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04Memory

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Notes you don’thave to write.

Your workspace is a folder of plain Markdown files on your Mac: one note per person, company, project, meeting and decision. Your agent writes and links them while you work, and reads them before it answers.

  1. 1Your notes, inside Glowstone
  2. 2And it’s a folder on your Mac
  3. 3Your agent writes as you talk
  4. 4Links make the graph

It fills itself

Second brains fail because filing is a second job. Here the meetings, the dictation and the agent fill it, so it stays current without discipline.

Every answer starts from what you know

The agent reads the relevant notes before answering, so “did we promise SSO?” is answered from the decision you took, not guessed.

It’s just files

Open them in Obsidian, a text editor or Finder. Back them up by putting the folder in iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox. Change agent tomorrow and the memory comes with you.

Step 1

Your notes, inside Glowstone

Switch the right column from Memory to Documents and the whole vault is there: one folder per kind of thing, the notes your agent wrote, and anything you added yourself. Open a note to read or edit it in place, with its links to everything else.

A folder appears when its first note arrives, never before. Every note has a short header (type, status, who’s involved), which is what lets the agent answer questions instead of only searching text.

04All of it is a folder on your Mac. Next: the same folder, in Finder.
Documents, a folder, a note: the vault from inside Glowstone.
Step 2

And it’s a folder on your Mac

What Glowstone shows you is a normal folder on your disk: people/, companies/, projects/, meetings/, decisions/, daily/. Open it in Finder, Obsidian or any text editor and you find the same files with the same names. Nothing lives in a database you can’t open.

Plain folders and Markdown. Open it in Finder, Obsidian or any editor.
The same folder in Finder: what you see is what the agent reads.
Step 3

Your agent writes as you talk

Mention that Maya’s export passed QA and the agent updates Atlas.md, Maya’s note and today’s. Every change is shown under the answer, and you can review it line by line and undo it.

03Every change is listed, and can be reviewed or undone.
A sentence in the chat, three notes updated, every change reviewable.
Step 4

Links make the graph

Notes mention each other with [[links]]. That’s what lets you ask “what do I know about Marta?” or “what does the data team have open?”, and what the graph on the right draws. It lights up as the agent reads.

03Ask, and the notes it reads light up.
Notes arrive, links connect them, and the ones the agent reads light up.

Your memory is yours.Not ours.

Glowstone is an app on your Mac, not a cloud service. Your notes are a folder on your disk and your chats are stored on your Mac. There’s no Glowstone account, and no Glowstone server that receives any of it.

We can’t read it

Not your notes, not your chats, not your meetings. Nothing is uploaded to us, so there is nothing for us to read, lose or hand over. On its own the app only checks for updates and downloads the speech model once.

Only the agent you choose sees it

When you ask something, your agent reads the notes it needs to answer: Claude Code sends that to Anthropic, Codex to OpenAI, under your own account and their terms. Choosing the agent is choosing who sees your work, and that’s your call, not ours.

Take it anywhere, any time

It’s plain Markdown in a folder. Open it in Obsidian, put it in iCloud or Drive, copy it to another Mac. No export step, no lock-in, nothing to cancel: stop using Glowstone tomorrow and every note is still yours, where it was.

Two things only leave your Mac if you set them up: connectors (they belong to your agent) and Telegram (messages go through Telegram). And if you ever send us a problem report, you see everything it contains before it’s sent.

Things to ask

  • “What do I know about Northwind?”
  • “What’s open on Atlas, and who is it waiting on?”
  • “When did we decide export goes before the redesign, and why?”
  • “What has Maya committed to this month?”
  • “Summarise Beacon’s user tests so far.”
  • “Make a note for every person in today’s meetings.”

Questions

Can I use my Obsidian vault?

Yes. Glowstone uses plain Markdown and wiki-style links, so you can point it at your vault or have it copied. See the guide on bringing your memory.

Is there sync between Macs?

No. The workspace is a folder, so put it inside iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox if you want it everywhere, and point Glowstone at it in Settings → Change folder.

Bring your own AI

Use your Claude or ChatGPT plan, with a memory of your work

Glowstone doesn’t sell its own AI. Sign in with the agent you already use, on the plan you already pay for, and it gets your notes, your meetings and your tools. Switch agents any time: the memory stays.

Glowstone is free

  • The app: free to download and use, with no account and no card.
  • Transcription and dictation: free, with Whisper running on your Mac. No per-minute fees, no word limits.
  • The AI: the agent you already use, on your own plan, or free models through OpenCode and Kilo Code. We take no cut.
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