@Notesv1.4
v1.4 · shipped May 02, 2026

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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~/Vault/2026/Aprlocal · synced 0s ago
Apr 28
02:30 PM
4:12

Quick sync on Atlas migration

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Hallway chat with @Alice and @Bob about @Project Atlas. @Alice said @Jenny Park? from platform has been helping with the migration scripts and things are ahead of schedule.
#meeting#transcription
Apr 27
09:14 AM

Berlin trip — packing list

Flight on May 03, 2026. Hotel near @Berlin, two blocks from the @Horizon Labs office.
#travel
JP
Jenny Park
person · 12 mentions
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Four reasons

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.

01
local
offline-first

Your notes never leave the machine.

@Noded runs entirely on-device. Zero cloud round-trips— no auth, no sync queue, no “you’re offline” empty state. Open the app on a flight to @Berlin and everything is already there, because it never went anywhere else.
02
emergent
organic structure

Mention something. Watch structure appear.

Type @ and a name. That’s it — no folders to set up, no tags to maintain. Landmarks accumulate attributes from the notes that mention them, so @Alice already knows her own birthday by the time you go looking for it.
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14ms
search

Find anything in fourteen milliseconds.

A real search engine, on your machine. Filter by landmark, date, attribute, or any combination — without waiting on a network. Results stream in as you type, ranked by recency and how often a note actually matters to you.
04
.md
portable

Leave whenever you like. Take it all with you.

Every note is a .md file on disk, organized in folders you already understand. Mentions are just [[wiki-style]] links; attributes live in YAML frontmatter. No lock-in — point another editor at the same vault and it Just Works.
01 · Local & offline-first

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.

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02 · Structure that grows itself

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.

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~/Vault/2026/May/kickoff.mdlocal · synced 0s ago
Sync with @Jenny about @Project Nexus kickoff. Loop in @Alice for the data side.
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JP
Jenny Park
platform · 12 mentions
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JT
Jennifer Tran
design · 3 mentions
JB
Jenny's Bakery
4th & Howard · 2 mentions
+ create new “Jenny”⇥
derived from this note
PN
Project Nexus
kickoff date · TBD
+1 mention
JP
Jenny Park
team · platform
+1 mention
03 · Search that doesn't phone home

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.

⌘ K · everywherefilter by landmark, date, tagfuzzy + exact
atlas migration @Alice14ms · 50,182 notes scanned
Notes · 7 matches↑ recency · relevance
Apr 28
Quick sync on Atlas migration
... ahead of schedule. @Bob brought up ...
Apr 21
Atlas — schema notes
... reviewed with @Alice and finalized the join order ...
Apr 12
1:1 — Alice
... she’d like to lead @Project Atlas migration ...
Landmarks · 3 matches
Alice Chen38 mentions
Project Atlas24 mentions
Aurora DB11 mentions
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04 · Markdown all the way down

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.

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2026-04-28-atlas-sync.mdopen in any editor
---
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]]...
FAQ

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.

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$49 one-time, per major version. No subscription. Try it for 30 days first — the trial is the same binary, just nags you.

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