Open in the light, private by default. We build tools that do not phone home, do not rent themselves back to you, and do not hold your files hostage.
01Manifesto
There is no premium tier where the encryption gets better. No telemetry waiting for you to find the switch. No account we ask you to make so we can count you. The vault is encrypted because that is what a vault is.
If losing your password means losing your notes, you hear it before you type the first one — not in a help article afterwards. A studio that is honest only about its strengths is selling something.
Your files are yours, in a format you already read. The server is something you can run yourself. Stop trusting us and self-host. Stop using us and walk away with everything.
A privacy company that raises money against a growth promise makes a trade it cannot unwind: eventually the data pays for it. We would rather be small, slow, and still here in ten years.
Software that looks like an afterthought treats its user like one. Every surface here is drawn rather than assembled, because a tool you live inside for hours owes you something worth looking at.
02The standard
Every work in this studio is held to the same list. It is not a roadmap; it is a filter.
03Work 001
The only open-source notes app where your files stay plain markdown after decryption, where backlinks and graph are first-class, where signup takes no email, and where the same code runs on our sync or on your own server.
Work 001 is out. The rest are being built to the same standard — and if we ever break it, the source is public and you will be able to say so.
04Connect
Follow the work, or reach us on a channel we actually run. No forms, no trackers — just people.
PGP key
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