Notes with structure

Give the things you keep — books, people, projects, tasks — the details that make them useful, without turning notes into forms.

  • Every note has a type, so a book looks like a book and a task like a task (Objects and Types)
  • Share fields between related types instead of repeating them (Mixins)
  • Link notes by typing [[Title]]; links can also be typed relations, like an author or a project
  • Add fields that calculate their own values (property formulas)
  • Rename fields or change a type safely; existing notes keep working
  • Built-in types for tasks, events, and images, files, PDFs, audio and web links

How Objects and Types work

The Lar app showing a Book note titled Dune with tags and typed properties.

A calm editor

Write freely in blocks, and let everything you write connect to the rest of your workspace.

  • Headings, lists, to-dos, toggles, and code blocks with syntax highlighting for 150+ languages
  • Images and files stay attached to the note and sync with it
  • Tables, link previews, math (KaTeX), and a free-form canvas; switch a note between page and canvas with Ctrl+Shift+E
  • Type [[Title]] to link a note and #tag to tag it; Lar creates a missing tag for you
  • Embed a whole note, a section, or a few blocks inside another note (transclusion)
  • Find and replace with Ctrl+F, comment threads with a workspace-wide Discussions page, and version history you can restore from

Tour the editor

Views for how you think

Look at the same notes as a list, a board, a calendar, or a graph, and switch without losing your place.

  • List, Table, Board (Kanban), Calendar, Gallery, and an interactive Graph of connections
  • Today gathers your daily note and everything dated today; open it with Ctrl+Shift+D
  • Upcoming groups reminders as overdue, today, this week, and later
  • Tasks grouped by due date, with quick add, one-click complete, and recurring tasks that roll forward
  • Browser-style tabs for several notes at once, including pinned tabs
  • A Trash where deleted notes can be restored

Explore layouts and Saved Views

The Lar Calendar in day view with a month picker and a daily note.

Capture fast, find anything

Get a thought in before you lose it, and get back to it when it matters.

  • Search across your notes and the connections between them with Ctrl+K
  • Open the command palette with Ctrl+P, create a note with Ctrl+N, or capture one with Ctrl+Shift+N
  • Write precise queries and keep them as Saved Views (TQL query language)
  • Backlinks show what points at a note; unlinked mentions can be turned into links in one click
  • Hover a reference to preview the note behind it

Search and the command palette

Lar's search and command palette listing recent notes and actions.

Sync, sharing & privacy

Your notes live on your device first. Sync and sharing are optional, and end-to-end encrypted.

  • Desktop encrypts your workspace on disk, using keys kept in your operating system
  • Sync your workspace across your own devices
  • Share a single note with someone, view-only or editable, without exposing the rest
  • Edit together with live cursors, encrypted between participants
  • Publish a read-only web page of a note; only people with the full link can read it

Local-first and encryption Sync Sharing

AI, on your terms

AI is optional, and Lar asks before anything is sent to a cloud provider.

  • Use a cloud provider or a local model with Ollama; on desktop you bring your own key
  • Ask the assistant about your notes and get answers with citations; open it with Ctrl+Shift+A
  • Save a conversation as a note when it is worth keeping
  • Turn on local semantic search on desktop to find notes by meaning
  • Mark any note "Exclude from AI" to keep it out of every AI feature

How the AI assistant works

Import & export

Bring your notes in from other tools, and take them out any time in standard formats.

  • Import from Notion (a Markdown & CSV export zip), an Obsidian vault folder, Roam JSON, Evernote (.enex), or OPML
  • Import calendar files (.ics) as events; re-importing does not create duplicates
  • Pull in your Readwise highlights with your own token
  • Export your whole workspace as JSON, or notes as Markdown, HTML, and print-ready PDF

Import and export guide