Tentanote
It comes in
Contacts, Calendar, Mail, Reminders, Notes and Bear, your files and downloads, your browsing, the tabs you won't close — and anything you send it from any app.
A native Mac app · being built now
Saving something is usually how you lose it.
Tentanote reads what your Mac already holds — mail, calendar, notes, files, tabs — and sorts it into the projects of your life. Every connection says why. There are no folders to keep.
Recorded from the app, running on a made-up life.
How it works
Your Mac already knows most of your life.
It is spread across a dozen apps that don't talk to each other. Tentanote doesn't ask you to move out of them. It reads what they hold, and puts it together.
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It sorts itself
What it keeps gathers into spaces — a trip, a renovation, a job — without you making them.
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It says why
Two things that belong together are linked, and the link says so in words: both tagged #kyoto, on the same list, mentioned in this note.
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You find it again
Search, or just look. What you want is next to what it goes with, not where you happened to put it.
Up close
One thing at a time.
A minute on one part of the app, in use. Recorded from the app itself, running on a made-up life.
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Agents 2:16
You @ one on a card, the way you'd mention a person, and it works through the details on your canvas with you. It only adds, never changes or deletes what you made.
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Tabs, Back and Forward 1:14
Several places open at once, each tab with its own way back, and all of them where you left them tomorrow.
On YouTube
Why this time
Keep the signal. Lose the noise.
Evernote, Roam, a folder of Obsidian notes: every tool for organising a life made the same promise and handed you the sorting. The tool was a promise; the sorting was homework. The notes piled up, the pile stopped being worth searching, and people left.
Tentanote takes in everything without turning your life into a sorting job. It works out what matters from what you do — who was there, what you came back to — connects it, and lets the rest fade into the background, still there when you search. The most it ever asks of you is a correction in passing.
Read the essayYours
It's a file on your Mac.
Tools like this have a habit of keeping what you put in them. So here is the promise, in one place.
- A file you can read. Your workspace lives on your disk, and you can open it and take it anywhere.
- Free on your Mac, without limits. The Mac app is local and unlimited. Nothing of yours is held back.
- Sync that can't read it. Sync to your other devices, when it comes, is the paid part — built so the service carries your workspace without being able to read it.
- Nothing lost if you stop. Stop paying for sync and everything keeps working, in full, on your Mac.
Be there when it's ready.
A small, hand-picked beta first — chosen for lives unlike the one it was built on — then everyone.
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