tangent

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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

Features

Note Taking
Voice Transcription
Multi-device sync
Linux/Android/Windows
pen input
import/export pdfs
MCP Server
Docker
To-do's
Notebooks
Natural language search
Tailscale

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License

Affero GNU Public License

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Operating Systems

Android, Linux, Windows

Intended Audience

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User Interface

Android

Registered

2026-10-04

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