Every note app I've used solves the wrong problem.
When did you last find a note because you remembered what you called it? Looking at the blinking cursor in front of a search bar, certain the thing exists somewhere, unable to remember what you saved it as. Pata hai wahin kahin hai, bas naam yaad nahi.
They're built for storage.
Write it down, tag it, file it.
The system assumes you'll remember the tags later.
You'll have to do the heavy lifting to connect the notes and manage it yourself.
Neither of the two most popular tools holds up once a knowledge base gets real size.
Notion is a database wearing a notes app's clothes. Great for a wiki or a task tracker. But not as to make connection and cross-reference information.
Obsidian does help cross reference but it's built for notes only, and information gets lost as the vault scales.
The graph view turns into a hairball, and search only works if you remember the exact phrase you typed six months ago.
But your knowledge doesn't live only in notes. It's spread across systems and different artifacts: a screenshot on your SSD, a thread on socials, a paper you highlighted somewhere. How much of what you actually needed last month was sitting in a note app at all?
Recall isn't the thing to optimize for.
Your mind is built for recognition, not recall.
You know a note the second you see it again.
You rarely know what to type to go find it.
Right now, that's on you.
That's a design problem dressed up as a discipline problem, and it gets worse as the vault grows, not better.
mysmriti is my attempt at a knowledge base that doesn't just store what you wrote but actually understand how it connects.
It isn't just another system with a different skin.
It's built on the idea that your knowledge isn't a static inventory to store.
mysmriti works more like a sutradhar, the thread-holder from classical Indian theatre who orchestrates a play from behind the scenes. It's a living fabric that keeps getting rewoven.
Threading binds it into shared context, so you don't have to.
The metaphor is a loom, it doesn't store thread, it holds it in tension so a pattern can emerge on its own.
While you write, it surfaces a connection you hadn't thought to look for yet, whatever kind of artifact it happens to live in.
None of that exists yet. Closest is mymind but thats not open source.
mysmriti is local-first and open source by design.
Private, secure, and free to use. Your data stays with you, where it belongs.
Phase one, core architecture, is what's actually being built right now.
Your second brain shouldn't need you to remember where you put anything.