Getting started

Install tagwerk

tagwerk is the same app on every platform: the same notes, the same syntax, the same screens. Install it from the store for your system.

• Android without Google is meant for phones without Google Play services, such as GrapheneOS, /e/OS or LineageOS without GApps. It is a separate app and can be installed beside the Play version. The download page shows the checksum and the signing fingerprint.
• Windows draws the app in the Edge WebView2 runtime. Windows 11 has it, and so do most Windows 10 machines. Where it is missing, tagwerk says so at launch and points to the download.
• Linux: on Ubuntu, tagwerk is in the App Center. On other distributions, install it with sudo snap install tagwerk.

There is no version for iOS or macOS yet.

The first launch

tagwerk needs no account and asks no questions. It opens on today's note.

If the notes folder is still empty, tagwerk writes a short welcome note into today. It shows the syntax at work: tasks, a sub-task, an appointment, a tag, a section that folds away. The welcome note is an ordinary note in your folder. Type over it, delete it or keep it. If the folder already holds notes, nothing is written.

Where the notes are stored at first depends on the platform:

Settings → Storage shows the exact path and how many notes the folder holds.

Your notes folder

tagwerk keeps one Markdown file per day and nothing else. The folder holding them is your notes folder. Days that tagwerk creates are filed by year and month:

Tagwerk/
|- 2026/
|  `- 10/
|     |- 2026-10-27.md
|     `- 2026-10-28.md
|- templates/        what a new day starts with
`- settings/         tag colours and the Pro licence

The date is in the file name, never in the text. A day nobody has written on has no file. Any text editor can open these files, and any sync tool can carry them to your other devices.

Choose a folder of your own

To keep your notes in a folder you pick - a folder that Syncthing or the Nextcloud app already syncs, for example:

1. Open Settings → Storage.
2. Tap Choose folder... and pick the folder. On Android this is the system's folder picker.
3. tagwerk copies your day notes into the new folder. It never overwrites a file that is already there, and it leaves the old folder untouched as a backup.

A folder that already holds daily notes is read as it is. Files named YYYY-MM-DD.md count as that day wherever they sit in the folder, also flat in a single folder as Obsidian or Markor write them. Edits go back into the file a day was read from. The guide You already have a folder of daily notes covers this in detail.

Export

Settings → Storage → Export notes as ZIP writes every note into a ZIP file in the same year and month layout, with the day templates. It works whether sync is set up or not.

The screen

tagwerk has three views: the note of one day, the calendar and the task list. How they are arranged depends on the width of the window.

On a phone

On a phone, or in any window narrower than 900 pixels, the three views are tabs at the bottom of the screen: Note, Calendar and Tasks. The current tab is marked. The badge on Tasks counts the tasks due by today, overdue ones included.

At the top are the search, the View menu (the eye) and the Settings. Below them is the day row: the arrows step one day back or forward, the date in the middle opens a calendar to jump to any day, and Today brings you back to today.

The button at the left end of the day row opens the side panel, Calendar and tags. It holds a month calendar, the history of the day, and all tags and contacts of your notes.

The editor's buttons - task, time, repeat, contact, tag, indent - come up with the keyboard and stand above it. While the keyboard is up, the tabs step aside.

In the desktop layout

In a window 900 pixels wide or more - on a computer, or a tablet held sideways - the views stand side by side: the side panel Calendar and tags on the left, the note in the middle, the task list on the right. The button at the top of each side pane hides it or brings it back. The Calendar bar under the note opens the calendar as a sheet over the note.

The editor's buttons stay visible under the note. On Windows and Linux, Settings → Help → Keyboard lists the keyboard shortcuts.

Free and Pro

The base app is free, with no time limit: day notes with the complete syntax, today's tasks and appointments, the day view of the calendar, full-text search, the revision history, the ZIP export and a simple home-screen widget on Android. tagwerk Pro costs €12 / US$12, once, with no subscription. It adds the task list across all days with its filters, the week, month and agenda views, sync built into the app, day templates, tag colours, the statistics and overview per tag and person, widget configuration, reminders on Android and Windows, and profiles. Syncing your notes folder with a tool of your own stays free.

A licence is a file in your notes folder (settings/tagwerk.license), so whatever carries your notes to your other devices carries the licence with them. After a purchase through Google Play, Settings → tagwerk Pro → Use Pro on your other devices writes that file.

Your first day

A short walk through one day. Start on today's note.

1. Write an appointment: a line that starts with a time.
2. Write a task: start a line with - [ ], or write the words and press the Task button. A box typed without the hyphen, such as [ ] Call the garage, is completed for you.
3. Add a tag with # and a person with @. The Tag and Contact buttons insert the sign and offer the tags and people you have used before.
4. Tap the box in front of the task to tick it off. Tap again to open it again.
5. Step to tomorrow with the right arrow, and back with Today.
6. Open the task list (the Tasks tab, or the right pane in the desktop layout). Your open task is there.

The result in the file:

09:30 Call with @anna #work
- [x] Send the invoice #work
- [ ] Book the garage

Nothing has to be saved: tagwerk writes the note while you type.

Where to go next

• The day note: writing, formatting, sections, links, history and templates.
• Tasks: states, moving to another day, priorities, repeats and the task list.
• Appointments and the calendar.
• Tags and search: tags, contacts, readings and the search.
• Sync: your notes on several devices.