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.

Preferences

View layout, agent providers, LSP, sync, file recovery, and project vs global settings.

Open the Preferences tab from the UI (in-app settings). Changes can apply to the current project (stored under .rope_notes/) and/or global app state.

Sections

View

UI scale, theme seed color, gutter / minimap defaults
Editor options for normal use vs “file launch” scopes
Browser layout — which tools sit in which of the three slots, separately for portrait and landscape (with a live preview)

Files / File recovery

Backup (.bak) rotation
Trash archive retention and restore
Related safe-save behavior

Restore deleted/overwritten files from the recovery UI when available.

Agent

Model providers (backend, URL, model, credentials)
Connection testing and model lists
Session behavior (e.g. continue last chat, retention)
Semantic (cognitive) memory toggle and HuggingFace token when needed

See AI agent.

Sessions

How long chat sessions are kept
Related retention / cleanup options

Language server

Enable/disable analysis
Process vs isolate backend
SDK / custom LSP URL when needed

See Language server.

Sync

Live sync, discovery, pairing, trusted peers, approvals

See P2P sync.

Git

Git-related preferences and credential handling where supported

Project vs global

Kind	Examples
Project (`.rope_notes/`)	View layout, agent providers, permissions, sync ledger, sessions
Global	Last opened folder, some app-wide defaults

Sharing a repo with .rope_notes/preferences.toml can share agent provider configuration with collaborators — be careful not to commit secrets. Prefer secure credential storage for API keys.

Resizable dialogs

About, Properties, Session Transfer, and similar windows can be dragged/resized. Scaling follows your UI scale preference.