Everything you need to think - local-first, fully loaded, and free forever. AI-powered when you want it.
Every decision we make traces back to these. They're not features - they're the foundation.
Dashboard, graph view, tasks, kanban, templates, voice memos, present mode, split view, unified search, and AI - all shipping, all designed to work together. No plugins to hunt, no community configs to copy, no weekend setup sessions.
Your Markdown files on your device. Snappy because there's no server round-trip. Works with existing vaults - Obsidian, iA Writer, or plain folders. No lock-in, no migration, no proprietary format. The app works on a plane, and it'll work in 30 years.
AI is woven into the experience but never forced. Run a local model, bring your own API key (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic), or let us host it. Same features every way. No upsell, no feature gating. Turn it on, turn it off.
Same files, same trust model, same offline guarantees. Different posture: opinionated where it matters, invisible where it doesn't.
Three stages, no buttons. Notes flow between them based on when you touched them last.
Quick captures and half-formed thoughts land here. Process them later, or let them sit. They're safe.
What you're touching right now. Recently edited, recently linked, recently on your mind. Front and centre on your dashboard.
Long-term memory. Old notes drift here on their own. Still searchable, still linkable, still yours. Resurface them by linking, mentioning, or asking.
Tasks, capture, daily notes, AI. First-class, shipped, kept up to date.
One global hotkey, anywhere on your machine. A floating overlay drops in, you write, it's gone - routed to your Inbox before you lose the thought.
A new page every morning, pre-populated with your open tasks and a date heading. Just open, start writing.
Write - [ ] in any note. Ariv finds it, surfaces it on your dashboard, and lets you check it off from anywhere.
Ariv reads your notes and pulls tags from your own words. The taxonomy is your writing, not a scheme you have to design and police forever.
Wikilinks, unlinked-mention detection, a graph view that doesn't choke on 10k notes. The connective tissue you expect, and it's fast.
Semantic search and conversational answers grounded in your own notes. Ask about something past-you wrote three months ago. Get an answer, with the receipts.
Pick the one that matches your tolerance for setup and cost. Switch any time. Semantic search, auto-tags, and Ask Brain work the same across all three.
Run an open-source model on your own hardware. Nothing leaves the device. Slower on small Macs, fast on a decent GPU, free at any scale.
Paste an OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google key and you're done. You pay your provider directly. We never see the traffic, we never markup the price.
No keys, no setup, no thinking about quotas. Sign in once, get a frontier model wired up, done. Fair-use limits, encrypted in transit, easy to cancel.
The app is free, with every feature. Sync and managed AI are optional add-on services for when you'd rather not run the infrastructure yourself.