The SILONotes guide

What SILONotes is, how it is laid out, and how to write your first note.

Blocks, formatting, checklists, colours, flags and attachments, on both the desktop and the phone.

Split the desktop editor into up to four panes and work across notes side by side.

Give each part of your life its own compartment, let hashtags route notes automatically, and arrange the list the way you think.

Full-text search across every note and every imported book, plus the command palette.

Promote a checkbox into a real task with a due date and a priority, and get reminded without leaving your notes.

Capture a thought out loud, keep the audio, and turn it into text on your own terms.

Have any note or book chapter read aloud, with a proper player and a queue.

Import EPUB, PDF, DOCX and more, then read them properly with highlights and read-aloud.

Point SILONotes at a model you control: Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Insights, Polish and Chat, applied to the note you are looking at.

Ask questions across a SILO, a hand-picked set of notes, or your whole library, with citations.

Make a .silo archive, restore it, and move your whole library between your phone and your computer.

Pair a phone and a desktop once, then keep them on the same notes through any folder both can see. No server, no account.

See where your space has gone, recover a deleted note, and reclaim what is no longer needed.

A plain account of where your notes live, what can make a network request, and what triggers it.

Six themes, typography built for long sessions, and layout controls on the desktop.

Every desktop shortcut, grouped by what you are doing at the time.

What each settings screen holds, on both platforms.

The things that most often go wrong, and what to check first.