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A command
line for
your brain.
MindTab replaces your new-tab page with a single bar that finds anything you've saved, answers from your own notes, and captures what you're reading. Obsidian's depth, Linear's precision, one keyboard shortcut away.
mindtab
◐obsidian.md — Daily
●Linear — GOAL-142
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TUE 17 APR 2026 · W16
● 12d streak
09:41
Morning, Alex. 4 today. The ship deadline is 6 hours out.
⇥ switch mode ↵ send \ scope
Today· 4 GT
Ship MindTab identity doc
GOAL-142 · design system v2
Morning run — 8km easy
HBT-08 · marathon
Q3 review with Maya
GOAL-139 · bring habit data
Read: Gabriel — Worse is Better
READ-33 · essay
Recent · Vault· 248 totalGV
◆ ESSAY
Worse is Better
dreamsongs.com · 12 min
Gabriel's argument: simple systems that spread beat correct systems that don't.
[[design-philosophy]][[unix]]
◇ PODCAST
How to think about AI agents
Latent Space · 84 min
Swyx walks through the agentic stack. Where memory lives; why tools beat chains.
[[ai-agents]][[memory]]
◇ BOOK
The Timeless Way of Building
C. Alexander · Ch. 7
The quality without a name. Pattern language as architecture.
[[pattern-language]]
◆ NOTE
On restraint in product design
self · yesterday
Three variations is the refuge of the uncommitted. Pick one, commit.
[[design-philosophy]]
GraphGG
focused
ai-linked
connected
dormant
streak
12 d
▲ personal best
saved
248
+11 this week
goals live
8
2 overdue
asked
34
▲ 18%
focus today
2h 14m
◉ tracking
01 / PITCH
One bar. Three verbs.
Every action in MindTab starts with ⌘K and ends with one of three modes. That's the whole grammar. Switch between them with Tab. Nothing else to learn — and nothing else in the way.
01/find
Find what you saved.
Search your Vault — notes, articles, highlights, links — with full-text, tag, and backlink filters. Under 20ms on 10k items.
findthat essay about worse is better
02/ask
Ask your brain.
The assistant answers from your Vault, with sources. No web search. No hallucinated summaries. If it's not in your notes, it says so.
askwhat did I conclude about modular monoliths?
03/add
Capture in one keystroke.
Save the current tab, a highlight, a thought. Auto-tagged, auto-summarized, dropped into your graph. No modals. No folders.
addthis page to [[ai-agents]]
02 / SURFACES
Three surfaces. One keyboard.
The command bar branches into three destinations. Each one is the depth under a verb — and every one is reached with two keys.
Vault · G V
Your second brain,
with backlinks that mean something.
Every save lands in the Vault — articles, podcasts, books, your own notes — with AI-drafted summaries, auto-extracted tags, and a live backlink graph. It's Obsidian if Obsidian never made you choose a folder.
capturebrowser · mobile · email · share sheet
searchfull-text · tags · time · backlinks
formatmarkdown-native, portable
storageencrypted, exportable in one click
[[design-philosophy]]
essay · 8
book · 3
note · 5
◆ ESSAY
Worse is Better
dreamsongs.com · 12 min
Gabriel's argument: simple systems that spread beat correct systems that don't.
[[design-philosophy]][[unix]]
◆ NOTE
On restraint in product design
self · yesterday
Three variations is the refuge of the uncommitted.
[[design-philosophy]]
◇ BOOK
The Design of Everyday Things
Norman · Ch. 2
Affordances. Signifiers. The mapping between control and outcome.
[[design-philosophy]][[ux]]
◆ ESSAY
Taste for Makers
paulgraham.com · 18 min
Good design is redesign. Good design resembles nature. Good design is hard.
[[design-philosophy]]
Assistant · ⌘ /
An assistant that reads
only your notes.
Ask anything — the assistant answers from your Vault, grounded, with numbered citations. If the answer isn't in your saved knowledge, it says so. Never invents. Never browses. Never ships your notes to a foundation model.
modellocal · private · on-device when possible
groundingyour Vault only
citationsevery claim, every time
honestysays "I don't know" when it doesn't
ASK · grounded in your vault 248 items · 42 tags
What did I conclude about modular monoliths?
Across three saves in the last quarter, you landed on three tensions. First, that a modular monolith buys you team autonomy without distributed-systems tax, which you called "the only free lunch in architecture." Second, that module boundaries decay in direct proportion to deadline pressure — you cited the Datadog post twice. Third, you noted that the real test is the build graph, not the deploy graph.
1Modular Monoliths at Datadogdatadoghq.com · mar 12
2On boundaries that rotself note · feb 28
3The Majestic Monolithsignalvnoise.com · jan 4
Today · G T
The one list
you actually finish.
Goals, habits, and read-later collapse into one time-sorted list for today. Progress is implicit — no streaks to worry about, no badges to collect, just what's now and what's next.
sourcesgoals · habits · read · calendar
sorttime → priority → freshness
focusone task, highlighted
roll-overautomatic, with a nudge not a judgement
Tue 17 Apr
4 remaining · ship by 18:00
06:30
Morning run — 8km easy
HBT-08marathon · 52/84
now
Ship MindTab identity doc
GOAL-142design system v2
16:00
Q3 review with Maya
GOAL-139prep habit data
eve
Finish: Alexander — Timeless Way, Ch. 7
READ-4126 min left
22:00
Shutdown · journal entry
HBT-02evening · 134d
03 / KEYBOARD
Keyboard-first, mouse-optional.
The whole product is under ten shortcuts. Learn them in an hour, save them in a minute. If you know Linear or Vim, you already know most of this.
ANYWHERE
command bar
⌘+K
Opens the bar. Tab cycles modes. Esc closes.
ask assistant
⌘+/
Straight into ask mode. Same bar, same keyboard.
capture current tab
⌘+⇧+S
Save active page to Vault. AI summary + tags, in place.
new thought
⌘+N
Drop a note into the inbox. No template. Just write.
GO TO · PRESS G, THEN…
today
G→T
Jump to the one list that actually matters.
vault
G→V
All saves. Filter, search, graph view.
graph
G→G
Full-screen backlink graph. Drag, pin, orbit.
inbox
G→I
Everything unfiled. Triage with J/K/E/Shift-3.
IN ANY LIST
up / down
J·K
Vim-style. Select row. Enter opens peek.
complete
X
Toggle done on any item. No dialog.
tag
#
Opens tag picker. Type to filter.
priority
1·2·3
Set priority. Rose, amber, or none.
04 / GRAPH
Your mind, made visible.
Every save connects to every other save that touches the same ideas. After a month you'll see clusters you didn't plan. After a year, you'll see what you actually think about.
05 / POSITION
Not for everyone. Good.
We'd rather be the right answer for 50,000 people than a compromise for 5 million. Here's how to tell if that's you.
● MINDTAB IS FOR YOU IF
You live in your browser and your head is the bottleneck.
✓You read a lot. And lose most of it. You want a Vault that retrieves.
✓You think in links. Obsidian, Roam, Bear — you already know what backlinks are for.
✓You prefer the keyboard. ⌘K is home. The mouse is a last resort.
✓You want an AI that doesn't lie. Grounded in your notes, or it says "I don't know."
✓You've left 30 tabs open because the alternative is losing them.
○ IT'S NOT FOR YOU IF
You want gamified everything, floating quotes, and a widget gallery.
×You want streaks, confetti, and level-up animations.
×You want the AI to write for you. (It won't. It'll answer from what you wrote.)
×You want a weather widget, a motivational quote, a to-do list with checkboxes that jiggle.
×You want to organize with nested folders. We have tags and backlinks. Pick those.
×You want a team workspace. We are a single-player tool. On purpose.
06 / PLATFORMS
Everywhere you think.
Your Vault follows you — browser, desktop, pocket. Each surface does what it's best at. Capture on mobile, command on desktop, deep-read on web. Same data, end-to-end encrypted, synced in real time.
◆ EXTENSION v1.0 · out
TUE 17 APR · W16
09:41
ask what i saved about⌘K
Browser extension
Replaces your new-tab page. One-key capture, command bar everywhere.
Install for Chrome
◆ WEB APP v1.0 · out
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Full Vault in any browser. No install. Same keyboard, same graph, bookmarkable.
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◆ iOS v1.0 · out
TUE · 17 APR
09:41
◆ SAVED · 2m ago
Worse is Better
dreamsongs.com
iPhone + iPad
Share sheet capture. Read-later with highlights. Widgets for Today.
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◆ ANDROID beta · q2 '26
[[design-philosophy]]
Android
Share-to-save from anywhere. Chrome custom-tabs for instant capture.
Join Play beta
Install in 10 seconds.
Pick your surface. One account, one Vault, synced end-to-end encrypted. Uninstall any time — export as plain markdown in one click.
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