Capture
Capture in a second, worry later
Quick note, clip from the web, drop in a PDF, paste a photo from your phone. No folder decisions, no tags required — just save it. Structure can emerge when you're ready.
Your thinking, the way you think it.
Naute is where your notes, documents, and half-formed ideas live — and where AI can actually help you work with all of it. Capture in a second. Connect everything over time. Keep every word yours.
- Lighter than Notion
- More connected than a notes app
- Friendlier than agent tooling
Less than a workspace. More than a notes app.
Naute is a local-first AI workbench — a place built for the messy middle between a stray thought and a finished piece of work. Your notes, documents, and attachments become one library your mind (and any AI you use) can actually reach.
Knowledge
A library that compounds
Notes, documents, and attachments link together as you go. Backlinks, related notes, and a graph grow in the background — so last year's half-thought becomes useful context today.
AI inside
AI that works on your real material
Chat alongside any note with suggestions, summaries, and edits — grounded in your actual library, not a blank chat box. Every change is reviewable and reversible.
AI outside
Agent-ready out of the box
Naute speaks the Model Context Protocol. Claude, Cursor, or any agent you bring can search, read, and append to your library — safely, with permission, no setup.
Local-first
Yours, offline, forever
Every note is a real Markdown file on your disk. Works offline. Exports are a no-op — it's already portable. Even if we disappear, a final build runs forever.
Collaboration
Share a page, not a workspace
Send a read-only link. Invite a collaborator on a single note by email. No workspace to set up, no permissions matrix, no admin console. Collaboration stays bounded.
You write it once. Every AI you use can reach it.
Your library is exposed through the Model Context Protocol — the open standard for letting AI read real data. Claude can search it. Cursor can reference it. Whatever you pick tomorrow will too. No uploads, no re-explaining, no lock-in.
research/rebrand.md
Rebrand brief
Why Naute. Navigation, reflection, and the quiet hum of a fountain pen on paper. #brand #decision
The product stays the same: markdown notes, local-first, AI‑native. The name just finally fits.
- Land new wordmark in app by Q2
- Migrate
chalq.app→naute.ai - Open waitlist on the marketing site
claude · naute-mcp
> Summarize the rebrand brief and list open tasks.
Summary. Renaming the app from Chalq to Naute for a better brand fit; product scope unchanged.
Open tasks
- Ship new wordmark in app by Q2
- Migrate chalq.app → naute.ai
- Open waitlist on marketing site
source: research/rebrand.md
Borrowed the good bits. Left the heaviness behind.
| Naute | Notion | Obsidian | Apple Notes | Evernote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your files on disk | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — |
| Works offline | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Approachable for non-developers | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grounded in your library | ✓ | Inside Notion only | Plugin lottery | Apple AI only | Inside Evernote only |
| Agents via MCP — bring your own AI | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Selective sharing, no workspace setup | ✓ | Workspace-first | Paid add-on | Apple only | ✓ |
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