Welcome to Culma
A calm place for your thoughts. Culma keeps your notes as plain files on your own devices, syncs them end-to-end encrypted between everything you own, and stays out of your way while you write.
This guide is a Culma vault itself. Every page is a note you can edit, link, search and draw on, so try things out as you read. You can't break anything: every change is kept in Every version, kept.
Where to go from here
| Topic | What you'll learn |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | Vaults, notes and folders in two minutes |
| Writing and Formatting | Headings, lists, colors, tables, images |
| Links and Backlinks | Connecting notes into a web of ideas |
| Daily Notes and Tasks | A page for every day, and every to-do in one place |
| Whiteboards | Sketches and diagrams as first-class notes |
| Documents and Websites | PDFs and web pages you can read, search and mark up |
| Finding Things | Search, find in note, and answers from your notes |
| Dictation and Quick Capture | Speaking instead of typing, and capturing ideas from anywhere |
| Devices, Sync and Sharing | Your notes on every device, and with other people |
| Every version, kept | Going back in time, and getting things back |
| Make It Yours | Colors, light and dark, text size |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | Everything at your fingertips |
Prefer a picture? How Culma Fits Together is the same map as a whiteboard.
Your first five minutes
- Open Culma
- Read Getting Started
- Create a note with Ctrl+N and give it a title
- Press Ctrl+D to open today's daily note
- Search for "whiteboard" with Ctrl+K
- Doodle something in How Culma Fits Together
- Bring in a PDF with Add document… in the + menu
Tip: Tick these boxes as you go. Every checkbox in the vault also shows up in the Tasks view in the sidebar.