Organizing isn't the point.
Finishing is.
A calm, local-first home for your projects, tasks, and notes
— where planning turns into doing.
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Another PM/note app?
I get the skepticism — the last thing anyone needs is another productivity app. I felt the same. I ran my whole life out of Obsidian and Notion — freelance work, side projects, family, a day job — updating the work doc, then the calendar, then a to-do app: the same task, three times. Every PM tool I tried was too heavy, built for dev teams, and paid.
But none of them fixed the real problem: a tidy system that never ships anything is just tidying. Every "second brain" I built became organizing for its own sake. AI could tidy it for me — but then it wasn't really mine, and I'd quietly stop.
So Kempt isn't another place to organize. It's where your context and notes turn into plans, and plans into finished work — one calm space, all plain Markdown on your own computer. I built it for myself first.
— Built by one person, for one person's many lives.
Everything in one calm place.
Plan, capture, and do — all in one space, without leaving Kempt.
Your day, in one view.
See exactly what to do today, pulled from every project. Check it off and it updates everywhere — no second to-do app.
One set of work. Every view.
Calendar, board, timeline, project map — the same tasks, seen the way you need them. Projects are a filter, not another silo.
Notes that lead to doing.
Wikilinks, backlinks, a graph, journal, and an infinite canvas — your knowledge wired straight into the work it should produce.
Launch plan
The goal of this launch is to ship Kempt v1.0 to the waitlist without overbuilding. Everything below the fold is optional — the only hard requirement is that a first-time user can install, create a workspace, and write their first note in under two minutes. Keep the surface small and the defaults sane.
Positioning
We lead with local-first personal project management, not "yet another notes app." The hero shows planning turning into doing. Detailed messaging lives in [[Positioning]], and the price tiers are tracked in [[Pricing]]. Distribution experiments belong in [[Channels]].
Release checklist
- ✓Finalize the pricing page copy
- ✓Set up the build pipeline on both machines
- Publish the launch post and email the waitlist
- Schedule the AMA for the week after release
- Write the FAQ and link it from the footer
Reminder: don't gate version history behind Pro. Local snapshots stay free in v1.0 — only cloud sync is paid. See [[Pricing]] for the boundary.
LLM-friendly by design.
It's all plain Markdown, so any LLM — Claude included — can read your full context and help you plan. Turn AI off and Kempt still works, completely.
Launch plan
We ship in three weeks. This note is the single source of truth for the launch — the goal is a calm, well-paced week where every task already exists before the day it's due, not a frantic scramble. Keep it lean: write the plan, then let Kempt turn it into scheduled work.
Week of the launch
The hero, the post, and the email are the three pieces that actually move the needle. Everything else supports them. Draft the landing page first since the copy feeds both the announcement post and the waitlist email — see [[Client — Acme]] for the tone we landed on.
- Design the landing hero
- Write the launch post
- Email the waitlist Jul 12
- Schedule the AMA
- Publish the launch post
“Ship the smallest thing that earns the first ten honest reviews. Then write the FAQ from the questions people actually ask.
Related: [[Trip to Lisbon]] blocks the week after, so the build pipeline and the signup bug both need to be closed before then. Ask Kempt to fan these out into dated tasks.
Your data is yours. Plainly.
Everything is .md on your computer. Open it in Obsidian or VS Code, anytime.
Runs fully offline. AI is optional — turn it off and nothing breaks.
No account to start. Your files never depend on us.
A calmer, more finished day.
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