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Planning

Ergo

Ergo is a local-first productivity workspace with on-device AI, scoped around notes, tasks, quick capture, and private personal context.

Planning. Still in development, with a narrower scope and a stronger local-first architecture.

The direction

One place for notes, tasks, and quick capture, with intelligence that could run on the phone when practical. The hope was less time spent maintaining a system, and more help deciding what to do next, without handing everyday notes to a server by default.

Architecture

Client

Native SwiftUI. Local storage and indexing on device.

Intelligence

On-device models and embeddings, with optional cloud providers.

Sync

CloudKit only when the user opts in.

What is changing

The app is getting narrower and more deliberate: local storage first, optional sync, and AI that works with private context instead of turning the whole product into a backend dependency.