EtherPK

Personal knowledge, kept properly

Your notes. Your files. Encrypted everywhere.

A daily journal and a growing web of linked pages, stored as plain markdown you'll still be able to read in twenty years. Free on your own machine. Sync+ carries it, end-to-end encrypted, to every device you own.

No account needed to start with a folder on your computer, and none for the demo, which runs in your browser on any device. Want to see how it works first? Read the docs.

Plain markdown, always

Every journal entry and page is a .md file. Structure comes from headings and indentation, not from a database, so your notes open in any editor and outlive any app, including this one.

A journal that becomes knowledge

Write the day into today's entry. Wrap an idea in [[double brackets]] and it's a concept with a page and backlinks, whether or not you've written that page yet. Tasks live inline and roll up into one view.

Encrypted before it leaves your device

With Sync+ your graph is encrypted on your machine and only ever decrypted on your devices. The server relays and stores ciphertext. It can't read your notes, your titles or even your graph's name, and neither can we.

Two ways to run it

Same editor, same files. The difference is where the graph lives and who keeps it in sync.

Free

Your machine, or your server

Point EtherPK at a folder and your graph is a directory of markdown files and images. Back it up, put it in git, open it elsewhere. Or self-host the open-source Sync Server and Client and run the whole thing on infrastructure you control.

  • The whole editor, no limits on what you write
  • Folder graphs in a Chromium desktop browser
  • Open-source Sync Server and Client to self-host

Sync+

Every device, end-to-end encrypted

We run the sync service so you don't have to. Your graph is encrypted on your device with keys only you hold, then synced to your phone, tablet and laptop, and to the people you choose to share it with. A live markdown mirror on your disk keeps the files yours.

  • Works on phones, Safari and Firefox too
  • Share a graph and edit it together, live
  • One flat monthly price, with a free trial
See Sync+ pricing

Things worth knowing before you start

  • Folder graphs need the File System Access API, which today means a Chromium desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave). Phones, Safari and Firefox work with Sync+.
  • End-to-end encryption cuts both ways. Lose every signed-in device and your Recovery Code and nobody can decrypt your synced notes, us included. Keep the code, and keep a local mirror if you like belt and braces.
  • The editor is one text surface. No separate reading mode, no blocks as UI widgets, no rich-text layer hiding the markdown. Some people love that; some don't.

The docs at docs.etherpk.com cover self-hosting, import from Logseq and Obsidian, and how the encryption works.