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Every font you can choose in settings now ships with the app, so notes no longer depend on fonts installed on your computer.
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Write it down. Connect the pieces. Find your next step. A calm desktop home for your notes, kept as plain Markdown files on your own computer.
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From a thought to a next step.
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Make Today useful
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Thinking Board
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VispNote keeps your writing in local Markdown vaults. Use the core workflow without AI, without a hosted account, and without giving up access to your raw notes.
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Weekly review
Three things that mattered this week, and what they change next week.
What moved
- Shipped the onboarding rewrite from Product strategy.
- Read two papers for Local-first research.
Next actions
- Draft the launch note 2026-08-07
- Reply to the storage question from Design sync
- Book the retro
type:: review# Weekly reviewThree things that mattered this week, and what they change next week.## What moved- Shipped the onboarding rewrite from [[Product strategy]].- Read two papers for [[Local-first research]].## Next actions- [ ] Draft the launch note @remind 2026-08-07- [ ] Reply to the storage question from [[Design sync]]- [x] Book the retro
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Latest release: v0.2.7
VispNote v0.2.7 is available now.
Published September 23, 2026. Builds are ready for Windows, macOS, AppImage, and DEB.
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