Your files, your folders
Notes stay ordinary Markdown files in a folder you choose. Open them with anything, back them up like anything, and leave whenever you like.
In testing · not yet available to download
Notes and todos, in files you own.
Jotzen is a desktop app for Markdown notes that stay on your computer. It gathers the todos, tags and links scattered across your notes and folders into one calm place, and gives the AI assistant you choose a safe way to work with them.
Jotzen was called Waystone until November 4, 2026.
Ready for your AI
Your own assistant can search and read your notes and todos through a local MCP server, and AI agents can work right in your files.
Every todo, one place
Write - [ ] in any note. Jotzen gathers todos from every folder into a list, calendar, board and timeline, and edits only that line.
Private by design
No analytics, no ads, and no AI of its own: you choose the assistant and what it sees. Optional sync is end-to-end encrypted.
Built for AI
Your notes, ready for your AI.
Assistants forget between conversations; your notes don’t. Connect Claude, Codex or any assistant that speaks MCP, and it can search your notes, read them, and see what’s due, from files you own.
- A local MCP server: search, read and todos; writing when you allow it, every change labelled.
- AI agents work in plain files, guided by the vault’s AGENTS.md.
- You choose the folders; every request is logged on your computer.
- No AI of Jotzen’s own, and nothing hosted: your assistant, your account.
Example
> Summarize my garden project and
tell me what's still open.
• jotzen · search_notes("garden")
• jotzen · read_note("Projects/Garden redesign.md")
• jotzen · list_todos(folder: "Projects")
Raised beds on the south fence, a brick
path and a herb spiral. Open: order the
timber (high, due Oct 22), ask Priya
about the soil test, plant garlic.Todos
Plans that live in your notes.
Write todos where they belong: in a trip plan, a project note, a daily page. Add a priority, a start and due date, a person or a tag right in the line, and Jotzen brings them together.
- A list with filters, grouped by date, priority, project or note.
- A calendar and a board you can drag todos across.
- A timeline of what runs from when to when.
- Reminders, repeating todos and a weekly review.
Find
Search that reads your receipts.
Search every note, the text inside your PDFs, and even the words in photos and screenshots your notes show. Recognition happens on your computer; nothing is uploaded.
- Exact phrases, exclusions and filters by tag, date and folder.
- Saved searches, and replace across notes with a preview first.
- Links, backlinks, unlinked mentions and a graph.
Organize
Every folder at a glance.
Click a folder to see its notes with a preview of each, its tags and open todos. Tables, math, diagrams, callouts and embeds are drawn as you write, and Obsidian’s conventions just work.
Organizing notes →
Plain files. Encrypted when they travel.
Your vault is a folder of Markdown. Sync between devices is optional, and when it is on, notes are encrypted on your device before they leave it: the service stores only text it cannot read.
- Share a single note, and edit it live together.
- Lock sensitive text behind a password only you know.
- Thirty days of history for synced notes; local history for the rest.
Notes/
├── Home.md
├── Groceries.md
├── Trips/
│ ├── Japan trip.md
│ └── Kyoto restaurants.md
├── Projects/
│ └── Garden redesign.md
├── Daily/
│ └── 2026-10-15.md
└── Lease agreement.pdf
Jotzen is in testing.
There is no public download yet. The documentation describes what the app does today.