Features
Nix is built on one idea: there is one kind of item. An item has a title, an optional body, a set of properties and any number of children. Its body kind (note, canvas, spreadsheet or file) chooses an editor. It never decides what the item may contain.
Everything below is built on that model.
In this section
Items and views
Every item can hold children. There is no special folder type: a note can contain sub-notes, a canvas can contain...
Properties and formulas
A container declares fields for the items inside it. Those definitions cascade down the tree: a grandchild sees the...
Tasks, habits and finance
Tasks, habits and money in Nix are ordinary items with fields that carry a meaning. There is no separate task app or...
Canvas and diagrams
A canvas is a body kind for drawing: whiteboards, sketches, flow charts and architecture diagrams. It is built on...
Sheets
Nix has two kinds of spreadsheet: a spreadsheet body, which is a grid of cells inside one item, and a spreadsheet view...
Calendar and reminders
A calendar view places a container's children on the day or hour that a date field names. Give it a second date field...
Collaboration and offline
Notes, canvases and sheets are edited live. Several people can work in the same document at once, see each other's...
Search and the graph
Type [[ or @ in a note to link to another item. The picker searches as you type, and a link to an item that has since...
Import and export
Nix is designed so that leaving is cheap. Everything you put in can come out, and any format that cannot carry...
Templates
A template is a reusable tree of items: their bodies, fields, views and selected references. Applying a template...
Locks and protections
Nix has two different ways to guard an item. A lock hides content behind a password. A protection stops structural...
Plugins and MCP
Nix runs plugins as signed WebAssembly components. A plugin is registered on a workspace with a declared set of...
The companion pet
A Nix pet is a ChatGPT conversation with a small animated character and a controlled set of workspace tools. You can...