You've thought about this before.

Your best thinking,
back when you need it.

Don't start from scratch. While you write, Digital Notebook brings back the relevant passage from what you've already saved — no searching, no reorganising, no trying to remember where you put it. Saving is one right-click — articles, posts, even a video's transcript — with no copying or pasting.

Free forever. No account. No credit card.

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You've thought about this before. Don't start from scratch.

You sit down to write something and it's familiar. You've had these sentences in your head. You've written some of them down. But they're buried in a pile of notes across three apps, and finding them means stopping, searching, opening documents, rereading — so you start again instead.

Digital Notebook works the other way round. You keep writing, and the passage you wrote last time appears beside you. No search box, no reorganising, no trying to remember where you put it.

The problem was never saving things. It's getting them back— and not losing the thinking you've already done.

You already had the answer. It's buried.

Everyone builds a graveyard: clipped articles, half-watched videos, things people told you, decisions made at 1am that you can't reconstruct three months later when they finally matter. The tools you've tried are very good at swallowing all of it. None of them give it back.

01

Save it without copy-paste

Right-click an article, a YouTube video — transcript and all — or a LinkedIn post. Forward an email. It lands with a link back to where it came from. No copying, no pasting, no folders to choose.

02

It comes back on its own

As you write, your past notes surface beside you — matched to what you're working on right now. You never type a search. Your past self answers your present one.

03

The thinking happens on your machine

Deciding what to resurface never sends your notes anywhere — it runs on your own device. Health worries, money, half-formed ideas: your thinking stays yours. Anything that does use the cloud is optional, and we say which, plainly.

New

Your notebook has its own email address.

The things worth keeping often arrive by email. Now they can go straight into your notebook.

  • Forward anything.An investor update, a meeting recap, a thread worth keeping. It's filed under the person who wrote it, not under you.
  • Subscribe your newsletters. Every issue of a newsletter builds one note, newest on top, with the unsubscribe clutter stripped out.
  • Attachments come too.PDFs are read, so what's inside them can come back to you later.
  • Only people you trust. Mail from anyone new waits for your OK before it becomes a note.

We'd rather show you nothing than noise.

A useful memory isn't another feed. When nothing is relevant enough to deserve your attention, the sidebar stays empty. That restraint is the product.

Pay for intelligence, not custody.

Your notebook is free and lives on your computer. What you pay for is the part that hands your past back, however far back it goes.

LocalFree foreverThe whole notebook on your computer: write, import, search, capture and export. Notes from your last 90 days come back while you write. No account. No card.
Intelligence$12/monthEverything you've ever saved comes back while you write, however old. Plus Lora: a morning brief, answers from what you've written, “what have I learned about this?”
Connect$6/monthYour notebook on every device and in any browser, capture by email and from your phone, and an encrypted backup. Our servers carry sealed notes they cannot read.
Everything, locked inFounding member$99/yearIntelligence and Connect together (otherwise $15 a month or $150 a year), at a price that stays yours for as long as you keep it.

During the private beta, everything is free.

Hey there—

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You read something good and save it. You watch something worth remembering and save that too. You write down what the doctor said, what you decided, what someone told you that landed.

Then months later you're facing the exact thing you once had an answer for — and it never crosses your mind that you already wrote it down.

It's all still there. It just never came back.

That was me for years, across every notes app I tried. Brilliant at swallowing things, useless at returning them. Searching only works when you remember there's something to search for.

So I built the opposite— a notebook that watches what you're working on and quietly hands you your own past thinking, before you think to ask.

It's early, and I'd rather say that than pretend otherwise. It does one thing well, and I use it every day. Try it, and if something annoys you, tell me — there's a feedback button inside, and it reaches me.

Tolulope AdebayoTolulope AdebayoFounder — and the first person this had to work for

Fair questions

Why can't my notes app find something I know I wrote?
Because most search matches words, and you rarely remember the exact words you used. Digital Notebook matches meaning, one passage at a time, so a note about “pricing the annual plan” turns up when you write about what to charge. That matching runs on your device, not on our servers. And for the times you don't think to search at all, the relevant passage comes to you while you write.
Can you read my notes?
No. Your notes are encrypted on your device before they're saved, in the desktop app's folder or in a web account alike, with a key we never receive. We store only what we can't read. Deciding what to resurface, transcribing your voice and reading text out of images all happen on your machine. The exceptions: asking Lora sends your question and the passages it draws on to an AI model; topic tags do the same only if you switch them on; email arrives as ordinary email and is sealed the moment it reaches us; and with a web account we can see when things change, never what they say. We never sell your notes or use them to train models. The details are in the privacy policy.
What happens to my notes if you disappear?
You export everything as plain files, any time, and they open in anything. That's deliberate: a notebook that holds your thinking hostage isn't worth trusting. Saving stays free forever, so leaving costs you nothing.
Why pay, if saving is free?
Because saving isn't the hard part — every app does that, and charging for it would be charging you rent on your own words. What's worth paying for is the part that hands them back at the moment they matter. The free notebook brings back your last 90 days; Intelligence reaches everything you've ever saved, which is where the forgotten things are.
What if it just shows me junk?
Then it shows you nothing instead. It speaks up only when something is genuinely close to what you're working on, and stays quiet the rest of the time. An empty sidebar beats a noisy one — if you catch yourself ignoring it, we've failed, and we want to hear about it.
Do I have to change how I work?
No. No filing, no tagging, no review schedule to keep up with and feel guilty about. You save things the way you already do, and write the way you already write. It reacts to you.
I already have years of notes somewhere else.
Bring them — Obsidian, Markdown files, a Notion export, even your browser bookmarks. Honestly, do that first. The notebook can only hand back what it holds, and an old archive is exactly where the forgotten things live.
Where can I save things from?
Anywhere you'd otherwise copy and paste. Right-click anything in your browser — an article, a YouTube video (with its transcript), a LinkedIn post. Forward an email or subscribe a newsletter to your own notebook address. On Android, share straight in from any app. And the desktop app, now in testing, adds a shortcut that grabs highlighted text or a screenshot from any program on your computer.
Where does it all go? Do I have to sort it?
No sorting. Everything from the same place gathers in one note — the same PDF, the same person, the same channel or newsletter — newest on top, each with a link back to where it came from. You never pick a folder.
Do I need a powerful computer?
No. The parts that run on your device are small, download once the first time you use them, and run comfortably on an ordinary laptop. There's nothing heavy to install and nothing to set up.
Which devices does it work on?
Your computer first: the Digital Notebook app for Windows and Mac keeps the whole notebook in a folder on your machine, with no account. With Connect it also opens in any modern browser and on your phone, in sync. The apps are in private beta.
Can I just ask it something?
Yes — ask your notebook in plain words, like “what did I decide about pricing?” It finds the passages in your own notes that answer it (that search happens on your device), writes a short answer from them, and opens the note it came from. Writing the answer is the one step that uses a cloud AI model, and it works from what you saved unless you ask it to look something up on the web.
Is this another AI thing?
It won't write your thoughts for you, and it never invents a note you didn't take. What it shows you is always something you saved, in your own words, with a link back to where it came from.

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