Organizing isn't the point.
Finishing is.
A calm, local-first home for your projects, tasks, and notes.
Where thinking turns into doing.
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Organizing was never the point. Kempt turns your notes and context into plans, and plans into finished work, all in one calm space.
For one person's many lives
Freelance, side projects, family, work. Not built for a dev team.
Local-first, and yours
Plain Markdown on your computer. No cloud required, no lock-in.
Made to finish
Context becomes plans, plans become done. Not just tidy.
Notes that lead to doing.
Wikilinks, backlinks, a graph, journal, and an infinite canvas. Your knowledge feeds straight into your work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free forever · No account · Yours, in plain text.