Context Note

Your notes, tasks & meetings — private, on-device, AI-native.

No account · No cloud · Your data never leaves your Mac

Markdown Editor Meeting Notes Kanban Board Gantt Timeline
Context Note — the Today view with sidebar, notes, tasks and more

Everything, one calm place

A notebook that thinks in context

Markdown, tasks, projects and meetings share one local-first workspace — with AI that runs on your Mac and only ever suggests.

A markdown editor that gets out of the way

Write in clean markdown, see it rendered live. Slash commands, checkboxes, code, and instant search — no chrome, no clutter.

Welcome to Context Note

Text Formatting

You can write bold, italic, or strikethrough — even inline code.

Try slash commands
Add a due date @today

On-device AI

Apple Foundation Models, Ollama, or bring your own. It suggests — you approve. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you say so.

AI suggestion
Priority High
Estimate 30 min
Foundation Models Ollama Claude

Tasks, Kanban & Gantt

Turn any note into a project. Track work as a board, a timeline, or a weekly workload — priorities, due dates, subtasks.

To do 2

!Draft post

Book venue

Doing 1

!!Landing page

#design

Done 1

Set up repo

Meetings, transcribed

Record on-device, get a time-stamped transcript, then an AI summary — audio never leaves your machine.

00:14 Let's ship the beta this week.

01:02 Prep the launch landing page.

AI summary

Calendar sync

Due dates flow to Apple Calendar through EventKit. Your schedule and your notes finally agree.

Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

Design review

Thu · 14:00 · Apple Calendar

Private by design

No account, no cloud, no telemetry by default. Your notes live in an encrypted local database, unlocked with Touch ID.

Unlocked with Touch ID

SQLCipher · AES-256 · keys in Keychain

Touch ID SQLCipher encryption Local-first No account

Capture anywhere

A global shortcut and menu-bar quick-capture drop straight into your Inbox — triage later, never lose a thought.

Capture a thought… Space
Call the venue back now
Idea: weekly digest email 2m
Also inside · Voice dictation · Image OCR · Clipboard history · Templates · Focus mode · Dark mode · Sync via your own folder

Think in context.

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