I built StillPoint because I wanted a calmer place to think.
I was a Zim wiki user for decades so I rewrote it, very opinionated :). There are no 'plugins' it's just all there, out of the way if you don't want it or just need it later.
Most tools I tried either felt noisy, cloud-bound, or split across too many apps (notes here, tasks there, planning somewhere else). I wanted one surface where journaling, organizing, project work, and task planning could live together — without locking my data into someone else’s system. Blazing fast and always available, etc. Being a consultant on several projects ... I need 'safe space' to keep my context (outside of all the noisy Jira's, Google, Teams/Microsoft, favorite client tool X....) that are client owned. It doesn't replace those, but allows me to keep 'my brain' and 'my context' and relevant links to those systems where/when needed.
StillPoint is a local-first Markdown workspace.
A great place to keep and organize all your notes (and increasingly those important LLM sessions). It's markdown native so very friendly to pasted output from the AI's.
Your vault is just folders and Markdown files on your disk. No accounts required. No mandatory sync service.
It’s designed to reduce friction:
Notes, tasks, and planning live in the same place
Tasks are written directly inside notes (- [ ]) and automatically parsed
Journal + calendar workflows are built in
Graph view lets you explore relationships between ideas
“Project mode” lets you zoom into a contextual slice of your vault
Focus mode removes UI noise for writing
Audience mode simplifies the screen for sharing or presenting
Hi HN —
I built StillPoint because I wanted a calmer place to think.
I was a Zim wiki user for decades so I rewrote it, very opinionated :). There are no 'plugins' it's just all there, out of the way if you don't want it or just need it later.
Most tools I tried either felt noisy, cloud-bound, or split across too many apps (notes here, tasks there, planning somewhere else). I wanted one surface where journaling, organizing, project work, and task planning could live together — without locking my data into someone else’s system. Blazing fast and always available, etc. Being a consultant on several projects ... I need 'safe space' to keep my context (outside of all the noisy Jira's, Google, Teams/Microsoft, favorite client tool X....) that are client owned. It doesn't replace those, but allows me to keep 'my brain' and 'my context' and relevant links to those systems where/when needed.
StillPoint is a local-first Markdown workspace.
A great place to keep and organize all your notes (and increasingly those important LLM sessions). It's markdown native so very friendly to pasted output from the AI's.
Your vault is just folders and Markdown files on your disk. No accounts required. No mandatory sync service.
It’s designed to reduce friction:
Notes, tasks, and planning live in the same place
Tasks are written directly inside notes (- [ ]) and automatically parsed
Journal + calendar workflows are built in
Graph view lets you explore relationships between ideas
“Project mode” lets you zoom into a contextual slice of your vault
Focus mode removes UI noise for writing
Audience mode simplifies the screen for sharing or presenting
Keyboard-first navigation (optional vi-style mode)
Attachments live alongside pages. Templates keep structure lightweight. Search is fast and local.
AI is optional and opt-in. It can run against local models or hosted APIs, but the core app works entirely without it.
Under the hood, it’s built around a server model so multiple clients can operate on the same vault:
Desktop app (default)
Web UI
PWA for quick task updates and capture (still in progress)
There are two remote models:
Remote Vault:
Server stores plaintext Markdown
JWT-based authentication
Role-based access
Homebase (distributed model):
Encrypted object replication
Server stores opaque blobs
Client-side key derivation
Offline-first push/pull sync with conflict handling
Non-goals: SaaS hosting, real-time collaborative editing, proprietary sync service.
If StillPoint disappeared tomorrow, you would still have a folder of Markdown files.
Quickstart is in the README. No signup required.
I’d appreciate feedback — especially on the sync model and overall approach.