Organizing isn't the point. Finishing is.
A calm, local-first home for your projects, tasks, and notes — where planning turns into doing.
Free forever · No account · Your data stays on your computer
Why I built this
Organizing was never the point.
I ran my whole life out of Obsidian and Notion — freelance work, side projects, family, a day job. Tasks piled up across a dozen tools. I'd update 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.
And I kept hitting the same wall: 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.
I wanted the opposite: a place where context and notes turn into plans, and plans turn into finished work. So I built Kempt — for myself first. One calm space, all plain Markdown on my own computer, where planning finally becomes doing.
— Built by one person, for one person's many lives.
What you get
Everything in one calm place.
Today
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.
Views
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.
Knowledge
Notes that lead to doing.
Wikilinks, backlinks, a graph, journal, and an infinite canvas — your knowledge wired straight into the work it should produce.
AI
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.
Your data
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.
Free forever · No account · Yours, in plain text.