Welcome

Everpaper is a private memory of your workdays and meetings, on your Mac. Start a workday journal and it keeps a searchable history of what you worked on. Record a meeting and it keeps the audio, a transcript and a summary. Later, ask it what you need and it answers with the source.

Everything you capture is stored and processed on this Mac by default. Nothing goes to a cloud service unless you connect one and separately allow it.

Everpaper is in private beta. Getting started explains how to join and install it.

Finding your way#

The sidebar has six places:

• Today: your day so far, the journal control, your next meeting and Today's focus.
• Meetings: record and review conversations.
• Timeline: your finished days, one per page.
• Library: every meeting recording and imported audio file.
• Memory (also called Second Brain): ask questions across everything, and see what Everpaper has learned about your work.
• Settings.

Everpaper treats your history as a book. That's where the small second names under three of these places come from (The Days, The Archive, Second Brain), and why the Index files the beliefs Memory has formed under Commonplace Book.

Press ⌘K for the Index to jump to any day, meeting, setting or command. On Timeline, the arrow keys turn between days. The red ribbon at the top right of every other page, or ⌘T, brings you back to Today. From any app, ⌥Space opens the Concordance, a quick find-and-ask panel.

What's inside#

Today and Timeline#

Press Start workday journal on Today when you begin work. Nothing is captured until you do. While it runs, Everpaper keeps a private history in the mode you chose (Screen history, Detailed screen history or Activity only). Press Stop & Review and it writes up your day. Finished days live in Timeline, one per page: turn with the arrow keys, use Ask the book (⌘F) to search across every day, or Ask this day… on one page. On Today, Ask your memory… asks across everything, and ⇧⌘A takes you there from any page.

Read more about the Day Journal →

Meetings#

Meetings records and transcribes your conversations on this Mac, with live captions and speaker labels. Start with Record on the Meetings page, Record now on Today, ⇧⌘M from any app, the menu-bar icon, or ⌘K → Begin meeting. If you allow calendar access, Everpaper can remind you before meetings (by default, those with a video-call link), or start recording automatically. With AI set up, each finished meeting gets an automatic Summary. Meetings are saved to your Library with a title you can rename.

Read more about Meetings →

Memory (Second Brain)#

Memory learns from what you capture. Ask questions across your days, meetings and files; see what it has learned about You; turn Insights into a draft email or follow-up event; explore Connections between people, projects and ideas; and Export everything as an Obsidian vault or a graph.

Read more about Memory →

Also in this beta#

• Private AI on your Mac: Everpaper Native on macOS 27 (Gemma 4 E4B with 16 GB of memory or more), or a managed local model on earlier macOS. See AI on your Mac.
• The Concordance: press ⌥Space in any app to find or ask about a day, a meeting or a file.
• Clicks, selections, and typed text (Computer History): beta, off until you turn it on. See Privacy.

Privacy#

Everpaper is on-device by default:

• Capture, transcription, and storage stay local. Meetings are transcribed on your Mac, and your journal database never leaves it.
• No AI traffic without a provider you choose. If you don't set one up, nothing is sent to any AI service. Recording, transcription, search and your journal still work; written summaries and answers wait until you set one up.
• Local AI keeps everything on your Mac. Setup can prepare a private model for you: Everpaper Native on macOS 27, or a managed oMLX model on earlier macOS. It can also use an LM Studio or Ollama you already run. Your text is processed locally, with no calls off the Mac.
• Cloud is opt-in. Nothing goes to a cloud AI until you connect one and turn on Allow cloud AI to analyze your journal (Settings → AI & summaries; in Settings → Privacy it's called Allow online journal analysis). The same switch covers journal text, meeting transcripts, questions and notes. Before anything is sent, secrets such as keys and card numbers, and contact details such as email addresses and phone numbers, are redacted.

Get started#

Head to Getting started to join the private beta, install Everpaper and walk through setup.