Fully local · encrypted · no account, no telemetry

The notebook that keeps
everything — and keeps it private.

Notes, reminders, tasks, and on-device meeting intelligence in one encrypted workspace. Nothing leaves your device.

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Works offline Encrypted at rest macOS · Windows · Linux
Casual Note
Casual Note desktop app: a notebook list beside an open note, with a natural-language quick-capture bar at the top

An early build of the actual app — the notebook, editor, and quick capture running locally.

Everything, in one place

Four tools that finally work as one.

A note becomes a task. A task carries a reminder. A meeting becomes a note. Nothing is stranded in a separate app.

Notes that connect

A calm block editor with a daily-note journal, wiki-links, tags, and backlinks. Your thinking links itself together instead of scattering into folders.

Plans that stay clear

Today, Upcoming, Anytime, and Someday — with projects and areas. Capture a task in natural language and it lands where it belongs.

Reminders you can trust

Say “remind me every Monday at 9” and it recurs. A resilient scheduler delivers alerts whether the app is open or closed, and catches up on anything missed.

Meetings, understood

Record and transcribe on your device, then get summaries, decisions, and action items from a local model — each fact linked to the moment it was said.

One search for all of it

Full-text and semantic search across notes, tasks, and transcripts, with a command palette to go anywhere and do anything in a keystroke.

An assistant that cites

Ask questions across your whole knowledge base and get answers grounded in your own notes — with citations, or an honest “I don’t know.”

One foundation

Four pillars. One private core.

Every pillar sits on a single encrypted store, a shared link graph, and one search index — so your knowledge is genuinely connected, and entirely yours.

Notes

Blocks & backlinks

Reminders

Recurring alerts

Tasks

Projects & areas

Meetings

Local transcripts

One encrypted local store · one link graph · one search index · one AI workspace
Private by architecture

Not a privacy setting. A privacy guarantee.

Recording, transcription, AI, search, and storage all run with the internet switched off. The network is touched only to download models and check for updates — with your consent.

Offline by defaultEvery core workflow is verified to run with no network connection.
Encrypted at restAn encrypted store whose key lives in your operating system’s keychain.
Zero telemetryThe shipped app is scanned in CI to prove it reports to no one.
On-device AISpeech and language models run locally. Your audio never leaves the machine.
Open sourceApache-2.0 licensed. Audit it, fork it, and keep it for good.
Your file, your formatOne portable, encrypted file. Export to Markdown, PDF, or JSON anytime.
A look inside

Designed to feel calm and quick.

A few glimpses of the workspace — captured from the running app.

Casual Note meeting review — transcript beside an evidence-linked summary, decisions, and action items
From recording to minutes
Casual Note tasks — Today, Upcoming, Anytime, and Someday buckets
Plan your day
Casual Note settings — pick your language and download the on-device speech, language, and embedding models tuned for it
Private AI, in your language

Real screenshots from the running app.

Built to last

A small, fast native core.

No Electron bloat, no background daemons, no lock-in — engineered for speed and longevity.

Tauri 2 shell Rust core React + TypeScript UI SQLite + SQLCipher store whisper.cpp speech llama.cpp local LLM Hybrid full-text + semantic search

Own your notebook.
Own your meetings.

Casual Note is free, open source, and built in the open. Follow along, read the design, or contribute.

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