Independent · 2024
Client
Independent
Year
2024
Discipline
Lab · AI
Overview
Field Notes started as a personal frustration: too many browser tabs, meeting transcripts, and voice memos that never got synthesised into anything useful.
We built a local-first research notebook with a retrieval layer that indexes everything you read and hear. When you open a new note, the system surfaces relevant fragments from your history and drafts an outline. The LLM runs entirely on-device via llama.cpp bindings, so no data ever leaves the machine. The interface is intentionally minimal — a single pane with a command palette.
What we did
- AI Systems
- Web Engineering
Outcome
Internal daily driver for the Ascnd team. Open-sourced in Q3 2024 — 1.2k GitHub stars in the first month.
“Internal daily driver for the Ascnd team. Open-sourced in Q3 2024 — 1.2k GitHub stars in the first month.”