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Field Notes

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.”

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