Free and open source

Your vault,
but smarter

Chat with your notes, watch them sort themselves into topics, and search by meaning, all powered by AI you choose, even fully offline.

Search and the graph work with no AI setup at all.
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a sample vault, sorting itself into topics
How it works

Connect your notes, then build on them

One evening of exam prep: your notes sort themselves into topics, you hand one to the agent, and it drafts your revision section — finding the note you'd forgotten, and asking before it saves anything.

My vault — Obsidian
Graph

Your notes, grouped by what they're about

Topics are worked out from how your notes actually relate — no folders to maintain, no tags to remember. This one is yours to play with.

Broad

Drag the slider: the same notes, gathered into fewer big topics or split into smaller ones. The wand hides the topics — the chevrons fold each one to a single point.

Topics

It works them out for you

Related notes are grouped and colour-coded, with an outline drawn around each topic. Nothing to set up — it reads the links and the writing itself.

Immerse

Step inside a topic

Circle a topic and the graph rebuilds around just those notes — finer topics appear inside it. Watch it happen in the demo above.

Names

Topics that name themselves

Ask once and each topic gets a name from what's in it. Names are remembered, so it doesn't re-do work it has already done.

Overview

Fold it down to the shape

Collapse every topic to a single point when you want the whole vault at a glance, then open the one you care about.

Search

Find it the way you remember it

Start with the words you'd expect. When those aren't the words you used, one press searches by meaning instead — and either way, the search can turn straight into a question for the agent.

psych101why do we forget
Lecture 8 — Sleep· Psych 101
deep sleep and its role in retaining what you learn
Week 7 slides.pdf· Psych 101
slide 18 — the hippocampus and storing memories
Attach to chatsemantic: on
  • Narrow it as you type. Type # for a tag or / for a folder and it becomes a chip on the search box. Stack a few to say "in here, tagged that".
  • For when you forgot the words. One press and it searches by what you meant, turning up notes that never use your words. It goes back to normal on your next search.
  • Turn a search into a question. Found nothing useful? Send it to the agent instead — it keeps your wording and whatever you'd narrowed it to.
  • Write the missing note. If the note you searched for doesn't exist, make it from the search box without losing your place.
Agents

An assistant you stay in front of

It reads your notes before it answers, and it asks before it writes — the draft in the demo above is waiting on exactly that.

Memory

Picks up where you left off

Opt in and it keeps working notes on your projects — real notes in your vault, and never a stale copy of them.

Skills

Teach it new tricks

It comes knowing how to explore your vault, edit notes and search the web. Teach it more by writing plain notes.

Connections

Bring your other tools

Hook up outside tools and sources (via MCP) when you want the agent to reach beyond your vault.

History

Chats are notes too

Every conversation is saved in your vault. Rewrite a question and the old thread stays — nothing is lost.

It also reads images and PDFs, hands focused jobs to helper agents with their own instructions, and runs as many chats side by side as you like.

Privacy

Your notes stay yours

Pick where the AI runs. The answer changes what it can ever see.

Set it up once and forget it — or read how the privacy model works.

Providers

Bring the AI you trust

Six kinds of provider. Two can run entirely on your own computer, and those are trusted with private notes by default. Switch per chat.

OpenAI
Anthropic
Ollama local
oMLX local
OpenRouter
OpenAI-compatible

Make your second brain smarter

Free, open source, private by design. Works on desktop and mobile.

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