortcut
Toggle browser bar	Ctrl/Cmd+B
Toggle browser panel	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+B
Terminal tab	Ctrl/Cmd+`
Problems tab	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+M
Debug Console	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Y
Test Results	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T

Drag panel edges to resize. On mobile, panels can grow to fill most of the screen.

Explorer

Click a file to open it; keyboard navigation is supported.
Context menu: create file/folder, delete, show properties.
Deleting a file on desktop usually moves it to a recoverable trash archive (see Preferences → File recovery).
The tree expands to the active editor file.
Drag files into the Agent context (scope) when you want the agent to focus on them.
On web, the explorer is effectively read-only for mutations.

Git

Open the Git panel for status and repository actions for the current project folder. Git preferences (including credentials where applicable) live under Preferences → Git.

Terminal (desktop)

The Terminal tab hosts shell sessions via a PTY. Resize the panel so the terminal matches the layout. Not available on mobile or web.

Problems

Lists analysis diagnostics grouped by file:

Expand/collapse file groups; collapse/expand all
Filter by text (message or filename)
Right-click a diagnostic for Quick Fix when the language server offers one

See Language server.

Agent

See AI agent.