$ loam --help
A second brain
without the mouse
Loam is a note system for people who think faster than they can click. Everything — capture, linking, recall — is one keystroke deep. Plain markdown on your disk, always.
loam — recall
❯what did I decide about focus
- ▸attention is a budget, not a skill
- ▸Deep Work — ch. 3 highlights
- ▸why my mornings collapsed
- ◆Ask recall: “what breaks my focus?”
↑↓ navigate↵ open⌘↵ ask recall
$ loam why
no folders
Filing is a tax you pay forever. Loam links instead: mention a note and the connection is made, both ways, immediately.
no lock-in
~/notes/*.md — your files, your disk, your git repo if you like. Sync is end-to-end encrypted and entirely optional.
no waiting
Local index. Median recall in 12ms across 40,000 notes. Works on a plane, works in a tunnel, works when we go under.
$ loam --list-bindings
| command | description | binding |
|---|---|---|
| capture | open the capture bar from anywhere | ⌘⇧Space |
| link | connect this note to another | ⌘L |
| graph | open the local graph for this note | ⌘G |
| recall | ask a question across everything | ⌘K then ? |
| daily | jump to today's note | ⌘D |
| export | write the whole vault to markdown | ⌘⇧E |
$ loam install
Free for 500 notes.
$8/mo after that.
macOS / Linux
brew install loamWindows
winget install loam