Personal notes, written in MDX.

Lamina is a desktop app for the notes you keep at home. A book on the sofa, a weekend at the coast, the tomato bed, a jar of starter. You write in MDX, so components like callouts, ratings, quotes, progress bars, timelines, galleries, metrics, charts, definitions, math, and live tables or lists that pull from other notes render right inside the note. The source stays plain text you own, in an ordinary folder on your computer. There is no cloud account.

It is for people who want their everyday notes as files they can keep. Lamina has been run on macOS so far. It is built with Tauri. There is a raw source mode, and light and dark themes are both in the app.

A light-theme reading note titled Salt and Cedar, with a Reading badge, a four-star rating, a quote attributed to Mara Ellison, a pages progress bar at page 180 of 286, plus backlinks and a local graph. — A reading note. A Badge, a four-star Rating, a Quote with attribution, and a pages Progress bar sit in the note, with backlinks and a local graph beside it.

The same Salt and Cedar note in dark theme, shown as raw source, with Badge, Rating, and Quote tags next to the Markdown. — The same note in raw source, in dark theme. The Badge, Rating, and Quote tags sit next to the Markdown. The file is still plain text.

Other notes in the same folder

These are from the same set of everyday notes: a trip, the garden, the kitchen, and a list at home.

A light-theme trip note titled October coast, with a warning callout about tides, a dated timeline for the long weekend, and a gallery of two photos of the path and the water. — A trip note. A warning Callout about the tides, a dated Timeline for the weekend, and a Gallery of two photos.

A light-theme garden note with two metrics, 14 ripe tomatoes and 3 days since rain, a bar chart of tomatoes picked each day of the week, and a beans progress bar at 60 percent. — A garden note. Two Metrics, a bar Chart of the week's tomatoes, and a Progress bar for the beans.

A light-theme kitchen note about sourdough, with definition blocks for levain and hydration, and a math formula showing 750 over 1000 equals 75 percent. — A kitchen note about sourdough. Definition blocks for levain and hydration, and a Math formula for the hydration.

A light-theme home note with a table of books on the shelf, including Salt and Cedar and The Hobbit, and a list of upcoming trip notes, October coast and Summer Vacation, plus backlinks. — A home note. A Table of books on the shelf, and a List of trip notes pulled from other notes, plus backlinks.

Around the notes

The editor also has live preview, an outline and backlinks, full-text search, daily notes, and a knowledge graph over the same files.

Lamina editor in light theme, open to a Markdown note, with a file sidebar, an outline, backlinks, links from the note, and a small local graph. — The editor, with an outline, backlinks, and a local graph for the open note.

Lamina editor in dark theme, showing a live preview of a Markdown note with formatted text, a list, and a code block, plus backlinks and a local graph. — Live preview in dark theme.

Full-text search in Lamina, with a query typed in the sidebar and matching notes listed below it. — Full-text search across the library.

A daily note open in Lamina, titled as a date, with wiki links and a tag in the text, plus backlinks in the sidebar. — A daily note, kept as an ordinary file in the journal folder.

Knowledge graph view of a Lamina library, with notes as nodes clustered around a hub, and filters for folder, tag, and type. — The knowledge graph over the same local files.