a memory for your Mac

Tap one key.
Get the reply you
would have written.

Minne quietly remembers what you work on — the threads, the decisions, the people — and writes from it wherever you type. In your words. On your machine.

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free and open sourcemacOS 14+uses the AI you already pay for

[[see-it-work]]

You are about to write
something you already know.

So don't. Tap right-Option and Minne writes it — from the thread in front of you and everything it has watched you do. Four ordinary moments, the same key every time.

Minne read the thread, remembered what you promised Ingrid, and wrote it the way you write.

Messages

Today

IB

Ingrid Berg · 09:42

Can we talk before I fly out on Friday? I still need the budget, and Ada asked whether the team dinner is Wednesday or Thursday.

Write a reply…

Hi Ingrid — Thursday works. Shall we say 14:00 at the office? That gives us time for the Q3 budget before you fly, and I'll be at the team dinner after.

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Mail

Re: retry logic — half an hour?

DR

Daniel Roos · yesterday

Any chance you're free early next week to go through the retry logic with me? Whenever suits — I just don't want to guess at the numbers again.

Reply…

Tuesday works — 10:00? Good timing: the new retry numbers land Monday, so we can go through them together instead of guessing like last time.

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Notes

Monday briefing

Start writing…

Oslo move — as it stands today. The budget goes to Ingrid before her Friday flight. Lease dates are still open: the landlord owes us March or April. Ada takes the billing migration first, then the office setup. Team dinner moved to Thursday, 14:00 at the office.

Minne

What did Ingrid and I agree on last week?

Looking through your memory…

Three things:

  • The Q3 budget goes to her before her Friday flight.
  • The team dinner moved to Thursday, 14:00 at the office.
  • She confirms the lease dates once the landlord answers.

From what you wrote and read between 11 and 15 August.

Ask your memory…

Nothing is typed into your document until you press Insert — and ⌘Z takes it straight back out.

[[what-you-get]]

The part you dread
is the part it does.

  • You stop scrolling back.

    Nobody rereads a three-week thread for fun. Minne has already been there, so the context you would have gone digging for is in the first draft.

  • It sounds like you.

    It learns your tone from your own writing — short or warm, English or Norwegian, sign-off and all. Drafts come out sounding like a person who was paying attention.

  • Five minutes becomes fifteen seconds.

    That is one reply. Do the arithmetic on a working week of them and you get your Friday afternoon back.

  • Nothing to keep up.

    No tagging, no notebooks, no “capture this”. Minne watches the work you were doing anyway and remembers it for you.

[[your-mac-only]]

A memory this good
should only be yours.

Minne has no account and no server. What it remembers is a folder of plain notes on your Mac — open them, edit them, delete them, take them with you.

  • Nothing is stored anywhere but your Mac. No sign-up, no tracking, no cloud copy.
  • It reads the words in the window you are working in — never a picture of your screen.
  • Card numbers and ID numbers are blanked out before anything is saved, and password fields are skipped entirely.
  • One button erases every last note, for good.
  • It runs on the AI you already pay for — Claude, ChatGPT, or a model on your own machine.
Your memory, as it sits on disk: notes with names you recognise.

[[what-leaves]]

What leaves your Mac, exactly

The only network traffic Minne makes is requests to the AI provider you signed in with — your account, your key. There is no Minne server to talk to, and no telemetry. This is what each feature sends that provider, and nothing else goes anywhere:

draft
the field you are writing in, the window around it, and the notes Minne recalls — one model request.
chat
your question, and the notes the answer needs.
sync
recent captures, in batches, already masked, to be distilled into notes.
sign-in
one OAuth exchange with that same provider. An API key stays on your Mac and is shown to no one else.
never
the folder itself. No backup, no cloud sync, no upload path in the code.

Want even that to stay home? Point Minne at Ollama on your own machine and model traffic never leaves it.

minne

n. memory. Swedish, Norwegian.

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