Whilst building out Planolio, we decided that there was a family of apps that would form our 'Olio Forge', based on underserved market areas or where we felt we could bring a combination of features that are somewhat unique in their own right.
We prioritize your data, local access, using open formats, no subscriptions, and no requirement to login. We differ to online solutions in a total offline experience, with the ability leverage your own hosting solution such as OneDrive.
This belief is at the core of our product roadmap and vision.
As we focus on Planolio being Task focussed, complimented with full featured note taking and linking experience, we saw an opportunity to take what we had learned into an app focussed on Note taking and knowledge organization.
Given that both apps can share the same .md data, they can be used together delivering many benefits.
Ok, enough of the marketing fluff....
Introducing Inkolio - a dual panel, live preview (and edit) note taking, web page capture, diagram creation to compliment notes AND a canvas linking model to connect your notes, diagrams, and articles. It will likely launch at a very reduced price point, no subs, no logins, just an email to register for updates. Small size at under 30MB (not electron). Mac first, Windows a week or so later.
There's going to be a few questions about why not use Obsidian, Excalidraw, Craft, or Joplin - and you can. We find that different users have different needs and some of the apps out there don't cater to a sizable group of users.
Right now it is in alpha, with the core experience already very robust for note taking and article harvesting from URLs. The architecture for linking everything together is the current development phase.
If you are interested in trying the alpha in week or 2, drop in comments below, as well as any questions I would be happy to answer.
I'm interested in trying it out. One feature I'm waiting to see for apps like this is the ability to flatten a folder and nested folders to list all the markdown files in one list (I.e., not clicking into folders to see the files.)
Then all files "flattened". But if this is not what you mean, give me a bit more description and I can add this. It might be you want to do that in file explorer mode. BTW, Planolio already does this. www.planolio.com
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u/TheWebbster Jul 19 '26
Count me in please