--- title: kempt format: plain markdown accounts_required: 0 opens_in: obsidian, vscode, anything price: free at core lock_in: none made_in: kempt itself, shipped in the open --- # 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. [Download free](https://kempt.md/dl/win) Free forever. No account needed. Your files stay on your disk. > Tuesday morning. Three lives, one list. Each row is its own file on your disk. Check it once and it is done everywhere. --- `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. --- ## One file. Every view. `~/vault/freelance/HS-4.md` One Markdown file sits behind every view. Today, Calendar, Board, Timeline, Project Map. Tick it once and it is done everywhere. 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. ### Left a mess at 11pm. Woke to a plan. `11:04 pm → 7:00 am` Turn on the AI and ask for tomorrow. It reads the rambling, keeps the reasoning, and files dated tasks where they belong. 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. 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. ### Watch it work. `~/vault/clients/hana-studio.md` Ask it to plan your Tuesday. It reads your notes and drafts the plan. Every change it makes shows up line by line. ### It writes down what it learns. In your files. `the Learning tab · skills by area` 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. ### The plan leaves the house with you. `4:47 pm · out the door` 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 `Today · Tue · 8:14 pm` - [x] ~~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. The same file, twice: `~/vault/tuesday.md · Kempt` and in any editor. [see the real file](https://kempt.md/vault/tuesday.md) ### Every save, kept. Free. `_config/snapshots/` Notes and tasks snapshot themselves as you work. Open the history, read the diff, restore any point. Restores save the current version first. ### Local is free. Forever. Everything on your computer costs nothing, no account. You pay only when our servers do work for you. - **Free**: Notes, plans, boards, the graph, local version history, and the AI on your own Claude login. - **Sync, from $5 a month** (beta): 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 mobile** (coming soon): The same notes, native on iOS and Android. Not a web wrapper, real apps in your pocket. - **Dispatch** (coming soon): Send your desktop's AI work from your phone. Leave the house, come home to green checks. ### Want the full catalog? The home page is the story. Each layer has its own deep dive. - **the plan layer**: Today, Calendar, Board, Timeline, Project Map, life areas, goals, subtasks. [see the layer](https://kempt.md/features/planning) - **the note layer**: Markdown editor, wikilinks and backlinks, the graph, instant search, version history. [see the layer](https://kempt.md/features/knowledge) - **the ai layer**: Claude by default, Codex in beta. Learning you can edit, scheduled runs, permission modes. [see the layer](https://kempt.md/features/ai) - **the sync layer**: End-to-end encrypted sync, in beta. Area-by-area control. Native phone apps on the way. [see the layer](https://kempt.md/features/sync) --- Organizing was never the point. [[Finishing]] is. --- ## Start from where you are. Four short tours. Same app. - **coming from Obsidian?** Your notes open as they are. Links, backlinks, the graph, and a Today view on top. [take the tour](https://kempt.md/vs/obsidian) - **coming from Notion?** No setup weekend. Write a task and the board, calendar, and Today already exist. [take the tour](https://kempt.md/vs/notion) - **living in ChatGPT?** An AI that stops forgetting you. Every lesson it learns is a note you can read and edit. [take the tour](https://kempt.md/features/ai) - **new to tools like this?** You wrote it down. You still forgot it. Take the five minute tour. [take the tour](https://kempt.md/help) --- `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. - `shipped` **Desktop, free**: The full workspace, today: notes, plans, boards, journal, graph, and the AI. Free, no account. - `beta` **Encrypted Sync**: Encrypted so that we cannot read your notes. Your key, your recovery code. - `building` **Native mobile**: Real native apps for iOS and Android. The same notes, in your pocket. - `planned` **Dispatch, your AI from your phone**: Send your desktop's AI work from the bus. Come home to green checks. --- - [x] Opens in Obsidian - [x] Opens in VS Code - [x] Opens in 2036 **Always your Markdown.** ## Start finishing. [Download free](https://kempt.md/dl/win) Free. No account. Your files stay on your disk.