Features
Everything a plan needs. And the numbers.
Varlig is a planning notebook for Mac, iPhone and iPad: plain Markdown notes with a calculator built into the page. Here’s what it can do, from the first heading to the final number.
Planning
A plan, a number, and how close you are.
Write down what you want, break it into steps and put a number on it. Varlig works out the rest, and keeps the plan where you’ll see it.
- Steps as checklists, gathered in the Todo section until they’re done
- A reminder on any task, with a copy in Apple Reminders if you like
- Calculation widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen that follow your numbers
- Daily and weekly notes, and templates for the plans you make again
- Share a plan with the people in it, through iCloud
A deposit for our first flat
Somewhere with a balcony and room for a desk. We start viewing once the deposit is there.
The plan
- Open a savings account just for this
- Cut takeaways to once a week
- Get a Mortgage in principle
- Make an offer
The numbers
#goals/flat
Writing
Plain Markdown, neatly styled.
Type the way you already do. Varlig tucks the symbols away as you write, so notes read beautifully and stay portable plain text.
- Headings, bold, highlights in five colours, callouts and footnotes
- Checklists that gather in the Todo section until they’re done
- Tables you edit like a grid, and code with syntax colours
- TeX formulas and Mermaid diagrams, drawn right on your device
- Pictures, PDFs, audio and video, with the text in pictures and PDFs searchable
Calculations
A calculator that reads your notes.
Add a calc block anywhere and write sums the way you’d say them. Every answer appears beside its line, and updates the moment a number changes.
- Percentages, units, dates, times and time zones
- Currencies and crypto, with exchange rates that refresh on their own
- Name a value once and use it through the rest of the note
- A floating total, average, median or count of the lines you choose
- Click any answer to copy it
Organise and find
No folders. Nothing gets lost.
Tags, links and search keep a growing notebook easy to move around, however many notes it holds.
- Nested tags like #work/clients, with icons, pins and workspaces
- Links between notes and straight to headings, with backlinks
- Quick Open (⌘O) jumps to any note, tag or section
- Search filters such as @todo, @images and @date
- Todo, Today, Pinned and Locked sections that fill themselves
Privacy
Your notes stay yours.
Varlig keeps your library on your devices, in step through your own iCloud. There’s no account to create, and nothing you write is sent to a server of ours.
- Give any note a password, and its text and attachments are encrypted with AES
- Unlock with Touch ID, Face ID or your password
- Lock the whole app, or ask for authentication every time it opens
- Unlocked notes lock again when you step away
- Works offline, and goes online only for things like exchange rates
And more
The details that make it a daily habit.
- Import from Bear and SoulverBring a library across in one step, or import Evernote, Drafts, Day One, Word and Markdown files.
- Export anywhereMarkdown, PDF, Word, HTML, EPUB and more, with answers included in formatted exports.
- Sync and backupsYour library on every device through your own iCloud, and backups in a folder you choose.
- Themes and typographyLight, Night, Paper, Forest and Rose, with your choice of fonts, size and line width.
- Twenty app iconsThe Classic cat, fifteen colours and four special editions for your Dock.
- Keyboard firstA shortcut for nearly everything, plus two that open Varlig or start a note from any app.
- Long notes, made easyA table of contents, foldable sections, word count and note statistics.
- Link cardsShow a web link as a card with its title and picture, which still displays offline.
- Web clipperSave a web page’s article as a note, ready to highlight and annotate.
- SketchesDraw a quick diagram or doodle without leaving the note.
- On iPhone and iPadThe same notes and answers, with calculator keys, a document scanner and widgets.
- Demo notes that teach by doingEight short notes show what Varlig can do, with a list of things to try that ticks itself off.