About OikoNotes

OikoNotes is a personal knowledge management system built around two ideas: capture should be frictionless, and notes should be useful after you write them.

Most notes end up forgotten. You write something down, it disappears into a folder, and you never see it again. OikoNotes uses a zettelkasten-inspired approach — wikilinks, atomic notes, a knowledge graph — combined with AI that handles the tedious parts of organisation. Tags, connections, summaries, transcription. The system does the filing so you can focus on the thinking.

The goal is a zero-friction space to throw ideas into. Quick capture from anywhere in the app, a processing queue to review and refine, and AI suggestions that help sort and connect things over time. Everything the AI proposes goes through you first.

How it’s built

The backend is Rust with Leptos for server-side rendering. Data lives in SQLite. The desktop app uses Tauri and works fully offline. AI features use the Mistral API.

It’s a solo project for now. The codebase is straightforward — no microservices, no complex infrastructure. SQLite handles storage, a single background worker processes AI jobs, and the whole thing runs on modest hardware.

What drives it

Notes, tasks, budgeting, and personal organisation tend to end up scattered across too many tools. OikoNotes puts them in one place with a shared context — your notes can reference your tasks, your calendar connects to your projects, and the knowledge graph ties it all together. One system, one database, your data.