Features · v0.9.0
Everything you capture lives together — notes, people, tasks, bookmarks and AI all connected.
The Dashboard surfaces what matters — a live Knowledge Health score, 14-day activity chart, AI Digest on demand, and a Focus Next card pointing to your highest-priority open task.
Knowledge Health score with streak, tagging rate, and connection count
AI Digest on demand — recap notes, tasks, and bookmarks any time of day
Focus Next — your highest-priority open task surfaced automatically
Fully responsive — works on phone, iPad, and desktop
Unlike tools that bolt on a generic chatbot, Dotstell's AI runs across your entire knowledge graph — notes, people, tasks, bookmarks and meetings. And it works where you already work: Codex, Claude Code and Cursor.
Whenever you want one, Dotstell generates a concise recap of everything on your plate — recent notes, due tasks, idle knowledge, and what to focus on next. Stay aligned without spending 20 minutes reviewing apps.
🖥️ Running Ollama locally?
Use the Dotstell Local AI Agent — a zero-dependency proxy between dotstell.app and your local Ollama instance. No install, no config.
npx @dotstell/agent🔌 Use your notes in Codex, Claude Code or Cursor
Connect them with an MCP server and a token you control. They can search and read your notes, tasks, people and meetings. Read-only, revocable in one step.
AI Settings → Connect AI tools (MCP server)Why dotstell
Your notes, people, tasks and bookmarks, connected in one graph, so your AI answers from what you actually know. Free, open source, and yours to keep.
Your notes, the people in them, the tasks they create and the links you saved all live in one graph. Ask once, get an answer from all of it.
Use your own key or run Ollama on your machine. Let Codex, Claude Code or Cursor read your notes, read-only, with a token you can revoke in one step.
Export everything any time as Markdown, CSV and a full backup. Moving in from Notion, Obsidian, Evernote or Google Keep? Preview first, undo in one click.
AGPL-3.0. Read the code, self-host it, or just use the free app on web, Windows, macOS and Linux.
Not a team wiki. Not a Notion clone. Not only a bookmark manager. Free to start.
The problem it solves
Every meeting leaves a trail — a note, a saved link, a task, a person to follow up with. In the usual setup these end up in four different apps with no memory of how they connect.
The usual way
4 apps · no connections · context lost in days
With Dotstell
📑 Notes
Discussed the Q3 roadmap with ⬡ Rayan. Saved ⬡ Q3 roadmap doc for reference. Follow-up: ⬡ Review dependencies before Thursday.
Connected to
One note · everything linked · context lasts forever
How it works
STEP 01
Write a note, save a bookmark, log a person, add a task. One place, no friction, no app-switching — every piece of knowledge lands in Dotstell the moment it happens.
STEP 02
Type [[ in any note to link it to another. Connect notes to people, tasks and bookmarks. The knowledge graph builds itself as you write — no manual arrangement needed.
STEP 03
Your connected graph becomes a knowledge base you can question. Ask anything — the AI searches your own notes, decisions and relationships and answers from your actual context, not the internet.
If you capture information and struggle to connect it — Dotstell is for you.
Track 1-on-1s, decisions, team context and follow-ups. Never walk into a meeting unprepared again.
Connect customer conversations to product decisions. See the thread between a user complaint and a shipped feature.
Link technical decisions to the discussions that created them. Build a second brain for your codebase.
Connect ideas across papers, sources and people. Build knowledge that compounds over time.
Native desktop app
Powered by Tauri — not Electron. The installer is ~10 MB, launches instantly, and uses your OS's own webview.
Windows
Windows 10 / 11
Requires Windows 10 or later · ~10 MB
macOS
macOS 11+
Requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later · ~10 MB
Linux
Ubuntu / Debian / AppImage
Ubuntu 22.04+ or any modern distro · ~10 MB
Windows may show a SmartScreen warning on first run — click More info → Run anyway. macOS users: right-click the .dmg and choose Open on first launch. Linux AppImage: run chmod +x *.AppImage before launching. These prompts will go away once the app is code-signed.
What's new
Open source
Dotstell is fully open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host it on your own server. Inspect every line of code. Contribute to make it better. Your data never belongs to us.
Your data, your server
Self-host on any server. Import from Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and Keep, and export everything as plain files any time. Zero vendor lock-in.
AGPL-3.0 licensed
Free to use, fork and modify. Built for the community.
Built in public
Every commit, every decision made openly on GitHub.
Community driven
Features shaped by real users, not investor roadmaps.
The ecosystem
Dotstell is the first app in a long-term open source ecosystem. Every future product shares the same knowledge graph underneath.