4 projects
Ledger keeps your accounts in a human-readable text file with a fast UI on top for entry and charts. Imports from CSV, exports to anything. No bank logins, no data broker, no subscription.
Runs Whisper locally and drops a clean, speaker-labeled transcript into a plain markdown file. No cloud, no upload, it works on a plane and it works when the meeting was about something you would rather not hand to a third party. I built it after reading one too many transcription-tool privacy policies that quietly reserved the right to train on my audio. Speaker diarization without the cloud was the fun part: a small local embedding model gives rough labels that are good enough to skim a meeting you missed. It still trips on heavy crosstalk and long recordings take a while, but it has become the thing I reach for every week.
Hit a global shortcut, type what you are doing, done. Stores to a local SQLite db and exports CSV. No accounts, no cloud, no nagging. The whole UI is one text field.
Tide keeps everything in a local SQLite file and syncs peer to peer over a tiny last-writer-wins CRDT, so there is no server in the middle and no account to make. Your notes never leave devices you own, which is the entire point. I started it because every notes app I tried eventually wanted my email, then a subscription, then my data. The sync was the hard part: I spent two weeks getting conflict resolution to feel boring and predictable instead of clever. Setting up a second device is still clunky and search is naive, but for daily capture it has quietly replaced everything else I used. Encrypted sync and a proper mobile build are next.