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Private & local AI personal knowledge management app for high entropy people.

⭐ Popular: 9k stars, gaining about 5 a week

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repo profile

delivery product
language JavaScript
license AGPL-3.0

momentum

total stars 9k
stars added last week +5
HN peak 411 pts 2y 5mo ago
binary downloads 6k total · GitHub releases
commits / week 0 steady
contributors 29
release cadence monthly
last activity 1y 2mo ago

durability

backing community / independent solo maintainer
openness copyleft

why it's a big deal

  • A private, local-first alternative to cloud note-taking: your knowledge base and the AI over it both run on your own machine.
  • Turns a pile of markdown notes into a self-organising, AI-searchable knowledge base without anything leaving the device.
  • One of the cleanest examples of the local-first AI wedge against funded-SaaS note-taking tools.

under the hood

  • Desktop personal-knowledge-management app that stores plain markdown, with local vector search via LanceDB.
  • Runs models on-device through llama.cpp, so both retrieval and generation stay local.
  • Automatically links related notes and answers questions over your own corpus.

our take from PR#38, 2026-07-15

star history

PR#38 · 9k9k now Nov 2023Jul 2026
  1. PR#38 9k 2026-07-15
  2. now 9k + 10 since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.

-54 understory score output 0 · clout 54
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#38 2026-07-15 below the radar

    a private, local-first AI note-taking brain

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