A commonplace book for people who read too much.
Loam keeps what you read, think and clip, then hands it back when you need it.
Notes were never meant to be filed away.
Renaissance readers kept a commonplace book: a notebook where passages, ideas and observations were copied down and indexed by topic. The point was rereading. Notes were meant to be returned to, argued with and combined into something new.
Most note apps are good at the copying and useless at the return. Loam is built for the return. It links what you write to what you wrote before, and each morning it puts a few old notes back in front of you.
What it does
Five things, done carefully. Nothing that needs a tutorial.
Capture from anywhere
Share sheet, browser clipper, a forwarded email, a voice memo. Everything lands in one inbox as a note.
Link as you write
Type two brackets to link any note. Backlinks appear on their own, so old thinking attaches itself to new.
Old notes come back
Each morning Loam surfaces three notes related to what you wrote yesterday. Nothing to schedule, nothing to tag.
Plain files on your disk
Every note is a Markdown file in a folder you choose. Sync is end-to-end encrypted and entirely optional.
Search that understands
Full-text and meaning-based search across notes, PDFs and web clips. Ask for the idea, not the exact words.
“The morning resurfacing is the feature I did not know I needed. Half my columns start there now.”
Beatriz Nogueira
Columnist, Público
Free to read. Pay to carry it with you.
Personal
Free
Local notes on one device, for as long as you like.
- Unlimited notes
- Markdown files on disk
- Backlinks and graph
- Full-text search
Sync
$8per month
Every device, encrypted, with the clipper and resurfacing.
- Everything in Personal
- End-to-end encrypted sync
- Browser clipper and email-in
- Meaning-based search
- Morning resurfacing