tangent

https://github.com/GyratingSeaCow/tangent - Go here for docker install instruc.


A notes app for the people, forever, for free on your own hardware synced up!

Tangent is a self-hosted voice brain-dump app. You hit record, dump whatever's in your head, and a Dockerized home server running Whisper on your own GPU transcribes it automatically. Your audio, transcripts, and notes never leave hardware you own — no cloud, no third party, no subscription.

Features:
Three capture modes — Brain Dump (verbatim voice memo), Meeting (speaker-aware transcript + meeting notes), Text Note (typed, no audio).

Notebooks — a genuine ink surface: handwriting with pen styles, lasso selection, undo/redo, typed blocks and embedded recording cards on one scrolling page, and PDF export.

Handwriting search — search all your notebooks in a flash

Ask My Notes — questions grounded in your recordings, summaries, notebooks, and to-dos, with actionable items produced from 2 second voice note