A new kind of thinking tool

Your mind,
illuminated.

A beautiful, AI-native workspace for writing, thinking, and connecting ideas. Obsidian's depth. The design it deserved. Intelligence built in.

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Notes apps gave you power at the cost of beauty. Lumenote believes you shouldn't have to choose. A workspace that feels as good as it thinks — where AI surfaces connections you'd miss, and every surface is crafted to keep you in flow.

Built on three beliefs
01

UI is thinking

The interface isn't decoration — it's cognition. Every pixel serves clarity. Beautiful defaults. No configuration rabbit holes. You open it and think.

02

AI that listens

Not a chatbot bolted on. Intelligence woven into the fabric — surfacing related ideas, suggesting structure, connecting dots across your entire graph. Ambient, not intrusive.

03

Your data. Period.

Local-first. Markdown files. No lock-in. Your thinking belongs to you. We earn your trust by never needing to ask for it.

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On thinking clearly
The quality of your output is a direct function of the quality of your
thinking. Not your tools. Not your process. Your thinking.
Most note-taking tools optimize for capture. They assume the hard part
is getting information in. But capture is trivial. The hard part is what
happens after — connecting, synthesizing, seeing patterns.
A tool that surfaces connections you missed is fundamentally different
from one that waits for you to ask...
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