{"slug": "show-hn-velocitynote-a-tiny-markdown-notebook-with-local-ai", "title": "Show HN: VelocityNote – A tiny Markdown notebook with local AI", "summary": "VelocityNote, a compact Markdown cross-platform notebook under 100 MB, has been released for Windows and macOS with built-in local AI capabilities including a llama.cpp-based agent for summarization, OCR, vision-based image description, and speech-to-text dictation. The app stores notes in SQLite, supports full-text search, and exposes an MCP server and CLI for AI agents, ensuring data stays on-device with no external provider or per-token limits.", "body_md": "Hi HN — I built VelocityNote, a compact, Markdown cross-platform notebook.\n\nThe desktop app is under 100 MB. It starts quickly and remains responsive under memory pressure.\n\nVelocityNote has a built-in, pluggable AI system that can run local models:\n\n- It is a local LLM app: you can use a llama.cpp-based local agent to summarize notes and tasks. More features, including translation, are coming. - It is an intelligent screenshot app: built-in OCR extracts text, while vision models can describe your images. - It is a dictation app: with Silero VAD and speech-to-text, you can record and transcribe hours-long meetings entirely on your device. - It is an app for managing documents: it supports importing a variety of file formats, including PDF and Word, and migrating data from other notebook databases.\n\nWith local models, your data always stays on your device, with no external provider or per-token limits.\n\nUnder the hood, notes are stored in SQLite. Full-text search makes searching large notebooks fast. Everything remains available offline and can be exported as standard Markdown.\n\nVelocityNote also exposes an MCP server and a command-line interface, allowing it to serve as a local second brain for both you and your AI agents. Agents can use ultra-fast full-text search to find notes, then read, create, and update them through explicit tools instead of scraping the UI or directly modifying the database.\n\nVelocityNote is cross-platform and currently available for Windows and macOS.\n\nDownload:\n[https://velocitynote.app/download](https://velocitynote.app/download)\n\nReleases, issues, and feedback:\n[https://github.com/VelocityNote/velocitynote](https://github.com/VelocityNote/velocitynote)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496137](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496137)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-velocitynote-a-tiny-markdown-notebook-with-local-ai", "canonical_source": "https://velocitynote.app/", "published_at": "2026-08-30 06:17:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-30 06:22:14.523918+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["VelocityNote", "llama.cpp", "Silero VAD", "SQLite", "MCP", "Windows", "macOS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-velocitynote-a-tiny-markdown-notebook-with-local-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-velocitynote-a-tiny-markdown-notebook-with-local-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-velocitynote-a-tiny-markdown-notebook-with-local-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-velocitynote-a-tiny-markdown-notebook-with-local-ai.jsonld"}}