Write notes. The structure shows up on its own.
@Noded is a local-first notebook for people who think by writing. Drop an @ mention and the rest of your knowledge graph appears around you — without ever leaving your machine.
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Built around four stubborn ideas.
Most note apps want you on a server. @Nodedwants you on your laptop, with files you’d recognize even if we vanished tomorrow.
Your notes never leave the machine.
Mention something. Watch structure appear.
Find anything in fourteen milliseconds.
Leave whenever you like. Take it all with you.
The cloud is optional. So is the network.
@Noded writes to a folder on your disk and reads from a folder on your disk. There is no @Nodedserver, because the people who built it didn’t want one either.
Type @. The graph does the rest.
Mentions are how you organize. Drop one in a note and @Noded creates a landmark for it — typed, attributable, searchable. Folders are still there if you want them. Most people stop bothering after a week.
A real search index. On your laptop.
Sub-twenty-millisecond full-text search across 50,000+ notes, with landmark and date filters built in. Powered by a local SQLite + Tantivy index that rebuilds incrementally as you write — and never leaves the machine.
Your notes are files. Files you can keep.
Every note is a plain .md file with YAML frontmatter and [[wiki-links]] for mentions. Sync with git. Edit in vim. Open in Obsidian. Walk away from @Noded entirely — your notes will not notice.
--- title: Quick sync on Atlas migration date: 2026-04-28T14:30:00 tags: [meeting, transcription] mentions: - person/alice - person/bob - project/project-atlas - company/horizon-labs --- # Quick sync on Atlas migration Had a quick hallway chat with [[Alice]] and [[Bob]] about the [[Project Atlas]] timeline. Alice mentioned that things are ==ahead of schedule==. Bob brought up that [[Horizon Labs]] wants to integrate [[Aurora DB]]...
Questions, answered like notes.
We keep a working FAQ in our own vault — these are excerpts.
Q.Wait — really, no servers? Where does my data go?+
Onto your disk, into a folder you choose. By default that’s ~/Documents/Noded, but you can point it anywhere — an external drive, a Dropbox folder, a git repo. @Nodednever opens a network socket. We can’t see your notes. Nobody can.
Q.How do landmarks and mentions actually work?+
Type @ and a name. If @Noded recognizes the name, it links to the existing landmark. If not, it creates a new one with a tentative type (@unknownuntil you confirm). Attributes — “team: platform”, “birthday: Jun 12” — get inferred from the prose around the mention.
- People, companies, places, products, projects are first-class types.
- You can add custom types and attributes per vault.
- Everything ends up as YAML frontmatter on disk.
Q.Can I sync between two laptops?+
Yes — bring your own sync. Most people use @git, @Syncthing, or iCloud Drive. The vault is plain files, so anything that syncs files works. @Noded watches the folder and re-indexes when files change.
Q.How do I leave?+
You don’t need to. Your notes are already .md files in a folder you own. Delete the app and the folder is still there, fully readable. Open it in @Obsidian, @Logseq, @VS Code, or cat. No export wizard. No “are you sure?” dialog. Just the files.
Q.What’s the catch?+
Honest answer: a few. There’s no real-time collaboration — that’s a server feature and we don’t have one. Mobile capture works but heavy editing on phones is rough. And the search index lives in a sidecar database, so @Noded needs a few seconds on first launch to build it after a big import. If those are dealbreakers, @Nodedprobably isn’t your tool.
Q.How much does it cost?+
$49 one-time, per major version. No subscription. Try it for 30 days first — the trial is the same binary, just nags you.
Try it on a flight.
It’ll work just fine.
One binary, one folder, zero accounts. Thirty days free, then $49 if you stay.