Code Notes & Lessons Manager
Organize programming lessons, coding notes, and code snippets directly inside VS Code.
Code Notes & Lessons Manager helps students and developers keep their learning material organized by category, day, and tags. Notes are stored locally in VS Code global storage, so they remain available across workspace changes.
Features
- Nested Category > Day navigation in the sidebar.
- Markdown note editor with edit and preview modes.
- Search across note titles, content, categories, days, and tags.
- Advanced filtering by category, day, and tag.
- Favorites, archive, trash, and restore workflows.
- Create a note from currently selected code.
- Capture the current source file, line, and column as a code link.
- Open captured code links at their original source location.
- Copy Markdown content to the clipboard.
- View note, category, and tag statistics.
- Import and export notes as JSON.
- Export notes as a Markdown document.
- Persistent local storage that does not depend on the current workspace.
Getting Started
Open the Code Notes view from the VS Code Activity Bar. Use Code Notes: Create Note to create a lesson note. Add a title, category, day, tags, and Markdown content, then save it.
To capture selected code, select a code block in the editor and run Code Notes: Create Note. The selected code will be added to the new note automatically. To add a link to an existing note, open a source file and run Code Notes: Capture Current Code Link.
Open a note from the sidebar to edit it, preview its Markdown, copy its content, mark it as a favorite, archive it, or move it to the trash.
Commands
| Command |
Description |
Code Notes: Create Note |
Create a note, optionally including selected code. |
Code Notes: Search Notes |
Search notes by title, content, category, day, or tag. |
Code Notes: Advanced Filter |
Filter by category, day, and tag. |
Code Notes: Capture Current Code Link |
Add the current source location to a selected note. |
Code Notes: Statistics |
Show note, category, and tag statistics. |
Code Notes: Show Favorites |
Show favorite notes. |
Code Notes: Show Archive |
Show archived notes. |
Code Notes: Show Trash |
Show deleted notes. |
Code Notes: Restore Note |
Restore a note from the trash or archive. |
Code Notes: Export JSON |
Export all notes as a JSON backup. |
Code Notes: Import JSON |
Import notes from a JSON backup. |
Code Notes: Export Markdown |
Export notes as one Markdown document. |
Code Notes: Refresh |
Refresh the sidebar. |
Data Storage
Notes are saved in notes.json inside the extension's VS Code global storage directory. Notes are local to the current VS Code installation and are not uploaded to an external service.
Privacy
This extension does not require an account and does not send notes or source code to a remote server. Users should still review their own organization’s policies before storing sensitive code or confidential information in local note files.
License
MIT
