Marginalia / A second brain / Plain text
A second brain in plain text.
No folders. No lock-in. Just your notes as files, linked both ways, searchable in milliseconds, owned by you.
Plain text/Bidirectional/Local-first/Encrypted/Yours/
The index.
- 01CaptureOne inbox. Text, images, audio, links. No folder required.
- 02LinkWrite [[note]] once. Backlinks appear on their own.
- 03SearchQuery syntax across years of notes in milliseconds.
- 04SyncLocal-first files with end-to-end encrypted sync.
- 05OwnPlain markdown on disk. No proprietary format. No lock-in.
02 / Features
Built like infrastructure.
01
Files, not a database
Your notes are markdown on disk. Greppable, portable, permanent.
02
Links both ways
Every [[link]] creates a backlink. The graph builds itself.
03
Search that scales
Instant full-text and query syntax across decades of notes.
“The first note app that did not try to own my thinking.”