Context capture
Reads the active window and workspace at the moment you take a note — Hyprland-native to start — and attaches it as structured metadata, not a guess.
// building in public
Notes, with context.
ndpth is a context-aware notebook for your desktop. It watches the window and workspace you're in, then binds every note to that context automatically — so nothing you write ends up floating, unlabeled, disconnected from why you wrote it.
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rez env for houdini20.5 — bump the redshift package before the farm picks it up
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cache path was wrong on the farm — fixed in the submit script
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// the idea
Most notes forget their context.
You jot something down while deep in a terminal, a codebase, a design file — and the moment you close that window, the note loses the thread that made it useful. Was this about the API refactor, or the other one? Which project? Which day?
ndpth writes the context down for you.
Every entry is stamped with the active window and workspace the instant you capture it. Your notes end up organized by the work they came from — automatically, without a folder structure to maintain.
// features
How it holds together
Block-based notes
Entries are built from blocks instead of one long text field — text today, with more content types arriving as the format grows.
Freeform tags
Layer your own tags on top of automatic context, so notes stay findable by however you happen to be thinking about them later.
Local-first storage
Notes live in a plain JSON store on your own machine. No account, no sync service, no cloud dependency to trust.
// status
Built in the open, one commit at a time
- [x] Window + workspace capture via Hyprland
- [x] Local note store (JSON)
- [~] Native desktop UI
- [ ] Block editor — text, links, snippets
- [ ] Tag search & filtering
- [ ] Context graph — see how notes link back to the windows that made them
// stay in the loop
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