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Getting started

Smritsavant is a notepad built around a spatial canvas instead of folders. Every note you write is embedded — turned into a semantic vector — on your own machine, then auto-linked to related notes. You can see your notes as a canvas, a firing Cortex, or a timeline, and ask them questions in chat. The AI doing all of this runs on your device by default — and if you ever want a bigger model, you choose the engine, never us.

On Windows and Linux, read ⌘ as Ctrl.

First launch

  1. Download and install Smritsavant for your platform.
  2. On first launch, enter your email and start the free 14-day trial. This is a one-time online activation — after it, the app works fully offline (with a 30-day grace period between occasional license checks).
  3. The app downloads its embedding model in the background (~470 MB, one time). Semantic linking and search switch on when it finishes; plain writing works immediately.

Chat, voice transcription, and image captioning use larger optional models (roughly 1–5 GB each) that download only when you enable those features. On mobile, model downloads are Wi-Fi-only by default — see Mobile.

There is no account beyond your email, and your notes are never part of it. The trial is full-featured; when it ends, the app becomes read-only and your data stays exportable forever — see Licensing & devices.

Your first notes

  • Double-click anywhere on the empty canvas to create a note there.
  • Press ⌘⇧N from anywhere for quick capture — first line becomes the title.
  • Double-click a note to focus it: edit the title and body, set its memory type, add tags.
  • Press ⌘⇧E in focus mode to expand into the full editor with tabs, outline, and backlinks.

Write a handful of notes on one topic and watch edges appear between the related ones — that’s the semantic memory at work. Nothing left your machine to make it happen.

Where to go next

Next →Canvas & memory chunks