Features

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Markdown at its core, AI when you want it, yours always. Six deep features that earn their keep — and get out of your way.

Live transcription

Hit record and Palimp streams words to your cursor as you speak. Powered by OpenAI Whisper, so accents, jargon, and the occasional umm are handled gracefully.

Use it for meetings you can't type fast enough through, voice memos on a walk, or interviews where you need both hands free. Pause and resume without losing context.

The audio stays ephemeral — only the transcript is saved, and only in your note.

⌘ ⇧ R to start recording

AI Transform

Select any text and call AI Transform. Polish grammar, rephrase friendly or formal, rewrite as bullet points, extract action items, or compress a wall of text into a clean summary.

Every change arrives as an inline diff — accept or reject word by word. Your prose, your voice, just tidier.

Transforms run against your selection only, so you stay in control of what leaves your note.

⌘ J on any selection

Recipes

Recipes take sparse bullets plus a raw transcript and hand back structured markdown: meeting notes, interview write-ups, brain-dumps, or lecture summaries.

You bring the loose scaffolding — headings, topics, decisions to capture. The Recipe fills in the prose with what was actually said.

Built-in recipes cover the common cases; you can fork and edit any of them to match how your team writes.

# Recipe: Weekly 1:1

Wiki-links & backlinks

Type [[Title]] anywhere and you've got a link — autocomplete suggests existing notes, or creates a stub if the target doesn't exist yet.

The right-hand panel shows every note that links back, plus unlinked mentions, plus notes that share your tags. A second brain that assembles itself as you write.

Rename a note and every backlink updates in place. No dangling references, no dead links.

[[Weekly 1:1]]

Smart dates & tags

Type @23/04/2026 and it becomes a clickable date pill. Use #nested/tags to organize projects, people, and ideas without the pain of folder trees.

Dates roll up into the Upcoming view. Tags cluster notes automatically — click any tag to see everything in that bucket, plus the related tags people who read this one care about.

Because everything is just text, the same tags and dates work in exports, diffs, and search.

@23/04/2026

Keyboard-first

⌘K opens the command palette. ⌘N starts a new note. ⌘, drops you into settings. ⌘⇧F searches everywhere. Arrow keys navigate results, enter opens.

Fuzzy search finds what you meant, not just what you typed — "bnana brd" still finds the banana bread recipe.

The mouse works fine, but you won't need it. Every action in Palimp has a shortcut, and every shortcut is remappable.

⌘ K

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