Stop carrying it in your head.
Write it down once. Forget it on purpose. It comes back to you, right when it matters.
Less an assistant. More a digital you — one that never forgets, so you can be present instead of on guard.
Who this is for
A type of person, not a technical requirement.
- You have a lot of stuff to keep straight.
- You want a connected system.
- You love automating things.
- You hate subscriptions, and lock-in.
- You care about privacy.
- You want or already have a homelab.
How it works
Less screen time, more headspace.
Input
Notes, photos, voice memos, voice assistant — captured the moment they happen, from whatever app is already open.
Workspace
One shared space where your notes, files, and tools live side by side, synced to everywhere you work.
Automation
Rules that watch the workspace and act on it — filing, tagging, reminding — so nothing needs revisiting by hand.
What gets easier
Concretely, immediately.
Capture ideas effortlessly, so you can live in the moment.
The right note finds you, unasked, when it matters.
Know what you are doing is the right thing to do.
Breakdown tasks in the background, and see the next real step surfaced.
Notes, photos, files — filed the moment they land.
Build systems that work for you.
How we do it
Not new software. The good stuff that exists, wired together once.
The software exists
Notes, photos, money, files — already solved by great open source tools.
Solve it once
Connections, processes, backups, automations — forgotten once set up.
Nothing leaves the house
Your files, your GPU. No subscriptions, no cloud required.
Take ownership of your digital life
One evening, mostly spent waiting on Docker.
git clone https://github.com/jtmckay/existential.git
cd existential
./existential.sh # say yes to Core, or pick your own
docker compose up -d
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