Zettory
Keep the note durable
A useful local-first note should remain understandable outside the application. Markdown and ordinary image assets make your core knowledge easier to back up, inspect, and move.
Let richer tools sit on top
Kanban boards, semantic search, embeddings, and RAG can add leverage without becoming the only representation of your knowledge.
Separate storage from retrieval
Folders are good for ownership and backup. Search is better when you do not remember where something lives. A strong personal knowledge workflow can use both.
Use local AI as a retrieval layer
Question answering becomes more useful when the model receives relevant note context first and returns citations to the source material.
How Zettory applies local-first
Zettory keeps notes, boards, the knowledge index, embeddings, and knowledge-base Q&A on the Mac. Network access remains separate for explicit operations such as downloads, updates, licensing, and website analytics.