The keyboard-driven cortex for hackers.
Instantaneous local capture, Vim keybindings, and SQLite semantic query engine with zero mouse friction.
Unix philosophy applied to human knowledge.
Every note is text. Every query is a pipeline. Every link is composable.
Every save is an immutable Git commit. Revert thoughts back 5 years or branch exploratory hypotheses without corrupting your trunk.
Embeddings calculated locally on your CPU using quantized models. Query notes via cosine distance in pure SQL syntax.
Cryptographically sign daily entries. Encrypt sensitive security research notes with recipient public keys.
Modal navigation at the speed of thought.
No UI toolbars. No menus. Master standard key chords to organize libraries without taking hands off the home row.
Traverse headers, fold outline sections, and yank markdown blocks.
Fuzzy search graph and insert bidirectional reference portal.
Ripgrep through entire knowledge base in sub-millisecond threads.
Render terminal ASCII dependency tree of current node backlinks.
Peer verification.
"Kortex replaced three sluggish Electron note apps on my Arch workstation. The Rust binary launches in 4 milliseconds and memory usage never tops 18 megabytes."
"Being able to pipe my terminal build logs and GDB trace dumps directly into my second brain using standard UNIX pipes is a complete game changer."
Get the native binary.
Single statically-linked binary with zero external dependencies. Compiled for macOS ARM/x86, Linux, and Windows.