Scuba
Introducing Scuba, the shared context engine for teams and their agents. So everyone can stay aligned and move faster, together.

Portent
Portent is an open specification for modeling knowledge with typed objects, explicit relationships, and a simple lifecycle.
v2 Editor
v2 is a local-first writing tool that treats your documents as evolving artifacts, preserving every version in open formats that last.

Memex AI Journal App — Open Source, Local-First, iOS & Android
Official Memex site. Download the open-source, local-first AI journal for iOS and Android, view the GitHub source, and organize text, photos, and voice with AI.

How I Write Blog Posts with Obsidian — Unattributed
You've probably run into some Obsidian evangelist espousing some convoluted system of organizing all their notes, and building some knowl...

What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?
As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and methodologies actually give to researchers and the broader world? Has there been a meaningful increase of wisdom since these became popular? I went to look for an answer.

The knowledge layer for collective intelligence
A portable data substrate for humans and their tools to think together.

Self-Hosted Second Brains DWeb Camp 2026
Local-first knowledge bases with self-hosted integrated agents allow for people to leverage LLMs without having to trust the companies hosting cloud models.
Relay - Team collaboration in Obsidian
Real-time multiplayer plugin for teams in Obsidian. Share folders, collaborate in real-time, keep personal notes private. Transform Obsidian into a powerful team collaboration tool.

Orbit
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Flashcards as Notes - Wesley's notes
Effortful reading habits and resisting the urge to defer attention
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.

Tolaria — A second brain for the AI era
Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration. Free forever.
I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save


OmniCanvas - Free Infinite Canvas Notes App
Best Notes App - Write and Organize with UpNote
Antinote — a $5 scratchpad for macOS

NotePlan – Notes, Tasks and Calendar in One Daily Note

Let your thoughts sink in — Gravity
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble