A quiet place to think out loud.

Why Palimp exists

Most note apps ask you to pick a side: either a clever tool with a plugin marketplace that eats your weekends, or a beautiful editor that can't help you when you have forty minutes of meeting audio and a head full of half-sentences. Palimp is the quiet middle: plain markdown, wiki-links, dates and tags that just work — plus live transcription and AI Transform in the same window, for the moments you actually need them. Built so that writing a note at 9:04am and finding it in six months both feel effortless.

Who it's for

People who keep a second brain and people who wish they did. Researchers, product leads, writers, founders, students, and anyone who leaves meetings with a pocketful of half-formed ideas and wants them to survive until Monday. Palimp rewards a keyboard habit but doesn't demand one, and it treats your data like yours — markdown files on your device, with optional sync when you want it.

Prior art

Palimp stands on the shoulders of apps that got one thing beautifully right. We borrow, we remix, and we credit:

• Obsidian

  For the markdown-first, local-first philosophy and the graph that forms when notes link to each other.

• Granola

  For showing what a meeting note can be when transcription and AI are invited to help — not take over.

• Reflect

  For the calm typography and the insistence that software can feel like writing, not like filling out a form.

• Mem

  For the idea that tags, dates, and search beat folder trees every time — if the search is good enough.