For the age of infinite text

Read what AI writes.
Keep what you think.

AI writes more than you can read. note.md is where you get through it: highlight, question, fix it on the spot. It all lands in the vault your agents share — plain markdown, and the more you leave, the better they know you.

11 MB·any Typora theme·Mermaid & Graphviz, tuned·outliner, [[wikilinks]], daily notes·one vault every agent shares

Download for macOS Star on GitHub

macOS 13+ · free & open · your files stay on your own Mac · Intel Mac? · Windows?

research/agent-report.md · note.md

✦ generated by your agent

Local-first sync: findings

Across the twelve papers reviewed, CRDT-based approaches dominate recent work on offline-first collaboration.

However, plain-file architectures with derived indexes reached comparable latency at personal scale — with far simpler failure modes.

Three implementations were benchmarked against a 40k-document corpus…

agent-report.note.md

derived index > embedded DB for our case — [[vault-design]]

failure modes argument is the strongest one

ask agent to benchmark ours — [[2026-07-11]]

Four things

01
AI handles the writing.
This handles the reading.

Preview and source, one key apart. Notion and Typora themes work as they are. Mermaid, Graphviz and math, all tuned. The whole app installs at ~15 MB, with no browser engine inside.

A shaky line? Highlight it. A doubt? In the margin. Wrong? Fix it on the spot.

Claude, Codex and OpenClaw all have a chat window. None of them is made for reading.
02
The best of the last
generation. Built in.

local-first · git sync · outliner · [[wikilinks]] · backlinks · wiki pages · daily notes · plugins

Roam and Obsidian worked this out years ago. note.md puts it back into files. One plugin brings your whole Roam graph over. An Obsidian vault just opens.
03
No AI inside.
Made for AI.

Calls no model. Sends no request. Not one.

Your folder is the workspace every AI tool shares. Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, Hermes — same files, same house rules, all in git. See how.

Every file it writes follows Open Knowledge Format v0.2, strictly: what a document is, where it came from, who checked it — plain YAML at the top of the file. Any tool can read your vault. Not just this one.

Change AI tools whenever you want. What's yours stays yours.
04
Need something else?
Add it.

Write a plugin. Add a scheduled job. Hang your skills off it.

Put a ? in a note and an agent takes it from there: edits the document, fills in the context, hands it back — async. Whether you keep it is up to you.

* * *

The trick

AI text is infinite.
Your attention isn't.

Every document gets a note file of its own. What the AI wrote stays on one side. What you think stays on the other.

✦ quarterly-analysis.md

The document. An AI wrote it, and can write it again tomorrow.

&

● quarterly-analysis.note.md

Your highlights, doubts and questions. This part, no model can write.

Ten thousand words? Anyone can generate those. Your take, nobody can. And it's sitting on your own disk.

✦ what AI writes what you think

Own your thinking.

Free. Open. A folder on your own computer. That's it.

Download for macOS

macOS 13 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · also on Windows · from GitHub Releases

Written and maintained entirely by AI coding. Reviewed and tested by a human before every release.