iCloud Drive already syncs files between machines for free — so I didn't build a sync layer, I just pointed a folder at it.
What that actually meant in building:
- Notes that are just files Every note is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter for its metadata, so the data stays inspectable and greppable in Finder and survives the app itself. There's no export step, because there was never a lock-in format to escape.
- Backlinks computed fresh, not stored Wiki-style links in a note's body become a graph of backlinks, recomputed on every read rather than written to disk, so they can never drift out of date the way a cached index can.
- Nothing to install to run it A zero-dependency Node server serves a no-build single-page app for capturing, browsing, and linking notes, plus a force-directed graph view and a slide-style "Present" mode that walks the link graph.
