Tipsboard
Stays in VS Code
No second app and no extra tab farm. Run Tipsboard: Open from the Command Palette and work beside your code and docs.
VS Code extension
Your Markdown wiki, inside the editor you already use.
Tipsboard is a personal knowledge workspace: wiki-style [ … ] links, backlinks, tags, Kanban, Canvas, and rich Markdown — all backed by plain .md files you own. Use the same vault folder as the desktop Tipsboard editor if you like. No sign-in. No proprietary database.
Built for focused work
Stay in VS Code, keep your notes as ordinary files, and let Tipsboard surface connections as your library grows.
Plain Markdown on disk
Notes live as Markdown files anywhere under the vault folder, including nested folders, with images and attachments under assets/. Sync with Git, Dropbox, or whatever you trust.
Connected by design
Outgoing links, backlinks, semantic nearby notes, two-hop related notes, suggested new links, isolated-note notices, and optional pins help you navigate a growing library without losing context.
What you get
Everything runs against local files — GFM, Mermaid, math, tags, and a tabbed workspace tuned for browsing and writing. File access stays in the extension host; the panel is a focused WebView UI.
Backlinks and discovery
The note index powers backlinks, shared references, related pages, two-hop relationships, and suggested new links as you write. The Related area also surfaces semantic nearby notes with match context and flags pages that have no links yet.
Rich Markdown editing
A CodeMirror-based editor with GitHub Flavored Markdown, Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX-style math, tables, tags, and internal link autocomplete.
Kanban boards
Organize work visually. Board state and pin order live in .tipsboard/kanban.json and .tipsboard/pins.json without mutating note bodies.
Canvas (experimental)
Map problems, deeper causes, and solutions on a graph backed by Mermaid text under .tipsboard/canvas/. Select a node to edit description and status in the detail pane.
Tabs and NavMemory
List view with a tab strip for notes and tag searches. Cmd/Ctrl-click opens another tab without the usual discard prompt. NavMemory restores tabs, view mode, Kanban focus, and search when you go back and forward inside the panel.
Shift+drag attachments
Hold Shift while dropping files to copy images into assets/images/ and other files into assets/files/, with size limits you control.
Built-in user guide
Onboarding, shortcuts, vault layout, and editor behavior — bundled in English and Japanese, from the book icon whenever you need a refresher.
How it works
Three steps from an empty folder to a working vault. Details and shortcuts are in the README on GitHub; implementation notes live in SPEC.md.
Install the extension
Search for Tipsboard in the VS Code Extensions view and install from the Marketplace (or use Open VSX). The extension stays idle until you run Tipsboard: Open, so startup stays light.
Open your vault folder
Open a workspace folder in VS Code. That folder becomes your vault. In multi-root workspaces, set tipsboard-vscode.vaultFolder to the folder name that should be used.
Open Tipsboard
Run from the command palette:
Tipsboard: Open
Create or open Markdown files anywhere under the vault folder, link with wiki-style [ … ] brackets, and let Tipsboard build the graph. New notes start in inbox/ so you can file them later. After you save a new title, Tipsboard can optionally offer to align other notes’ bracket labels — see the README.
Ready to try it?
Free and open source (Apache-2.0). Install takes under a minute.