Traces

Local-first knowledge workspace. 3D graph, notes, and AI. On your machine.

View on GitHub Clone and run

01Plain markdownNotes remain readable files in a vault you choose.

02Visible connectionsWiki-links become a graph you can explore from every angle.

03Bring your own AIUse local models, a provider key, or a supported CLI.

Traces. Local vault

GRAPHForce · Bloom

NOTESAuto-save

Architecture.md

Index.md

# Architecture

Notes live as markdown in a local vault.

Link them with [[wiki-links]].

The graph draws every connection.

[[TracesAI]] can read and write

those files locally. Or sign in

with Codex, Grok, or Claude.

Saved to disk. No cloud vault.

42 words · 1 minCodeMirror 6

GRAPH

Wiki-links in 3D

Galaxy, Terrain, Cluster, and Particle views of your notes. Starfield, bloom, collapse, or fullscreen. Built with React Three Fiber.

EDITOR

Markdown that stays files

CodeMirror 6 with [[wiki-links]], preview, and auto-save. Notes are markdown in a local vault, not a proprietary database.

TRACESAI

Chat that can edit the vault

Sign in with Codex, Grok CLI, or Claude. Or use Ollama, or API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI. The mic starts a voice session with OpenAI or Grok. If a CLI is missing or logged out, chat stops. The assistant can read and write notes.

LOCAL-FIRST

Four panels, your disk

Files, Graph, Notes, Chat. Collapse and resize them. Electron desktop app. No App Store build, no hosted SaaS.

Clone it. Run it.

Working prototype. Electron, Next.js 15, React Three Fiber. MIT license. You need Node 22, pnpm 10, and optionally Ollama for local models.

git clone https://github.com/Sdefendre/traces-app.git
cd traces-app
pnpm install
pnpm dev