Mind Archive

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Notes on building Mind Archive: what it does, how it is put together, and the decisions behind it. Every technical claim here points at something you can read in the decision log.

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  1. privacy

    What "local-first" actually means

    Plenty of products say "your data stays private". Here is what that phrase is worth only when you can check it — and how to check ours in about five minutes.

  2. product

    Introducing Mind Archive

    Your AI conversations are some of the most useful writing you have done. They are also locked inside products you do not control. Mind Archive gets them back.

  3. engineering

    How Mind Archive is built

    React, FastAPI, SQLite and a folder of Markdown. A short tour of the architecture, and the two constraints that decided most of it.

  4. engineering, process

    Decisions worth stealing

    Mind Archive keeps a written record of every architectural decision and why it was made. Four of them are useful well beyond this project.