# The second brain that becomes whatever you need.
Loam is where you capture everything, organize it and make sense of it. Every feature is a plugin anyone can write.
✓ Free forever · ✓ 100% Open source · ✓ Native
Everything is a plugin, and you can make yours.
Every capability beyond writing is an optional brick. Pick built-in or community ones, or ask your agent to build a new one.
Meetings
Agendas, decisions and action items that link back to your projects.
Git Sync
Back up and sync your vault with Git. No account required.
Tasks
Keep to-dos inside your notes and see what is due across the whole vault.
Daily notes
A fresh note every day, with your open tasks one click away.
Canvas
An open canvas for your ideas, saved as JSON Canvas (.canvas).
Collections
Database views over a folder of notes, saved as portable .base files.
Your notes are scattered across 9 apps. Bring them home.
Notes, tasks, meetings, maps: each one lives in a different app, in a different format. Loam puts them all in one folder of plain Markdown files that you and your AI agents can both read.
- Cloud-only: your pages live in their database
- Proprietary blocks, not plain files
- Agents can’t just open a folder
- Collections turn any folder into a table, board or gallery
- Plain .md files on your disk
- Your agent reads and edits them directly
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
Hermes
Grok bot
Muse
Use casesBring the AI agents you already use, on your Mac or in the cloud
Loam’s assistant connects directly to the coding agents installed on your Mac. Cloud agents work on the same files once your vault is synced to their server. No new account, no extra subscription.
On your Mac
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor read, search and edit your notes like any other project folder.
In the cloud
Hermes, Grok bot, Muse and other always-on agents reach the same vault from a server, so your second brain stays within reach away from your Mac.
Everything is markdown
Your vault is a plain folder of Markdown files, so every agent works from the same source of truth: search your second brain, reorganize a folder, summarize a week, brainstorm, or create any plugin.
Plugins
Everything is a plugin
Most apps force a choice: stay simple and hit a wall, or learn a heavy workspace you don’t need. In Loam, every capability beyond writing is an optional brick. Turn off what you don’t use or build what’s missing in minutes.
Agendas, decisions and action items that link back to your projects.
Back up and sync your vault with Git. No account required.
Database views over a folder of notes, saved as portable .base files.
A fresh note every day, with your open tasks one click away.
An open canvas for your ideas, saved as JSON Canvas (.canvas).
Keep to-dos inside your notes and see what is due across the whole vault.
Ask for a feature. Get a plugin.
Missing something? Tell Loam’s coding assistant what you want in one sentence. It writes the plugin, drops it in your vault and reloads it live. No code, no store, no waiting.
Ask for a feature. Get a plugin.
Missing something? Tell Loam’s coding assistant what you want in one sentence. It writes the plugin, drops it in your vault and reloads it live. No code, no store, no waiting.
Make me a plugin that tracks my reading streak.
Remember everything you’ve ever written
Every decision, every promise, that book a friend mentioned in June. Ask in plain words: Loam answers in seconds from your own notes, sources included. A real second brain.
What did we decide about pricing last quarter?
You moved to a single paid tier in March, after the beta feedback in your interview notes. The open question on annual billing is still assigned to Anna.
What did I promise people this week?
Three follow-ups: send the deck to Paul (Monday call), review Anna’s draft by Friday, and book the venue for the offsite. Two are still open.
That book about habits someone recommended to me?
It was Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, recommended by Marie at lunch in June. You wrote: “start absurdly small”.
Which notes mention the onboarding redesign?
Found 7 notes across Projects, Meetings and Inbox. The latest decision: skip the tour, show a sample vault. I can link them into one hub note.
What did we decide about pricing last quarter?
You moved to a single paid tier in March, after the beta feedback in your interview notes. The open question on annual billing is still assigned to Anna.
Remember everything you’ve ever written
Every decision, every promise, that book a friend mentioned in June. Ask in plain words: Loam answers in seconds from your own notes, sources included. A real second brain.
Your agent works on your files
Ask in plain words and watch it happen: a messy folder sorted, your notes linked together. Everything is a plain file, so you review every change before it lands.
- ORGANIZE: Sort my Inbox into projects and archive the rest
- MIND MAP: Turn my research notes on pricing into a mind map
- TASKS: Find every to-do buried in my notes and list them
- LINK: Link this note to everything related in my vault
Your agent works on your files
Ask in plain words and watch it happen: a messy folder sorted, your notes linked together. Everything is a plain file, so you review every change before it lands.
Just files in a folder. Yours forever.
Zero setup. Portable Markdown files on your disk, and that’s it.
Standard, open formats
Notes are CommonMark + GFM (.md) with YAML frontmatter. Collections use Obsidian-compatible .base files, boards use JSON Canvas (.canvas), sketches use .excalidraw.
Sync with iCloud Drive or Git
Because your vault is a regular folder, you can sync it through iCloud Drive, Git (git-sync plugin), or any file sync tool, with no account required.
One portable folder
Your settings, shortcuts, themes, and custom plugins live inside .loam/ right at the root of your vault. Copy the folder to another Mac and your entire notebook is ready.
The second brain that becomes whatever you need.
Free and open source. Point Loam at a folder of Markdown files and start capturing today. Your notes stay yours.
The second brain that becomes whatever you need.
Free and open source. Point Loam at a folder of Markdown files and start capturing today. Your notes stay yours.