SOON A new notebook for macOS

Think once. Find it forever.

Quill is a calm, fast notebook for your Mac. Catch a thought in one keystroke, let your notes link themselves, and ask them anything later. Everything stays on your Mac.

Join early readers. One email when it's ready, nothing else.

A day with Quill

Small moments, all day long.

A notes app earns its place in the little gaps of your day: the idea in the hallway, the meeting that runs long, the question at 10 pm. This is what those moments feel like.

7:42 AM · Coffee

Catch the thought before it's gone.

An idea lands while the kettle boils. Press ⌘ K, type, done. No folders to choose, no save button. Quill saves as you type.

Ideas stop living on receipts and in five different apps.

10:00 AM · Weekly sync

Meeting notes that connect themselves.

Type [[ and Quill suggests the note you mean. Link the project plan, and the plan now shows this meeting under Linked from. Your notes build a map as you go.

Context is one click away, not one search away.

2:30 PM · Deep work

Two hours. One paragraph in the light.

Focus mode (⌘ ⇧ D) clears the sidebar, the list and the toolbar, and dims every paragraph except the one you're writing.

You write instead of tidying.

6:15 PM · Other desk

Pick up on your other Mac.

Your Macs sync over your own Wi-Fi. Pair them once with a 6-digit code: no account, no cloud, nothing to install. If both Macs edited the same note, Quill merges the changes instead of throwing one away.

Your work follows you, and it never leaves your network.

9:40 PM · Winding down

Ask what you already know.

Press ⌘ J and ask in plain words. Quill finds the right notes, answers from them and shows its sources. Use your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Groq key, and nothing is sent until you ask.

Your notes start answering questions.

The difference

Less juggling. More thinking.

Before
With Quill
Ideas scattered across apps, tabs and sticky notes.
One library. A new note is one keystroke away.
Scrolling to find the thing you wrote in March.
Search 10,000 notes in about 20 milliseconds.
Your private thoughts on someone else's server.
A single file on your Mac. Works offline, no account.
Forty buttons staring back while you write.
Focus mode: just you and the sentence.
Notes locked in a format only one app can read.
Plain Markdown, ready to export whenever you like.
Everything in its place

Built for the way you think.

See how your ideas connect

The graph draws every link between your notes, so forgotten threads come back into view.

Quill's graph view linking six notes

Everything at ⌘K

Every note and command, a few letters away.

Quill command palette

Embed anything

Type / for images, video, audio, PDFs, YouTube, or another note.

The slash menu for inserting media

Nothing is ever lost

Quill saves as you type and keeps earlier versions, so you can step back in time.

● Now · 1,284 words
2:30 PM · 1,102 words
2:20 PM · 860 words
Yesterday · 412 words

Yours, in plain text

Markdown in, Markdown out. No lock-in.

# On Slowness
Attention is the only thing
we truly own. See [[Reading Notes]].
#essay #draft

Write and read side by side

Markdown on the left, a clean page on the right. Or switch to reading with ⌘ E.

Split view with editor and preview

A page worth reading

Hide everything and your notes read like a well-set book.

A note in Quill's clean reading view
Fast, measurably

Faster than you can blink.

A blink takes about 100 milliseconds. Quill is built in Rust on a single local database, so nothing you do waits on the internet.

0.02msto open a note
21msto search 10,000 notes
0.28msto save an edit
0accounts needed

Measured on an Apple M1 with 8 GB of RAM, release build, November 2026.

Private by design

Yours. Actually yours.

Lives on your Mac

Every note lives in one database on your own disk. It opens instantly and works on a plane.

Syncs without a cloud

Your Macs talk to each other directly over your home or office network. There's no server in between.

AI on your terms

Ask is off until you add your own key. Notes are sent only when you ask a question, and only the ones that answer it.

Be first in line.

Quill is coming to macOS 11 and later, on Apple silicon and Intel. Leave your email and we'll send one message when it's your turn.

No spam. Just one email when it's ready.