Your second brain, at a blinking caret.
Steno is one capture bar and zero systems. Write down what you just thought; Steno keeps the rest — date, links, and the way back.
Inbox — today
3 notes- 08:41the pitch deck should read like a garden, not a pipeline
- 13:02Seeing Like a State ch. 2 — legibility explains dashboards
- 17:26ask Mia about the Iceland trip before August
Why people switch
- Opens anywhere
- One keystroke over any window. The note you save was never interrupted by saving it.
- No folders, ever
- Files by context — the project you were in, the person you named, the book you quoted.
- Links, by suggestion
- Steno proposes connections between notes that quote or contradict each other. You approve; nothing moves silently.
- Recall in your words
- “That book about dashboards lying” is a valid query. You get the note, and the two that orbit it.
- Yours on a plane
- The archive lives on your machine. Sync is encrypted, optional, and never required to remember.
“Every other app made me maintain a system. Steno just kept what I said.” Jonas Petersen · researcher