Your private AI second brain — capture anything, understand everything, on your device.
Memonaut is a lightweight desktop application that runs silently in the background. Hit a hotkey on anything you read — an article, a research paper, a code snippet — and it's captured instantly. Later, have a natural conversation with everything you've saved.
Tools like Notion and Obsidian require discipline to use consistently. Rewind AI records everything and sends it to the cloud. Memonaut sits in the middle — you choose what to capture, and everything stays local by default.
Capture → hotkey or floating button on any text
Store → saved locally on your machine
Chat → ask questions about what you've captured
- Capture hotkey: Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Q
- Snippets are stored locally in
snippets.sqliteunder your app data directory.
Not every laptop can run a local LLM comfortably. Memonaut gives you a choice:
| Option | How | Privacy |
|---|---|---|
| Local model (0.5B) | Runs fully on your device | Complete |
| Hugging Face API | Free inference API, bring your own key | Partial |
| Gemini API | Google's free tier, bring your own key | Partial |
You pick what works for your machine. No option is forced on you.
- Desktop — Electron + React + TypeScript
- UI — Framer Motion + Tailwind CSS
- Backend — Python + FastAPI
- RAG — FAISS + sentence-transformers
- Storage — SQLite
🚧 Early development. Not ready for use yet.
Building in public — star the repo to follow along.
MIT © 2025 Madhan