Allied Note
In development · Phase 0

In development · Phase 0 of 9

A notebook that starts from your goals.

Allied Note is an open-source notebook being built around one idea: what you write down today should connect to where you want to be in ten years. It is planned as a hosted app, an embed for other apps, and a repository you can run yourself.

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See how it will work Status and roadmap

Nothing here is available yet. The project is at its first phase: a code scaffold, written architecture decisions, and the planner’s date rules. Everything on this site describes what we plan to build, not what you can use today.

Three layers, one notebook

Each layer is useful alone. Together they keep daily work pointed at long-term goals.

  • Layer 1Planned

    Notes

    Notebooks hold tabs, tabs hold pages, and pages nest three levels deep. A rich text editor, search, backlinks and attachments, on web, desktop and mobile, with offline editing.

  • Layer 2Planned

    Planner

    A tab for each quarter with a page for each week, and a goal cascade that runs from ten years down to today. Every quarter is twelve execution weeks and a Review and Plan week.

  • Layer 3Planned

    Nabu

    The agent that reads your notebook, ties tasks to goals, proposes a plan for the day and hands work to other agents you connect. It asks before it deletes, sends or delegates.

The goal cascade

Each goal points at the goal one step above it. A task with no goal behind it gets flagged, so you can link it, or decide it does not belong on the list.

  1. 10 years Where is this going?
  2. 3 years What has to be true by then?
  3. 1 year What moves that this year?
  4. Quarter Twelve weeks of work, then a review
  5. Month What matters this month?
  6. Week What will you finish?
  7. Today What comes first?

How the cascade and the thirteen-week quarter will work

Built to be plugged in

The rule for the codebase is that every capability exists in the public API first. The web app will be one client of that API among several.

  • API, MCP server and CLI Planned

    A REST API, an MCP server so your own agents can read and write notes, and a command-line tool.

  • White-label embed Planned

    Other apps will be able to put the notebook inside their product, styled as their own, with no second login. How the embed is designed.

  • Self-host and fork Planned

    Open source, with the whole stack runnable from one compose file. The license is to be announced. Open source and self-hosting.

Plain facts

What is true today, including the parts a landing page usually leaves out.

Availability
Not available. There is no app to sign in to and no download. See the status page for what exists.
License
Open source, license to be announced. Until it is chosen, the code is all rights reserved and the repository is private.
Encryption
Version 1 will not have end-to-end encryption. Notes will be encrypted in transit and at rest, but the server will be able to read note content, because server-side search and Nabu need it. A private mode with keys held on your device is planned for later.
Pricing
Not set. A free plan, low-cost paid plans and free self-hosting are planned. Two promises are fixed: we will never limit the number of notes, and we will never put export behind a paywall.
Importing
Importers from Markdown folders and from other note apps are planned. None exists yet, and we will name sources only when they work.