Make something of what you learn.

Graphite is the AI notebook for makers: your notes are plain markdown — files on your Mac in the Mac app, or kept by your browser on the web — and it works with the AI you choose, a key from any major provider or an OpenRouter account, and that provider bills you for what you use. Free with your own AI key. Two plans are coming: Plus, $4.99 a month, or $39.99 a year (4 months free), to publish your notes to the web, and Pro, $19.99 a month, or $159.99 a year (4 months free), with Graphite's AI. Your notes never lock. It isn't related to the other products named Graphite, such as the code review tool at graphite.com.

Graphite is free today: the notebook, its AI on your own key — your AI provider bills you for what you use — and, with an account, publishing your notes to the web at a link Graphite hosts. Two plans are coming: Plus, $4.99 a month, or $39.99 a year (4 months free), and Pro, $19.99 a month, or $159.99 a year (4 months free), which adds Graphite's AI, with no key to get. Each will start with 7 days free, with a card. Your notes will never lock: capture, opening, writing, linking, searching, your folders and projects, the Map, the receipts' totals and export will always work without a plan.

Only when you keep something or accept a change, with Undo. And when it drafts, it arranges your own sentences; anything it can't find in your notes it leaves out or asks you for. An edit it suggests — Format, Fix the spelling, Shorten it, Refine the language, Write it up, or what you typed — and a summary show in the note, change by change, and nothing is written until you accept them: each one, all of them, or none. A summary is suggested as the note's own Summary section, at its top. What's missing goes into the note as a section of its own and an outline under a heading, when you keep them; an answer or a research brief, when you choose Add to note, is worked into the note where each part belongs, under a new heading where it's new, as changes for you to accept or reject; a draft you keep is a new note of its own, and a script for a video is saved as one when you choose. Each is a line in the Logbook. With File my Inbox on, it also writes one line of frontmatter on a note it files — project:, or topic: for a folder — and nothing else. An article you ask for, with As an article under Write it up, is written into a new note of its own, labelled Written by Graphite. It never changes a word you wrote unless you accept the change.

Not for your notes: writing, search, links and the Map work without one, and so do your folders and projects, tags, publishing a page, Copy as Markdown and the plain version of a script for a video. What Graphite does with AI needs one, because it calls a model — filing, reading receipts, explaining, answering about a note, finding what's missing, arranging an outline or a draft from your sentences, suggesting edits, researching, connecting, teaching, asking your notebook and checking a page before you publish it. Paste a key from any major provider in Settings → AI, or connect OpenRouter instead. How to get an AI API key for Graphite walks through each provider: where to make a key, what light use costs, and how to cap what it can spend.

In the Mac app, in a folder of plain markdown files on your Mac: Documents/Graphite/My notebook for a new one, or any folder you open with Open folder as notebook… in the File menu. In a browser, in that browser's storage on that device, which a browser may clear — Safari does after about a week without a visit — so keep a copy now and then with Settings › Notebook › Keep a copy, as markdown files in a .zip or a folder. If you used Graphite in a browser at graphite-silk.vercel.app before 28 October, your notes are still there: open that address and keep a copy. Unzipped, the copy is a folder the Mac app opens as a notebook; the browser notebook can't load one yet.

They stay where they are. In the Mac app, choose Open folder as notebook… and pick your vault: Graphite leaves every file where you put it, except a photo or a PDF in the vault's Inbox folder that, after your yes, it reads as a receipt: that moves once, when it's filed, and Undo puts it back. Graphite keeps a few top-level folder names as its own — Notes, Inbox, Receipts and Published, however they're capitalized, and the folders earlier versions of Graphite made. If your vault already has a Notes, Inbox, Receipts or Published folder at its top, Graphite treats it as its own: a note in it that's in no project or folder shows in the Inbox, where File my Inbox can file it with one line of frontmatter. Every other folder is yours. Graphite never moves a note out of a folder of yours, and a note in one stays out of the Inbox and is never filed. From the Mac app's next update, the sidebar lists your folders under On disk, each opening the notes in it. A note at your vault's top level, where Obsidian puts a new one unless you choose a folder, is in the Inbox too, until it's in a project or a folder of Graphite's. A file it didn't make is a note. New notes go into Notes, Graphite's own folder on disk — and so do the projects and folders you make in Graphite, each a note — and receipts under Receipts, by year. Notes stay plain markdown, [[wikilinks]] and callouts use the same syntax — including links written with a folder path or a .md ending, like [[Clients/Plan]] — and frontmatter fields Graphite doesn't use are kept exactly as they were. A markdown link to a note, [Plan](Plan.md), is shown as a link, but isn't a backlink yet and isn't rewritten when that note is renamed. A project: or topic: field your vault already uses counts only when it links to a project or a folder you've set up in Graphite, so it doesn't empty your Inbox. JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and HEIC images and PDFs show in your notes: ![[photo.jpg]] shows the picture, and ![[scan.pdf]] a card that opens it. Showing one never changes it or adds a file beside it. Other attachments, like SVG, video and audio, stay in the files untouched. The browser version keeps its notes in the browser and can't open a folder. Graphite with your Obsidian vault, a page of its own, says what we tested on 9 November 2026 and what it doesn't do yet.

Not yet. The desktop app is for Macs with Apple silicon, on macOS 13 or later. On an Intel Mac, Windows or Linux, use Graphite in your browser, with your notes stored in that browser.