Markdown by default, encrypted before it leaves your laptop, and finally — no AI button you didn't ask for. Margin is a notes app for people who already know how they want to write.
Three things to surface for Friday: migration milestones, hiring lag, one open question.
Light bag only. No checked luggage. 2 t-shirts, 1 long sleeve, charger, plug adapter.
Single-file Rust binary. Append-only TSV log. No daemon, no UI.
Pinker, Calvino, Le Guin reread. Stop buying until this list is half-cleared.
Three things to surface for Friday:
1. Migration milestones — keep it short, link the dashboard.
2. The hiring lag and what we did about it.
3. One unresolved question to put to the room.
Don't over-deck this. The room reads slides faster than I can present them.
Six things Margin does well. Most of the others, we don't do at all — on purpose.
Notes live as plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. Sync if you want; don't if you don't.
If you turn on sync, everything is encrypted with your passphrase. We can't read your notes. Neither can the cloud.
CommonMark plus footnotes, tables, callouts, and math. Renders in any other editor without surprise.
Full-text, fuzzy, instant. Across folders, tags, and bodies. No indexing screen on launch.
No sidebar suggestions. No autocomplete that finishes your thought wrong. The app shuts up and lets you write.
Native macOS, native Linux, web app for Windows. Same files, no migration step.
Free does what 90% of people need. Pay only if you want the cloud sync.
We send one email when v1.0 lands. Nothing else, ever.