Features · v0.6.0
Everything you capture lives together — notes, people, tasks, bookmarks and AI all connected.
The Dashboard surfaces what matters — a live Knowledge Health score, 14-day activity chart, AI Digest on demand, and a Focus Next card pointing to your highest-priority open task.
Knowledge Health score with streak, tagging rate, and connection count
AI Digest on demand — recap notes, tasks, and bookmarks any time of day
Focus Next — your highest-priority open task surfaced automatically
Fully responsive — works on phone, iPad, and desktop
Notion organises notes in blocks and pages — but there's no graph and no connections between them. Obsidian has wikilinks but lives on your local machine; your team, tasks and bookmarks are elsewhere. Dotstell gives you the best of both: rich text editing, cloud sync, and a wikilink system that ties every note to the full context of your professional life.
[[Wikilinks]] between notes
Type [[ anywhere — a live search dropdown appears, select, done.
Backlinks panel on every note
See every note that references yours, in one glance.
Graph auto-builds as you write
No manual arrangement. Links you create in text appear in the graph instantly.
Linked to people, tasks & bookmarks
One click connects a note to the person it involves or the task it spawned.
Pocket and Raindrop are great bookmark managers — but your saved links live in isolation. In Dotstell every bookmark is a first-class knowledge node. Save a paper, link it to the decision note it influenced, connect it to the person who shared it. Your reading history becomes part of your graph, not a graveyard of forgotten tabs.
Auto-fetch on save
Title, description and favicon are captured the moment you paste a URL.
Collections & smart filtering
Organise into named collections. Filter by tag, domain or date.
Link to notes, people & tasks
Found an article for a project? Link it. Someone shared a resource? Attach it to them.
Appears in the knowledge graph
Bookmarks show up as nodes alongside your notes and people.
Unlike tools that bolt on a generic chatbot, Dotstell's AI runs across your entire knowledge graph — notes, people, tasks and bookmarks.
Every day Dotstell generates a concise recap of everything on your plate — recent notes, due tasks, idle knowledge, and what to focus on next. Stay aligned without spending 20 minutes reviewing apps.
🖥️ Running Ollama locally?
Use the Dotstell Local AI Agent — a zero-dependency proxy between dotstell.app and your local Ollama instance. No install, no config.
npx @dotstell/agentDashboard
No digging. No app-switching. Knowledge Health score, capture streak, Focus Next task, and AI Digest on demand — all in one home screen the moment you arrive.
Overdue tasks surface the moment you open the app — with the task name, priority and a one-click path to resolve. No daily review ritual required.
A live score, 14-day activity chart, and capture streak show whether your knowledge base is growing or stalling — before you even open a note.
Recent notes, open tasks and new bookmarks in a single view. Stop deciding which app to open first — Dotstell tells you where to start.
Connect any AI provider and Dotstell generates a recap of your notes, open tasks, and bookmarks on demand. Choose Today or This Week — no need to wait until morning.
The problem it solves
Every meeting leaves a trail — a note, a saved link, a task, a person to follow up with. In the usual setup these end up in four different apps with no memory of how they connect.
The usual way
4 apps · no connections · context lost in days
With Dotstell
📑 Notes
Discussed the Q3 roadmap with ⬡ Rayan. Saved ⬡ Q3 roadmap doc for reference. Follow-up: ⬡ Review dependencies before Thursday.
Connected to
One note · everything linked · context lasts forever
How it works
STEP 01
Write a note, save a bookmark, log a person, add a task. One place, no friction, no app-switching — every piece of knowledge lands in Dotstell the moment it happens.
STEP 02
Type [[ in any note to link it to another. Connect notes to people, tasks and bookmarks. The knowledge graph builds itself as you write — no manual arrangement needed.
STEP 03
Your connected graph becomes a knowledge base you can question. Ask anything — the AI searches your own notes, decisions and relationships and answers from your actual context, not the internet.
If you capture information and struggle to connect it — Dotstell is for you.
Track 1-on-1s, decisions, team context and follow-ups. Never walk into a meeting unprepared again.
Connect customer conversations to product decisions. See the thread between a user complaint and a shipped feature.
Link technical decisions to the discussions that created them. Build a second brain for your codebase.
Connect ideas across papers, sources and people. Build knowledge that compounds over time.
Native desktop app
Powered by Tauri — not Electron. The installer is ~10 MB, launches instantly, and uses your OS's own webview.
Windows
Windows 10 / 11
Requires Windows 10 or later · ~10 MB
macOS
macOS 11+
Requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later · ~10 MB
Linux
Ubuntu / Debian / AppImage
Ubuntu 22.04+ or any modern distro · ~10 MB
Windows may show a SmartScreen warning on first run — click More info → Run anyway. macOS users: right-click the .dmg and choose Open on first launch. Linux AppImage: run chmod +x *.AppImage before launching. These prompts will go away once the app is code-signed.
What's new
Open source
Dotstell is fully open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host it on your own server. Inspect every line of code. Contribute to make it better. Your data never belongs to us.
Your data, your server
Self-host on any server. Full control, zero vendor lock-in.
AGPL-3.0 licensed
Free to use, fork and modify. Built for the community.
Built in public
Every commit, every decision made openly on GitHub.
Community driven
Features shaped by real users, not investor roadmaps.
The ecosystem
Dotstell is the first app in a long-term open source ecosystem. Every future product shares the same knowledge graph underneath.
How we compare
Other tools do one thing well. Dotstell connects everything.
| Feature | Notion | Obsidian | Logseq | Roam | Raindrop | Dotstell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in AI (chat, writing, digest, semantic search, graph intel, summarise, person intel) | plugin | |||||
| Local AI / Ollama native supportzero-setup proxy, runs via npx — no config needed | plugin | |||||
| Cross-type connectionsnotes ↔ people ↔ bookmarks ↔ tasks in one graph | ||||||
| People & relationships | ||||||
| Open source (AGPL-3.0) | ||||||
| Wikilinks between notes | limited | |||||
| Automatic backlinks | ||||||
| Visual knowledge graph | ||||||
| Smart bookmarks | ||||||
| Tasks linked to notes | limited | plugin | limited | |||
| Self-hostable (server) | limited | |||||
| Free tier | limited | limited |