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Egghead launches note-taking app combining plain text files with AI to retrieve forgotten notes
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Egghead is a new note-taking app that stores notes as plain text Markdown or Org Mode files and uses large language models to read and engage with your notes rather than relying solely on search.
For engineers who maintain large knowledge bases, Egghead's plain text approach means notes remain accessible without proprietary software, while the AI layer attempts to solve the fundamental retrieval problem that plagues tools like Obsidian and Notion. The core limitation of existing note apps is that search only works if you remember what you wrote, Egghead uses LLMs to engage with notes as a participant rather than just indexing them.
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Egghead stores notes as plain text files in Markdown or Org Mode with Wikilinks, avoiding proprietary formats that reduce long-term retrievability.
The app uses large language models to read notes and produce reasonable language about them on demand, addressing the structural limitation that traditional systems can only return what you explicitly put in.
The founding essay positions Egghead as a note-taking app first, with AI capabilities as a consequence rather than the defining identity.
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