Envy 1.0.0 is the first Linux release — built on Omarchy, for Omarchy 
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for Omarchy

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Fast, Frictionless & Flat-file Notes for Omarchy

The notes app that dresses like your desktop. Inspired by the legendary Notational Velocity, Envy uses just one input that searches, creates, and opens. Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you own. Change your theme and Envy changes with it. Summon and hide it with a keystroke. Agent friendly, extremely customizable, blazing fast.

To Install

Just tell your agent:

Install Envy from https://github.com/skuthus/Envy-Linux

The README has everything an agent needs: the pacman repository, the package, the Hyprland bind. Launch it, flip one switch in Settings, and Ctrl+Alt+Return is yours.

By hand

Envy ships from its own pacman repository, hosted on GitHub. Add it to /etc/pacman.conf once:

[envynote]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://github.com/skuthus/Envy-Linux/releases/download/repo

Then install it:

sudo pacman -Sy envynote

From then on omarchy update brings each new version along with everything else. Prefer a file? The AppImage and tarball are on GitHub. Prefer to build it? git clone https://github.com/skuthus/Envy-Linux && cd Envy-Linux/linux && makepkg -si.

Envy on the Omarchy desktop

Ctrl+Alt+Return summons Envy by default. Type, Return, and the note is open. Envy will follow your Omarchy theme automatically.

Envy in every Omarchy theme

Envy on Omarchy in Tokyo Night: a floating column over the wallpaper with a search box, a filtered list of notes, and an open note with tasks and due dates

Envy in Tokyo Night. Pick another theme below and the page follows. So does the app: these are real captures, one per theme, nothing retouched.

Follows your theme (even your custom themes!)

$ omarchy theme set tokyo-night

Envy reads the live theme from ~/.local/state/omarchy/current/theme/colors.toml. Run omarchy theme set and a running window retints in place. omarchy font set is honoured the same way. Prefer a fixed look? Settings → Appearance pins Envious light or dark and any font you name.

What's native

Summon
Ctrl+Alt+Return is a Hyprland bind. Envy lives on the special:envy scratchpad, floating and centred, and slides in over whatever you're doing. Press it again and it's gone. Not running yet? The same chord launches it.
An eye in the bar
The Mac's menu bar eye is an Omarchy bar widget here, installed on first launch. Open while the window is on screen, closed while hidden. Click it to summon, right-click for the menu. Move it with omarchy bar move.
Hyprland Blur
Surfaces are translucent, so Hyprland's blur does the rest. Envy overrides the default window opacity so text stays as sharp as an opaque terminal.
One box
Type to filter as you type. Return opens the top match, or creates a note from what you just typed. Operators narrow it: tag:, inbox:, @friday. See the manual for more commands.
Flat files
Every note is plain Markdown, UTF-8, in ~/Documents/Envy or any folder you point it at. Readable by anything, forever. Sync it with whatever you already trust.
Wiki-links and embeds
[[Note]] links. ![[Note]] pulls another note's live content inline. Rename a note and every link to it is rewritten across the vault.
Tasks and dates
[ ] anywhere on a line is a checkbox. @2026-09-05 or @monday is a due date. Both live in the text itself, so both survive without Envy.
Same core as the Mac
The note model is the Rust envy-core shared with Envy for Windows, ported line for line from the macOS original. One vault, three platforms.
Agent-ready
The package installs an envy skill for your coding agent: every setting, every shortcut, every colour token, and envynote config check to validate an edit. Ask your agent to make Envy match a theme and it knows how. Use it for an Agent PKMS, editing .md skills, or personal work and writing. 
Nothing phones home
No account. No sync service. No telemetry. No network calls at all. Airgap-friendly by construction, not by promise.

Setup one switch

Wayland has no app-registered global hotkeys, so the summon is a Hyprland bind, and the package ships it. Launch Envy, open Settings → System, and turn on Bind Ctrl+Alt+Return in Hyprland. That adds one guarded line to ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua and reloads Hyprland. Turn it off and the line goes away. A line you wrote yourself is never touched.

Prefer to do it by hand? It is the same line:

-- ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua
pcall(dofile, "/usr/share/envy/hyprland-envy.lua")

That file floats the main window as a centred panel, drops Omarchy's default window opacity so text stays sharp, and binds Ctrl+Alt+Return to envynote --toggle. Ctrl+Alt+C centres the window after you have dragged it about. Every setting, including these, lives in ~/.config/envy/config.md; the Settings panel writes the same file.

Specifications, complete

Version
1.0.0
Requires
Omarchy 3+, or Arch with Hyprland
Runtime
webkit2gtk-4.1, gtk3
Packages
pacman repo, AppImage, tarball
License
MIT, source on GitHub
File format
Markdown, UTF-8
Storage
One folder, chosen by you