# Leaftext — full page index > Refine your mind. Your thoughts, secure and free. A free desktop app for reading and writing your own documents, on your own machine. Every canonical page, its human URL, its raw Markdown source, and a short description. Fetch the .md URLs for clean, JS-free text. ## Refine your mind. - Page: https://leaftext.com/ - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/README.md - Summary: Your thoughts, secure and free. Leaftext is a free desktop app for reading and writing your own documents. Everything stays on your device, in plain files you own. ## Rendering - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/01-rendering.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/01-rendering.md - Summary: Leaftext picks a pipeline from the file extension. Markdown (.md, .markdown, .mdown, .mdc) is parsed in Rust with pulldown-cmark, run through a GitHub-like rendering pipeline, sanitized, and handed... ## Navigation - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/02-navigation.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/02-navigation.md - Summary: The navigation model is simple from the outside and fairly careful under the hood. Each tab keeps its own file history and its own in-document scroll history. ## Library - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/03-library.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/03-library.md - Summary: The library is the part of Leaftext that helps you find documents, not just read the one you already opened. It lives in a left-side pane, and everything it shows is read from disk when you ask for... ## Minimap - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/04-minimap.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/04-minimap.md - Summary: The minimap is a scaled side-rail showing the actual document beside the reading view. It sits outside the page rather than on it — the page's border stops 4 px short and the rail stands on the sam... ## Settings - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/05-settings.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/05-settings.md - Summary: Settings are owned by the Rust app rather than browser storage, which keeps them durable across restarts and consistent across the embedded WebView. ## Themes - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/06-themes.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/06-themes.md - Summary: From the user side, themes are simple: open the theme picker, tap a family, pick an appearance, and the app updates immediately. Under the hood every family covers the full --lt- token set, names t... ## Editing - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/07-editing.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/07-editing.md - Summary: Leaftext is reading-first, but it is also editable. You can edit in the reading view itself — click into a sentence and type, toggle a checkbox — and the change is written back into the source at e... ## Relational tables - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/08-relational-tables.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/08-relational-tables.md - Summary: Leaftext calls this RDB: a relational table view over a Markdown table. The table remains ordinary GFM, so it opens everywhere it did before. The desktop app adds the view while you read it; it doe... ## Your Grove - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/09-progress.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-features/09-progress.md - Summary: Leaftext keeps a quiet record of what you do in it and shows it as your Grove: thirteen Growth areas, each leveled by its own kind of use, and a Grove level that adds up the levels you have claimed... ## Meet Leaftext - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-introduction.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/01-introduction.md - Summary: Leaftext turns the files you already have into pages you actually want to read. Open a Markdown, HTML, XML, JSON, or YAML document — a plain text or config file, a source file, or a saved email — o... ## Installation - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/02-installation.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/02-installation.md - Summary: Leaftext is free, and it ships ready to run on macOS and Windows. There's no account to create, no plugins to pick, and no runtime to install first — download it, open it, and it works. ## Quickstart - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/03-quickstart.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/03-quickstart.md - Summary: There's nothing to set up. No account, no folder to designate, no plugins to choose. Point Leaftext at a file you already have and start reading. This page walks the shortest useful path: open a fi... ## Glossary - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/GLOSSARY.md - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/GLOSSARY.md - Summary: Every word Leaftext uses for a part of itself, in one file, alphabetically. Wherever one of these terms appears in a page, Leaftext links it for you; clicking the link opens that entry in a bottom ... ## Leaftext documentation - Page: https://leaftext.com/docs/ - Markdown: https://leaftext.com/docs/README.md - Summary: Leaftext is a free desktop app for reading and writing your own documents. Open a local Markdown, HTML, XML, JSON, YAML, plain text (.txt), config (.ini), source, email (.eml), or Word, Excel, Powe...