Pocket Prose

A writing app for Android that uses markdown and reads a folder. Point it at a directory full of .md files or start building your notebook from scratch. Uses the system file picker — no storage permission of its own — and lists, reads, edits, and searches files in place. The files stay the database. Uninstall it and the folder is byte-identical to how it found it, apart from edits you actually made.

Built for a personal prose and lyrics archive of ~200 notes over years, which is why it is opinionated about leaving things alone.

What it does

- Titles from frontmatter, never derived from the filename — the two often differ, and duplicate titles across files stay separate notes - A tag tree built from / path segments, read from the frontmatter tags list and nothing else - A one-time offer to move tags and titles from the body into the frontmatter for folders that still keep them there - Pinned notes by tag — notes carrying the pin tag sit at the top of the library, whatever the sort - Relative images and attachments, resolved against the note's own folder - Dates from the file, not from when the app first saw it - Atomic writes — temp file plus rename, so a sync client never sees a half-written note

What it does not do

- No renaming files to match their titles or headings - No injecting IDs or app-owned keys into frontmatter - No rewriting frontmatter it did not itself change - No importing into an internal database - No required subfolder layout, naming scheme, or index file - No auto-deleting a note because a file vanished - No auto-merging when a file changes underneath it — conflicts are surfaced, never resolved for you - No cloud account, no telemetry, no network permission

Interface language: English

License

GNU General Public License v3.0