Tasks from text
Action items are Markdown checkboxes with due dates, priorities and @people. See every task across your whole vault, grouped, filtered or as a board.
Organisation, made effortless.
Notes that arrange themselves, transcribe your meetings and build smart context, all saved in plain Markdown you own.
Early access for Mac is rolling out now. No spam, just a launch note.
- On-device on Apple Silicon
- Private by default
- macOS 15 or later
A notes app that gives you super powers
A meeting becomes a note: transcribed, summarised, typed into your vault.
* The demo above is an interactive showcase. The real thing looks even better.
Notes
Plain markdown, superpowered.
Every note is a plain markdown file you own. On top of that file: inline triggers that organise as you type, meeting notes prefilled from your calendar, heading navigation for long documents, and optional Git version control.
MindLake · Notes
Acme kickoff
Rollout starts next week. Filing this one properly:
-plan@anna:work/acme#kickoff|
Plantype
Thoughttype
Anna Riveracontact
Andy Chencontact
work/acmefolder
work/archivefolder
kickoffnew tag
launchtag
- type · @person · : folder · # tagTasks
Manage all your tasks centrally.
Your to-dos already live in your notes as plain - [ ] lines. MindLake gathers every one into a single Tasks view, captured in the language you think in, organised however suits the moment, and always written back to the note it came from.
MindLake · Tasks
Tasks12 openSearch
Pay invoice tomorrow !high #finance @kyle|
Add→TomorrowHighfinancekyle
Today3
Pay invoice
TomorrowHigh#finance
Reply to Anna about the venue
Offsite planning
Book the dentist
Personal
This week2
Draft the Q3 summary
MediumQ3 report
Plan the team offsite
Offsite planning
Transcribe
The way people actually talk, turned into a note you can use
Record meetings live, turn any audio or video into text. Text that becomes a cleansed and tagged source for your personal AI to read, and that can be pulled into your notes. Turn podcasts, YouTube videos and meetings into actions or content.
From audio to answers
Transcribe anything: meetings, podcasts, video, calls.
No copy-pasting transcripts between apps. Record, and the transcript, the summary and the action items land in your vault seconds later.
Step 01
Hit record
Start from the menu bar, a keystroke, or drop in an audio or video file you already have. A floating HUD shows a live level meter and timer.
Step 02
Transcribe
NVIDIA Parakeet on the Neural Engine: word-level timestamps, 25+ languages, and speakers separated automatically.
Step 03
Get a finished note
An on-device summary with topics, decisions and action items, written to plain Markdown you own.
Schedule
Your calendar, where the notes are.
MindLake reads your calendar and keeps the week beside your vault. Meeting notes are created from the event itself, and stay linked to it afterwards.
MindLake · Schedule
Mon20Tue21Wed22Thu23Fri24Sat25Sun26
Jul 23 · Today · Thursday
Nothing scheduled.
Jul 24 · Tomorrow · Friday
11:00–11:30Priya : Kyle 1:1
TeamsPriya, Kyle
17:00–18:00Car theory test, DVSA
In person
Jul 25 · Saturday
10:00–10:30Book Porto stag hotel
Reminder
Contacts
Every note knows who was in the room.
MindLake uses the contacts already on your Mac. When a note names one of them it links the two, so every person builds up a history you can read back later.
MindLake · Contacts
ContactsSearch
PSPriya Shah07700 900461priya@acme.co14 notes
TRTom Reilly07700 900118tom@acme.co9 notes
JOJane Okafor07700 900734jane@northwind.io6 notes
MBMarco Bianchi07700 900285marco@northwind.io3 notes
A complete notes app
A place your work lives
The rest of the app: tasks, search, contacts, tables and a graph, all reading from the same Markdown files.
Knowledge graph
A force-directed graph links notes by shared people, tags and folders. Pan, zoom and double-click to open. Months of meetings become a map.
Built-in contacts
A full contacts view backed by your Mac’s address book. Search, edit, batch-tag and de-duplicate. It is how speakers get real names.
Instant search
Full-text search across every note, title and transcript in milliseconds. Semantic “ask your vault” search is on the way.
Tables & lists
Lightweight tables stored as plain CSV in your vault. Edit in MindLake, open in any spreadsheet. They round-trip cleanly.
Import & Share
Drag in WAV, M4A, MP3 and more, or send straight from Voice Memos with “Save to MindLake” in the macOS Share menu.
Typography
Body, heading and code fonts, size, line height, column width and spacing, all live, applied to open notes instantly.
Audio on your terms
Choose what happens to recordings: keep them, wipe on transcribe, or delete after 7 or 30 days. Per note or globally.
A vault you own
One Markdown file per note in a folder you choose, synced over iCloud Drive. Delete the app and your notes are still just files.
AI Agents
Point any AI at your vault
Local first, and local is enough. Summaries, titles and action items come from a model running on your Mac, with no key, no network and nothing to leak. It is also compatible with all the cloud models.
- On-device by default. Nothing to set up.
- Cloud when you want it. Subscription, key, or terminal.
- Your own agent. A real terminal, open in your vault.
Apple Foundation ModelsOn-device, no keyLocal
ClaudeYour subscription or keyCloud
Qwen 3.59B and 14BLocal
OpenAIGPT and Codex, your keyCloud
Gemma 412B QAT and 26BLocal
GrokxAI, your keyCloud
OllamaAny local model you pullLocal
OpenRouterOne key, many modelsCloud
GLM 4.7FlashLocal
LlamaVia OllamaLocal
MistralVia OllamaLocal
DeepSeekVia OllamaLocal
Built for privacy from the ground up
Audio never leaves
Recordings and imports are transcribed on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.
Offline
Record, transcribe, summarise and search with the Wi-Fi switched off.
Local models
Parakeet runs on the Neural Engine. No server, no API call, no queue.
Plain Markdown
Every note is a .md file in a folder you choose. Tables are CSV.
No account
Nothing to sign up for. Any AI keys stay in the macOS Keychain.
Locked when shared
Publish a single note and lock it behind its own password.
Native iOS companion
Record on the go, transcribe at home
The iPhone companion captures and reads your notes on the move, syncing through your own iCloud. On the desk, MindLake is built natively for macOS: menu-bar recording, a vibrant three-pane window, and full keyboard control.
Native for macOS 15+
SwiftUI & Apple Silicon, designed for the Mac you already use.
iPhone companion
Record and review on the go. Full parity is on the way.
Your iCloud, your sync
Notes move between devices over iCloud Drive, with no MindLake account required.
Who it’s for
For those who make the complex simple
If your work happens in meetings, calls and interviews, and the details matter, MindLake is for you.
Consultants & client teams
Every client call captured, summarised and filed. Billable context you can actually find again.
Founders & product managers
Turn standups, user calls and 1:1s into decisions and action items without taking notes by hand.
Lawyers & professional services
Confidential conversations transcribed on-device. Nothing leaves your machine, by design.
Researchers & journalists
Accurate, timestamped, speaker-attributed interviews you can quote with confidence.
Sales & customer success
Discovery and renewal calls become searchable records, with commitments tracked as tasks.
Therapists & coaches
Private session notes that stay private, local-first, in a vault only you can open.
Pricing
The app is free. You only pay to share.
The full capture-and-notes experience is free and on-device. Join the waitlist. Early supporters get a founder rate on Pro.
Questions
Good things to know
Does my audio get uploaded anywhere?
No. Recording, transcription, speaker separation and summaries all run on your Mac using the Apple Neural Engine. Audio and transcripts never leave your machine unless you explicitly connect a cloud AI and run it on a note.
Do I need an internet connection?
No. The full workflow (record, transcribe, summarise, edit, search) works completely offline. Cloud AI providers are optional and opt-in per action.
What does it cost?
The Mac app is free, including on-device transcription and summaries. A paid Pro tier (for publishing notes to the web and, later, hosted sync) is coming, and waitlist members get a founder rate.
Which AI does it use?
On-device Apple Foundation Models by default. No key, no network. You can optionally connect Claude, OpenAI or a local Ollama model with your own key or login when you want more capable summaries and vault-wide answers.
What format are my notes in?
Plain Markdown with YAML frontmatter, one file per note, alongside the audio and any CSV tables, in a folder you choose. If you ever stop using MindLake, your notes are still just files you can open anywhere.
What do I need to run it?
A Mac on Apple Silicon running macOS 15 or later. An iPhone companion app handles capture and review on the go, syncing through your own iCloud.
Which languages are supported?
Transcription covers English plus 25 European languages out of the box, with broader coverage planned via additional on-device models.
Can I share a note with someone?
Yes. That’s where mindlake.app comes in. You’ll be able to publish any single note to a clean web page, optionally protected with its own password, straight from the app.
Always a step ahead.
Join the waitlist for early access to MindLake for Mac. Meetings, notes, tasks and the people in them, organised as you go and saved in Markdown you own.