NoteDB is a local-first desktop note database built with Tauri, React, Next.js, Rust, and SQLite.
Each vault is stored as a local SQLite database, so notes, links, tags, history, and graph relationships stay queryable without a cloud service. The same structure also makes the data useful for analytics, search experiments, embeddings, and machine-learning workflows.
- Local vaults stored on disk
- SQLite-backed notes, tags, links, and history
- Autosaving editor
- Wiki-style links and backlinks
- Full-text search
- Graph view for note and base relationships
- No account, sync service, or remote database required
SQLite keeps the app portable while preserving a structured data model. A vault can be inspected, backed up, queried, exported, or used as a dataset for downstream tools.
Useful downstream workflows include:
- semantic search
- embedding pipelines
- recommendation experiments
- local ML preprocessing
- graph and tag analysis
- Node.js 20+
- Rust 1.77+
- Tauri system dependencies for your operating system
npm install
npm run tauri devnpm run tauri buildnpm run build
cd src-tauri
cargo testsrc/app- application shellsrc/components- React componentssrc/lib- shared frontend types and Tauri API wrappersrc-tauri/src- Rust data layer and desktop commandssrc-tauri/migrations- SQLite schema migrations
Download the latest installer from the Releases page.
- macOS (Apple Silicon):
.dmg - Windows:
.msi(coming soon)
After installation, launch DBnote like any other desktop application.
MIT