Features
Everything MindLake does, grouped the way you work: keeping what you manage in order, the tools that save you time, and meetings that write themselves up.
01/Organise
Notes, tasks, lists and canvases, together in one vault of plain files you own. Everything is one click from everything else.
Type ~, # or @ as you write and the note is filed, tagged and linked to its people. With AI on, it can do the filing for you. One click on a meeting starts its note, titled, with everyone who’s coming. Underneath, it’s one plain .md file you can open in anything, or take anywhere.
Type @ for a person, ~ for a folder, # for a tag and - for a note type. Autocomplete files it before you finish the word, and the Markdown stays plain.
Every - [ ] you’ve ever typed, gathered into one list without copying a thing. Your meetings’ action items land there too, with the owner and due date taken from what was said. Tick one here and it’s ticked in its note. No second app to keep fed, nothing to fall out of step.
“This weekend” or “12 Oct”, p1 to p4, #tag, @person, ~folder. Each piece lights up the moment MindLake understands it.
Canvases live in your library beside your notes and lists, on your Mac and your iPhone. Each one is saved in an open diagram format, so it’s never trapped in MindLake.
An infinite dotted page for the plan, the org chart, or the argument that won’t come out straight in prose. Boxes snap to the grid. Connectors turn corners and carry labels. Frames keep a group together. Export a crisp PNG, or an SVG you can keep editing anywhere.
Put a live note on the canvas with ⌘L, or turn any box into a real note when the idea outgrows it. Pictures and web pages go on too, and a canvas can sit inside a note, drawn right where you link it.
Ask for a diagram in a sentence and the AI lays one out. Ask for a change, and the boxes you placed by hand stay exactly where they are. Any AI change can be undone. Paste a Mermaid chart and it becomes boxes you can move.
02/Tools
Talk instead of typing, lift the words off any screen, and keep every source beside the note that needs it.
Screenshots and quick notes from anywhere on your Mac, filed where the rest of your work lives. No switching windows.
One shortcut takes the shot, in any app. One window marks it up, hides what’s private and frames it.
Search your notes, tasks, contacts and sources without opening a window. Pull up a person, copy their number, see whose birthday is next. Then carry on.
Point at the notch and it drops open: your next meeting, dictation, captures and a teleprompter. While you dictate or record, it widens either side of the camera, with its controls in reach. On a screen without a notch, a thin handle at the top does the same.
Hold Fn and talk, in any app. Let go, and the words are typed where your cursor is, minus the ums, with every correction you’ve taught it. Transcribed on your Mac, like everything else.
Average typing and speaking speeds.
The deck from the meeting. The paper behind the argument. The page you meant to come back to. Keep each one with the note it belongs to, read by your Mac and ready to quote.
Drop a PDF, a link, a screenshot or an old voice memo into the note it belongs to. Your Mac reads the text, even from a scanned page. Ask a question, and the AI answers from your sources and says which one it used.
Hand it a PDF, a deck, a spreadsheet, a recording or a video, and get a note back. The words arrive as Markdown, the charts and slides as pictures, and the original stays attached, so you can always check where a line came from.
Say what you’re trying to understand. MindLake writes the searches, reads the results, drops what you already have, and hands you a shortlist with a reason for each. Nothing is added until you press Save. With a model on your Mac, only the search itself goes out.
Titles, summaries and speaker names can come from a model on your Mac, with no key and no network. Want more? Connect Claude or OpenAI and ask your whole vault a question. Every answer says where it came from.
03/Meetings
Record any call with no bot in the room. MindLake works out who said what, files the note on your calendar and links everyone who was there.
Give the conversation your full attention. MindLake records the call, works out who said what, and hands you a note you can act on. Every word is transcribed on your Mac. Drop in a podcast, an interview or an old voice memo, and it does the same.
Meetings, calls, podcasts, video. Record, and the transcript, the summary and the actions land in your vault, with the actions already on your task list.
Record from the menu bar or a keystroke.
Your voice and theirs, on separate channels.
99 languages
Transcribed on your Mac, on the Neural Engine.
Every speaker separated and diarised.
Name a voice once and it’s known next time.
Or drop in audio or video you already have.
Dictate or record, with the filler trimmed.
A finished note, in plain Markdown you own.
When your ten o’clock starts, one click gives you its note: titled, with everyone invited, and already recording. You start typing instead of setting up.
Every day with something on for the next three months, weekends and all-day events included. One line per meeting: its calendar’s colour, how you’ll attend, and who’s coming.
Read the docsOpen anyone in your address book and read back every meeting and note they appear in. No CRM to keep up to date. It builds itself from the notes you were writing anyway.
The contacts already on your Mac. Add, edit and group them here, merge the duplicates it finds, update a whole team at once, and see how many notes each person turns up in.
Read the docsCatch the thought in the corridor and watch the words appear as you talk, transcribed on the phone itself. Your Mac works out who said what when you sit down. It all travels over your own iCloud: no account of ours in the middle, nothing of yours on our servers.
A real Mac app
Not a website in a window. It opens instantly, ⌃1 to ⌃9 jump to any section, and it keeps itself up to date. macOS 15 or later.
iPhone companion
Notes, lists, canvases and tasks in your pocket. Start a note, a task or a recording from Siri or Shortcuts.
Your iCloud, your sync
Notes move between your devices over iCloud Drive. No MindLake account needed.
A complete notes app
Twelve more things you’d otherwise keep in five apps. They all read and write the same files in your vault, so nothing needs syncing by hand.
Recordings and imports are transcribed on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Record, transcribe, search and write with the Wi-Fi off.
Parakeet runs on the Neural Engine. No server, no API call, no queue.
Every note is a .md file in a folder you choose. Lists are CSV.
Nothing to sign up for to try it. Any AI keys stay in your macOS Keychain.
Seal a note and it’s encrypted on disk. Not even the AI can read it.
Who needs a second brain, when you have a MindLake?
Apple silicon or Intel · macOS 15 or later
