Every life you live,planned and finished.

You write the same task in three apps and still forget it. In Kempt, what you write becomes a task, and every morning Today gathers work, family, and the side project into one list.

Free forever. No account needed. Your files stay on your disk.

Today · a view, not a file
Today every area, one list

Each row is its own file on your disk. Check it once and it is done everywhere.

Tuesday morning. Three lives, one list.

the stack you run today

One project, five apps.

Notes in Obsidian. Tasks in Todoist. Dates in a calendar. The project in Notion or Linear. Each app holds a piece. None holds the project.

notes app

Hana Studio: pays net-30.

Invoice after the handoff.

the why lives here

to-do app

Invoice Hana Studio

just the title, nothing else

calendar

Jul 25 Invoice

knows when, not why

ai chat

Which client? What terms?

Paste the brief again.

never has the brief

And the AI is the worst of it. You explain your own project again. Every time.

Kempt puts all five in one workspace, connected. Explain the project once. It stays explained.

~/vault/freelance/HS-4.md

One file. Every view.

One Markdown file sits behind every view. Today, Calendar, Board, Timeline, Project Map. Tick it once and it is done everywhere.

Today
Tuesday, Jul 22 4 tasks
AddQ
Overdue 1
Booth time for the festival P1 D+2 family
Today 1
Poster board for Mina family
Upcoming 2
Invoice Hana Studio P2 D-3 freelance
Ship launch notes D-6 side-project
Calendar
July 2026
Month Week Day
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Ship launch notes
18
19
20
Poster board for Mina
21
22
Call the venue
23
24
25
Invoice Hana Studio
26
27
28
29
30
31
Aug 1
Board
To do 21

Invoice Hana Studio

P1 Jul 25

Poster board for Mina

New task
In progress 2

Call the venue

P2

Ship launch notes

New task
Done 01
Drag cards here

Invoice Hana Studio

P1 Jul 25
New task
Timeline
Day Week Month Quarter
Today
July
20 22 26 28 24
Call the venue
Invoice Hana Studio
Poster board for Mina
Ship launch notes
Call the venue
Invoice Hana Studio
Poster board for Mina
Ship launch notes
Project Map
Expand all Collapse to project Filter Done shown
Area freelance
Goal Grow freelance 2 projects 60%
Project Hana Studio 2 tasks 50%
Invoice Hana Studio
To do Done P1 Jul 25
Call the venue
In progress
Project Studio rebrand 1 task 20%
Draft the moodboard
To do Aug 3

Change the view, not the data.

one Tuesday, start to finish

This is Tuesday in Kempt.

No feature tour. One messy note becomes a plan, the plan gets done, and the AI learns your project on the way.

11:04 pm → 7:00 am

Left a mess at 11pm. Woke to a plan.

Turn on the AI and ask for tomorrow. It reads the rambling, keeps the reasoning, and files dated tasks where they belong.

braindump.md · 11:04 pm

Tuesday, late

The [[Hana Studio]] call ran long but landed. They want the full rebrand, moodboard first, and they pay net-30 like last time.

Mina's school festival is Friday. Poster board still not started, and the venue wants an answer before then.

Launch notes are already written in my head. Ship them tomorrow, then tell the beta list.

Cannot forget the invoice again.

Too tired to sort any of this. Tomorrow.

Today · Tue, Jul 2

4 tasks created

  • Invoice Hana Studio HS-4.md · due Jul 25
  • Poster board for Mina by Friday SF-3.md · due Fri
  • Ship launch notes LN-7.md · today
  • Call the venue before Friday SF-5.md · due Thu

Five rambling paragraphs became four dated tasks. The invoice landed on Jul 25 because the note says Hana pays net-30. It kept your reasoning, not just your to-do lines.

~/vault/clients/hana-studio.md

Watch it work.

Ask it to plan your Tuesday. It reads your notes and drafts the plan. Every change it makes shows up line by line.

AI
AI
Plan my Tuesday
You
plan my Tuesday
Assistant

Locked your Tuesday around the Hana Studio invoice. Updated the client note so the net-30 timing holds.

Edit clients/hana-studio.md
+ 1 Added − 1 Removed
Pays net-30 on invoices.
+Pays net-30. Draft the invoice on the 25th.
0:04 Writing the response… Stop
Skills & memory: freelance · Auto
Workspace: freelance
Current document: tuesday.md
Type a message… (Enter to send · @ to mention · ⌘J for commands)
ModelClaude EffortHigh Edit

the Learning tab · skills by area

It writes down what it learns. In your files.

Every lesson the AI picks up becomes a skill note, filed in your folder, under the life it belongs to. Open one, fix a line, approve it, or delete it. Nothing about you lives in a black box.

Learning
Learning Skills Memory
Procedures the AI learned. Review pending ones to activate.
Global 1
  • Weekly planning rhythm Plan on Sundays, execute on Mondays. AI-learned Active
freelance 2
  • Invoicing Hana Studio Draft the net-30 invoice on the 25th. AI-learned 2 files Active
    _agent/skills/invoicing-hana-studio.md
    # Invoicing Hana Studio
    
    Hana Studio pays net-30. Draft the invoice on the 25th.
    
    1. Pull the month's hours from clients/hana-studio.md
    2. Itemize from tuesday.md and the week's work notes
    3. Draft, apply net-30 terms, confirm before sending
    • templates/invoice.md1.2 KB
    • templates/line-items.md0.4 KB
  • Weekly client status update Summarize progress from tuesday.md every Friday. AI-learned Pending Approve
family 1
  • School festival prep Track sign-ups and supplies from family/school-festival.md. AI-learned Active
side-project 1

4:47 pm · out the door

The plan leaves the house with you.

Today, calendar, and notes ride in your pocket. And it works both ways: send a job from your phone, your desktop AI has it done before you are home.

Native mobile · building Dispatch · planned

Kempt mobile · Today (design preview)
Today every area, one list
2 of 4 done
Overdue 1
  • Reply to Hana Studio's scope email freelance
Today 4
  • Invoice Hana Studio freelance
  • Poster board for Mina by Friday family
  • Ship launch notes side-project
  • Call the venue before Friday family
Upcoming 3
  • Book Mina's dentist appointment family
  • Draft next week's client update freelance
  • Prep the beta changelog side-project
Dispatch (planned) · phone to desktop
Dispatch your desktop AI, from your phone
Draft the Hana Studio invoice and file it under freelance.
you · 8:12 am · sent from your phone
home desktop · running · reading [[clients/hana-studio.md]]
8:19 am Drafted. 2 files touched. Review when you are back. done

Every run is visible line by line on the desktop. Nothing hidden.

Today · Tue · 8:14 pm

Poster board for Mina by Friday SF-3.md

Checked once, done in every view. That is the whole pitch. Not more features. A Tuesday that actually finishes.

why kempt

Why this works when five apps didn't.

Three reasons. The receipts are right below.

One file, not five apps

Notes, tasks, dates, and the project live in the same Markdown files, and the AI works on those files too. Nothing to re-explain, nowhere to copy.

An AI that shows its work

It reads the project from your files, not from a pasted brief. What it learns lands as notes you can edit or delete, on your own login with no markup.

Yours, provably

Plain Markdown on your disk, with every save kept by free local version history. If you ever leave, everything still opens.

Your files. Actually yours.

Plain Markdown on your disk. Opens in Obsidian, VS Code, anything. Leave anytime. Everything still opens.

~/vault/tuesday.md · Kempt

areafreelance
relatedHana Studio

Tuesday

Client day. The Hana Studio invoice is set for the 25th: they pay net-30, so that is the day it goes out. Still need a booth time for the School festival, and the side-project launch page is close.

Turned last night's braindump into real tasks. Each line below is its own work item now, so it shows up in Today and on the Board, not buried in this note.

Braindump, 11pm

invoice hana studio
poster board for Mina by fri
ship launch notes
call the venue before friday

tuesday.md · any editor
area: freelancerelated: "[[Hana Studio]]"
# TuesdayClient day. The [[Hana Studio]] invoice is set for the 25th: they pay net-30, so that is the day it goes out. Still need a booth time for the [[School festival]], and the side-project launch page is close.Turned last night's braindump into real tasks. Each line below is its own work item now, so it shows up in Today and on the Board, not buried in this note.## Braindump, 11pminvoice hana studioposter board for Mina by friship launch notescall the venue before friday

_config/snapshots/

Every save, kept. Free.

Notes and tasks snapshot themselves as you work. Open the history, read the diff, restore any point. Restores save the current version first.

Version history · local, free
Version history · tuesday.md
  • Today 14:52 AI edit
  • Today 14:45 Auto save
  • Today 09:12 Manual
  • Mon 18:30 Auto save

14:45 to 14:52

# Tuesday

-Client day. The [[Hana Studio]] invoice is due soon.

+Client day. The [[Hana Studio]] invoice is set for the 25th: they pay net-30, so that is the day it goes out.

Still need a booth time for the [[School festival]].

Restore this version restores are undoable · current version saved first

pricing

Local is free. Forever.

Everything on your computer costs nothing, no account. You pay only when our servers do work for you.

Free

the whole desktop app

Notes, plans, boards, the graph, local version history, and the AI on your own Claude login.

Sync, from $5 a month Beta

encrypted sync

End-to-end encrypted sync across your computers, and your phone once the native apps land. Cloud version history included. Storage from 1 GB.

Coming to the same ladder

Native mobileBuilding

The same notes, native on iOS and Android. Not a web wrapper, real apps in your pocket.

DispatchPlanned

Send your desktop's AI work from your phone. Leave the house, come home to green checks.

Organizing was never the point. Finishing is.

the origin

Built from the overload it solves.

Kempt started inside the overload: a job, an old business, a family, a product to ship. Notes in Obsidian. Tasks in Notion and Todoist. Dates in a calendar. Context that never survived the gaps.

So we built the workspace where context holds. Kempt runs on Kempt: the plans, the releases, the roadmap below, all managed inside the product itself.

Free at the core. Shipping in the open.

Everything local is free, no account needed. Here is what is real today.

Open beta since Jul 6, 2026 · day 19 of building in public

shipped

Desktop, free

The full workspace, today: notes, plans, boards, journal, graph, and the AI. Free, no account.

beta

Encrypted Sync Beta

Encrypted so that we cannot read your notes. Your key, your recovery code.

building

Native mobile Building

Real native apps for iOS and Android. The same notes, in your pocket.

planned

Dispatch, your AI from your phone Planned

Send your desktop's AI work from the bus. Come home to green checks.

  • done: Opens in Obsidian
  • done: Opens in VS Code
  • done: Opens in 2036

Always your Markdown.

Start finishing.

Free. No account. Your files stay on your disk.