reflect ai

Overview
Reflect is an open-source note-taking app designed to help people capture ideas, organize knowledge, and connect their thinking over time. It uses daily notes, backlinks, and a visual graph of connected notes to make information easier to find and understand. Unlike many cloud-only note apps, Reflect keeps notes as local Markdown files in a folder you choose, with optional syncing through iCloud Drive or Git. Its optional AI assistant can answer questions from your notes, summarize meetings, improve writing, and transcribe voice notes.

Key Features

• Daily notes and backlinks: Start with today’s note and connect related ideas through backlinks, creating a searchable network of your thinking.
• Local Markdown files: Store notes in a folder of your choice, with privacy controls that exclude private notes from AI access.
• Fast capture: Save web clips, screenshots, links, and audio memos; a Chrome extension is available on Mac.
• Optional AI assistant: Ask questions across your notes, summarize text, extract meeting takeaways and action items, improve writing, save custom prompts, and transcribe voice notes.

Use Cases

• Professionals can keep meeting notes, action items, research, and project ideas connected in one personal knowledge base.
• Writers and researchers can organize reading notes, web clips, and ideas through linked notes and instant search.
• Privacy-focused users can maintain a local-first Markdown note system while optionally adding AI through their own provider.a