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.

Editor

Tabs, large-file editing, Markdown preview, find/replace, diffs, and recovery.

Tabs and files

Open files from the Explorer, File menu, or by dropping paths into the agent context (where supported).
Each open file is a tab. Preferences and some custom screens also appear as non-file tabs.
Unsaved changes are marked dirty; save from the File menu or your usual save shortcut.

Saves on desktop use safe writing: backups (.bak) and optional trash archives so you can recover overwritten or deleted files. Configure retention under Preferences → Files / File recovery.

Editing large files

Rope Notes uses a rope-backed editor designed for large documents. Very large files may load in stages so the UI stays responsive.

Syntax highlighting

Languages include Bash, C/C++, CSS, Dart, Diff, Go, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Kotlin, Markdown, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Swift, TypeScript, XML/HTML, YAML, and more. Detection uses the filename and, if needed, file contents. You can override language when the UI exposes a language control for the tab.

Markdown

For Markdown files you can switch among:

Editor only
Side by side (source + live preview)
Preview only

The preview scrolls in sync with the source. Fenced code blocks are highlighted; Mermaid diagrams and common SVG badges are supported in the preview.

Find and replace

Action	Shortcut (Ctrl on Windows/Linux, Cmd on macOS)
Find	Ctrl/Cmd+F
Replace	Ctrl/Cmd+H

The find bar can seed from the current selection. State resets when you switch documents.

Diffs

.diff / .patch files (or content that looks like a unified diff) highlight added and removed lines.
Diff against disk compares the buffer to the saved file and lets you review or revert blocks. Use this when the file changed externally or you want to undo hunks back to disk. Very large files may skip a full diff for performance.

Minimap, gutter, and zoom

Action	Shortcut
Toggle minimap	Ctrl/Cmd+M
Toggle line gutter	Ctrl/Cmd+G
Zoom in	Ctrl/Cmd+= or Ctrl/Cmd++
Zoom out	Ctrl/Cmd+-
Reset zoom	Ctrl/Cmd+0

UI scale and theme seed color are under Preferences → View.

Agent edits in the editor

When the AI agent proposes a change, you may see:

A ghost preview of the proposed text
An accept / reject toolbar
A diff view of the proposal (including multi-file proposals)

Nothing is written until you accept. See AI agent.

Diagnostics

Dart analysis errors and warnings appear as underlines / gutter marks and in the Problems panel. See Language server.