Your notes, searchable and answerable.
Orbit Thread is a local-first knowledge workspace. Notes, documents, links, images and voice live on your device, search works offline, and Ask answers questions with citations to the exact note, page or timestamp.
- Search runs on your device, even offline
- Answers link to the note they came from
- AI stays off until you pick a local model or your own key
Stop paying and your workspace stays readable, searchable and exportable.
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What Thread actually does.
Practical capabilities designed for real operations, without unnecessary complexity.
Capture
- Notes and long-form documents
- PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV and JSON
- Images read with on-device OCR
- Voice notes transcribed on your device
- Notion pages you choose to import
Understand
- @People, [[topics]] and links between notes
- Spaces for projects and clients
- Typed decisions, goals and constraints
- Earlier versions of a decision kept
- Duplicate and near-duplicate checks
Use
- Search everything, offline, typo-tolerant
- Ask with citations and a “Why?” trail
- Jump to the PDF page or audio moment
- Use it from Claude or Codex via MCP
- Export everything, any time
How you work in Thread.
Drop it in
Type, paste a link, drop a file or press the mic. Thread says “Saved.” the moment it is on your device.
Let it connect
People, topics and decisions stay attached, including when a decision changes later.
Ask and verify
Search or ask across everything, then open the cited source to check the answer.
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