Tolaria is a desktop app for managing Mac Markdown Knowledge Base. People use it for a variety of use cases:
- Operate other minds and personal knowledge
- Organize company documents as a reference for AI
- OpenClaw/Auxiliary memory and store procedures
Personally, I use this run my life (Hey 👋 Luca here). I have a huge workspace of 10,000+ notes, the result of my refactoring work + lots of personal journaling and second encephalization.
You can find some Loom walkthroughs below – they are short and to the point:
- 📑 files-first — Your notes are plain Markdown files. They’re portable, work with any editor, and require no export steps. Your data belongs to you, not to any app.
- 🔌 git-first -Each Vault is a Git repository. You get full version history, the ability to use any Git remote, and zero dependency on Toleria servers.
- 🛜 Offline-first, zero lock-in – No account, no subscription, no cloud dependency. Your safe works completely offline and always will. If you stop using Tolaria, you don’t lose anything.
- 🔬 open source – Tolaria is free and open source. I created it for myself and to share with others.
- 📋 based on standards – Notes are Markdown files with YAML frontmatter. No proprietary formats, no locked-in data. Everything works with standard equipment if you decide to move away from Tolaria.
- 🔍 Type as lens, not schema -Types in Tolaria are navigation aids, not enforcement mechanisms. There are no required fields, no validation, just helpful categories for finding notes.
- 🪄AI-first but not only AI – A vault of files works very well with AI agents, but you are free to use whatever you want. We support Cloud Codes and the Codex CLI (for now), but you can edit the Vault with any AI you want. We provide an agent file to locate your agents.
- ⌨️ keyboard-first — Tolaria is designed for power-users who want to use the keyboard as little as possible. This is based on how we designed the editor and command palette.
- motiv made from actual use – Tolaria was created to manage my personal vault of over 10,000 notes, and I use it every day. Every feature exists because it solved a real problem.
Download the latest release here.
When you open Toleria for the first time you get the chance to clone the initial vault – which gives you a walkthrough of the entire app.
Open source and local setup
Tolaria is open source and built with Tori, React, and TypeScript. If you want to run or contribute to an app locally, here’s how to get started. You can also find the gist below 👇
- node.js 20+
- PNPM 8+
- rust stable
- macOS for development
open http://localhost:5173 For browser-based mock mode, or run the native desktop app with:
If you believe you have encountered a security issue, please report it privately as described in SECURITY.md.
Tolaria is licensed under the AGPL-3.0-or-later version. The Tolariya name and logo are covered under the project’s trademark policy.
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