Tasks from text
Write “- [ ] call the supplier” in a note and it becomes a real task, with its date, priority and the person it belongs to. Every one you have ever written, in one place.
Organisation, made effortless.
Your meetings write themselves up and your notes file themselves, in plain Markdown that stays on your Mac.
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
Walk out of the meeting with the note already written, in a file you own.
* The demo above is an interactive showcase. The real thing looks even better.
Notes
Manage everything in markdown.
Type the way you think and the note sorts out its own folder, tags and people as it goes. Meetings arrive already titled from your calendar. Underneath, it is still one plain .md file you can open in anything, or take somewhere else entirely.
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
Your to-do list was in your notes all along.
Every - [ ] you have ever typed, gathered into one list without you copying a thing. Tick it here and the note it came from is ticked too, so there is no second app to keep fed and nothing to fall out of step.
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
Give the room your full attention. MindLake records the call, works out who said what, and hands you a note you can actually act on, with the audio and every word of it staying on your Mac. Drop in a podcast, an interview or an old voice memo and it does the same.
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
Pull calendar info into plaintext
The note for your ten o’clock is waiting at ten o’clock, titled, dated and carrying everyone who was invited. You start typing into it instead of setting it up.
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.
Open anyone in your address book and read back every meeting, note and promise they appear in. No CRM to keep up to date: it builds itself out of the notes you were writing anyway.
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
AI that helps you shine
Nine more things you would otherwise keep in five apps, all reading and writing the same Markdown files, so nothing has to be kept in sync by hand.
Knowledge graph
Six months of meetings stop being a folder and start being a map. Notes pull together around the people, tags and projects they share, so you can see what you have been circling.
Built-in contacts
The people on your Mac already, now attached to everything they have ever said to you. It is also how a voice in a recording gets a real name.
Instant search
Find the sentence you half remember, across every note and every transcript, before you have finished typing it. Asking your vault a real question is coming.
Tables & lists
Keep a table without leaving your notes, and open the same thing in Numbers or Excel tomorrow. It is a CSV sitting in your folder, so it goes wherever you do.
Import & Share
That interview on your phone, the webinar recording, a voice memo from the car. Drop it in, or send it over from the macOS share menu, and get a note back.
Typography
Make it read the way you like: the fonts, the size, the line height, the width of the column. It changes under your cursor as you tune it.
Audio on your terms
Decide how long a recording of other people lives on your disk. Keep it, bin it the moment it is transcribed, or give it a week. Per note, or as a rule.
A vault you own
Delete MindLake tomorrow and you still have everything: one Markdown file per note, in a folder you picked, on a Mac you own. No export, no goodbye email.
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
Catch the thought in the corridor, find it written up on the Mac when you sit down. It travels over your own iCloud, so there is no account of ours in the middle and nothing of yours on our servers.
Native for macOS 15+
A real Mac app, not a website in a window. It opens instantly and works entirely from the keyboard.
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.
Founders
Every pitch, standup and investor call filed and searchable, so you never repeat yourself in the next room.
Consultants
Client calls captured, summarised and billable, with the context that outlives the engagement.
Managers
1:1s and standups turn into decisions and action items, no notebook required.
Lawyers
Confidential conversations transcribed on-device. Nothing leaves your machine, by design.
Salespeople
Discovery and renewal calls become searchable records, with commitments tracked as tasks.
Researchers
Field interviews arrive timestamped and speaker-attributed, ready to code and quote.
Journalists
Every source on tape, cleanly transcribed, quotes you can trust before the deadline.
Therapists
Session notes that stay private, local-first, in a vault only you can open.
Coaches
Client sessions in one place, with follow-ups and homework tracked between them.
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.
A second brain that is also a full productivity suite. Capture everything you see and hear, arrive as the most prepared person in the room, and keep every word private by default. Free for Mac, nothing to sign up for, plain Markdown files you own.