Your notes stay yours.

Last updated 10 November 2026

Flint keeps your lists and notes as plain files on your PC. It has no server, no account and no telemetry. If you turn on Google Drive sync, only the lists, notes and groups you choose go to your own Google Drive, and Flint can only see the files it created there.

Who we are

Flint is a free, open-source notes and task app for Windows, made by Davit Khachaturovi and published under the MIT license at github.com/DavitKhachaturovi/flint. This policy covers the Flint app and this website, flintnotes.app.

What Flint stores, and where

Your lists and notes are markdown files in a folder on your PC that you choose (by default %USERPROFILE%\Flint), with attachments beside them.
Settings and app state (window positions, hotkeys, drafts) are in Flint's app data folder on your PC. Snapshots and logs stay on your PC too; logs are never uploaded.
Nothing of this is sent anywhere, except what you choose to sync (below). We don't collect personal data, and we have no way to see your notes.

When Flint uses the network

Updates: Flint checks GitHub Releases for a new version (you can turn the automatic checks off in Settings → About) and downloads it from GitHub. GitHub sees the request, as with any download; Flint sends nothing about you or your notes.
Google Drive sync, only if you connect it (below).
Nothing else. Flint has no analytics, no crash reporting service and no advertising.

Google Drive sync

Sync is off until you choose Connect Google Drive in Settings → Sync. When it is on:

What Flint can access: Flint asks Google only for the drive.file permission: it can see and change only the files it created in your Drive. It cannot see your other files.
What goes to your Drive: only the lists, notes and groups you choose (or everything, if you choose Everything), as plain markdown files in a folder named Flint, with the attachments they use and a little bookkeeping (which items are synced, task timestamps, which of your PCs has a linked file). Files linked from outside the Flint folder never sync.
Where it goes: straight from your PC to your own Google Drive. There is no Flint server in between; we never receive, store or see any of it.
Your Google account: Flint reads your account's e-mail address to show which account is connected. Its sign-in token is kept on your PC, encrypted by Windows, and is never sent anywhere but to Google.
Stopping: Disconnect in Settings → Sync removes the token from your PC and asks Google to revoke it. You can also remove Flint's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Your files in Drive stay until you delete them.

Flint's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data from your Google account is used only to sync the items you choose between your own PCs; it is never sold, shared, used for advertising or read by people.

Give to Claude

Give to Claude hands a task to the Claude app on your PC. Flint sends nothing itself; anything leaves your machine only if you send it from Claude, under Anthropic's terms.

This website

flintnotes.app is a static site hosted by GitHub Pages. It uses no cookies, analytics, trackers or third-party fonts and scripts. GitHub, as the host, may log visitors' IP addresses for security, as described in GitHub's own privacy statement.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is published here with a new date, and the change is listed in Flint's release notes on GitHub.

Contact

Questions about privacy: flintnotes.support@gmail.com, or open an issue on GitHub.