Local-first markdown notes · Coming soon
Oakpad is a notes app that keeps everything as plain files on your own computer. Connect the AI you already use to search, write and link your notes, and undo any change it makes.
Illustration of the Oakpad window. In a note called Q3 planning, someone typed “@ai summarise the bullets below”. The AI added a one-paragraph summary, marked as a new change with an Undo button under it. The Assistant panel lists “Changed Q3 planning” with Undo.
Everything works on files in a folder you choose. Pro adds the AI features.
Pro included in Oakpad Pro. Everything else is free.
Each edit the assistant makes is recorded on its own, so you can take back one change and keep the rest. Changes from other AI apps land in your note history, ready to restore.
For each notebook, choose whether AI may read, create, change or delete notes. It can't go beyond what you allow.
Use the AI you already have: an assistant on your computer, your own AI account, or a model that runs locally. No AI account with us, and no markup.
Write @ai and an instruction, press Enter, and it drafts, tidies or summarises right in your note.
Pause, and faint text finishes your sentence. Press Tab to take it.
Connect AI tools you already use through MCP, the open standard for this. They get the same permissions as the assistant.
Your notes are ordinary markdown files in a folder you choose. Their history is kept, so you can look back and restore earlier text.
Link notes with [[double brackets]], see which notes link to this one, and explore the whole web of notes as a graph.
A shortcut or the tray icon opens a small note window from anywhere. One note per day is ready for plans, logs and journals.
Keep work, personal and projects apart, each in its own folder, and switch between them from the keyboard.
Add your own markdown syntax and app features, or install plugins others have made. Plugins run in a sandbox and only get the access you allow.
Sign in with GitHub and your notes sync between your computers through your own repository. No Oakpad account, no Oakpad server.
Find notes by what they mean, not just the words in them. A small model is downloaded once; after that it runs on your computer.
Dictate notes. A speech model is downloaded once, then speech becomes text on your computer.
Writing, search and history work without internet. Sync and cloud AI catch up when you're back online.
If you use a cloud AI service, the notes you share with it go to that service. With a local model, nothing leaves your computer.
No subscription.
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No account and no key needed.
Available at launch
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Available at launch
A notes app that stores your notes as plain markdown files on your own computer. You can connect your own AI to search, write and link them, and undo any change it makes.
In a folder you choose, as ordinary files. Oakpad has no server that holds them. You can open the folder in any other app at any time.
The notes app is free: files, links, graph, history, sync and search by words. Oakpad Pro is a one-time purchase that adds the AI features, voice dictation and search by meaning. No subscription, and all future updates are included.
No. Open it and write. If you turn on sync, it uses your own GitHub account.
Oakpad doesn't sell AI. You connect an assistant or AI service you already use, or a model that runs on your computer. Any AI cost is between you and that provider, with no markup from us.
You choose for each notebook whether AI may read, create, change or delete notes. Every AI change is recorded, so you can undo it or restore the earlier text from history.
Not through Oakpad. If you use a cloud AI service, the notes you share with it go to that service. With a local model, nothing leaves your computer. If you turn on sync, your notes go to your own GitHub repository.
Yes, if they are markdown files. Oakpad opens any folder of markdown files and understands [[double-bracket]] links. Features that depend on another app's plugins won't carry over. Oakpad is not affiliated with Obsidian or Logseq; those names are trademarks of their owners.
Writing, search and history work without internet. Sync and cloud AI need a connection, and catch up when you're back online. Search by meaning and dictation download their model once, then run offline.
Windows, macOS and Linux, plus phone and tablet apps. Connecting other AI apps works on the desktop apps.
Yes. Plugins can add new markdown syntax and new features to the app. Each plugin runs in a sandbox and only gets the access you allow, and you can turn any plugin off. Plugins work in the computer apps.
No. Your notes are open files, plain markdown you can read and edit with any app, but the app isn't open source.
Soon. There is no sign-up list, so check back here. Questions in the meantime: hello@oakpad.app.