Rhizolog is out in public beta

Rhizolog is now available in public beta at rhizolog.com. It’s a single-user note-taking and time-tracking app that runs standalone on the web and desktop. No account, no server, all your data stays with you.

It was created to map ideas as its creator sees them: branches that further branch and loop back in on themselves. Or in other words, ideas can turn into spaghetti and that’s entirely expected.

Check out the source and report any bugs on GitHub.

Data lives in git

The thing that makes Rhizolog different: everything you write is stored as plain git repositories. Notes and time entries live in hand-editable, version-controlled files inside a workspace folder — native git on desktop, isomorphic-git in the browser. No database, no opaque blobs. Open the folder, read the Markdown, run git log.

What’s in the box

• Notes as a graph. Every note is an independent Markdown file. Connect them with directed “extends” links, fork them, and grow a web of thought where ideas branch like roots. There’s a proper CodeMirror editor with inline live preview, [[wiki-links]], and backlinks.
• Time tracking that respects reality. Title plus tags, any number of concurrent timers, and day/week/month dashboards. Running timers are never committed, only completed entries are.
• Extensible, safely. Opt-in hooks let you run your own JavaScript on app events inside a sandbox with no ambient filesystem or network access. Off by default.