Every file a PM touches.
One desktop app.
Stop Alt-Tabbing between 8 apps to write one PRD.
Orqa Note is a file-system-first desktop workspace for Product Managers. Markdown with embedded Mermaid diagrams, real spreadsheets, PDFs, Excalidraw canvases, and Google Docs — all in a single window, all reading real files from your disk.
Free and open source (MIT). Intel Mac?
Checkout Redesign — PRD
Problem
Users abandoning checkout at the card-entry step are disproportionately first-time buyers on mobile. Drop-off climbs to 34% on Android Chrome vs 19% on desktop Safari.
Proposed flow
The card-entry step becomes optional when Apple Pay / Google Pay are available. This cuts three form fields from the mobile critical path.
Note — Older Android (<9) cannot tokenise reliably. We fall back to the legacy form for those users; instrument the rate so we know when to drop support.
Open questions
- Does the express checkout row need an a11y review?
- Who owns the rollout dashboard?
The problem
PMs juggle 5–8 apps to write one PRD.
Your roadmap lives in a spreadsheet. The competitive research is a PDF. The flow diagram is in Figma, the API contract is in a Google Doc, and the actual PRD lives somewhere between Notion and a markdown file you forgot to sync.
Every context switch breaks concentration, and no single tool handles all the formats PM work actually uses. Most "all-in-one" products pick one extreme — proprietary database (you lose portability) or bare text editor (you lose everything else).
Orqa Note is a lens over your filesystem, not a walled garden. Close the app, your folder is still your folder. Nothing moves, nothing syncs, nothing gets held hostage.
Formats covered
The file types you actually open — with the editors they actually deserve.
Markdown
.mdWYSIWYG editor with slash commands
Spreadsheet
.csv · .xlsxFormulas, sorting, multi-sheet
PDF
.pdfSearch, zoom, page navigation
Excalidraw
.excalidrawCanvas drawings, editable
Bookmarks
.orqaAnything with a URL — opens as an in-app browser tab
WYSIWYG Editor
PRDs with diagrams inside them.
The markdown editor renders Mermaid blocks live — no split preview pane, no render-lag. Type /mermaid and a diagram block appears, editable in place. Headings, tables, callouts and code blocks all behave the same way.
Everything writes to a real .md file. Git-friendly, portable, opens in any other editor.
Checkout Redesign — PRD
Problem
Users abandoning checkout at the card-entry step are disproportionately first-time buyers on mobile. Drop-off climbs to 34% on Android Chrome vs 19% on desktop Safari.
Proposed flow
The card-entry step becomes optional when Apple Pay / Google Pay are available. This cuts three form fields from the mobile critical path.
Note — Older Android (<9) cannot tokenise reliably. We fall back to the legacy form for those users; instrument the rate so we know when to drop support.
Open questions
- Does the express checkout row need an a11y review?
- Who owns the rollout dashboard?
Spreadsheets
Real spreadsheets, not a cute table widget.
CSV and XLSX open in a proper grid — formula bar, multi-sheet tabs, sort, filter, column formatting. No "export to Excel" step.
The same window that holds your PRD opens your roadmap sheet. That's the point.
Embedded Google & Figma
Google Docs. Figma. Actually inside the app.
Bookmarks open as real Chromium tabs inside Orqa Note — not iframes. You stay logged into Google and Figma across restarts, and the tab switches feel instant.
Bookmarks are plain .orqa JSON files on disk. Share them in Git or Dropbox like any other file.
Folder-first
Your sidebar is your filesystem. 1:1.
Open any folder from Finder. The sidebar mirrors it exactly — rename a file in Orqa Note, it renames on disk. Close the app, your folder is unchanged.
No proprietary database, no sync daemon, no walled garden.
Open source · MIT
Read the code. File an issue. Or just fork it.
Orqa Note is MIT-licensed. No hidden SaaS tier, no telemetry, no waitlist. We'd rather have ten good contributors than a million locked-in accounts.