Marginalia

the core thesis behind vellum:

• notes should be owned and solely accessible to the note-taker, not a SaaS platform
• notes shouldn’t be trapped inside an app. If the app dies or the company folds, then what? Apps are fungible, notes are not.
• every node (bullet, paragraph, code-block, quote, equation, image, etc.) should be easy to capture, discover, connect, zoom into, and build on
• last but certainly not least, a notes app should be genuinely lovely to use … the digital equivalent of a good fountain pen on fine paper (minus the drawbacks of handwriting)

thanks for being here.

this is marginalia … notes from building vellum, thinking out loud as we go. feature ideas, design decisions, the occasional dead end. nothing polished, nothing on a schedule.

if you’d like to follow along for the ride … we maintain a small, private Discord. a handful of early folks and us, talking through what’s being built, what’s broken, and what’s next. it’s invite-only and deliberately cozy … if that sounds like your kind of room, leave your email and we’ll send you an invite.