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Note-taking · Volume 05 · 2026
Think less.
Remember
more.
Engram is a note-taking app for people who are tired of organizing instead of thinking. Capture fragments. Link them without ceremony. Build a second brain that actually behaves like one.
CAPTURE — LINK — RECALL — COMPOUND — EXPORT — OWN — CAPTURE — LINK — RECALL — COMPOUND — EXPORT — OWN —
01 / Essay
The case against folders
Folders demand you decide what something is before you know why it matters. That is the opposite of how insight works. Ideas arrive as scraps — a sentence from a book, a half-question, a diagram drawn in a meeting that went sideways.
Engram refuses the filing cabinet. Notes float. Connections surface when they are useful. The archive grows without asking you to become a librarian after every capture.
“A second brain should feel like a desk, not a warehouse.”
02 / What it does
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Living backlinks
Every note shows what points at it, in plain language. Not a graph for its own sake — a map of what you already know.
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Fragment search
Type the half-sentence you remember. Engram finds the rest — including notes you wrote last spring and forgot existed.
03 / Specs
The facts, set in type
| Layer | Detail | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | Local-first SQLite + optional E2E sync | Shipped |
| Format | Markdown + portable link graph | Shipped |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, Linux, Web | Shipped |
| Privacy | No training on your notes. Ever. | Policy |
| Price | Free personal · Pro teams | Open |
04 / Dispatch
Stop filing.
Start compounding.
Join 18,000 writers, researchers, and founders who keep their second brain on Engram.