Qalam / قلم — the pen
Your notes,
as memory for every AI.
Write once. Qalam turns the Markdown files on your Mac into private, searchable context for the AI tools you already use.
Every new chat starts from zero.
You explain the project. Your preferences. The decision from last Tuesday. Then you open another AI and do it again.
Qalam makes context a file, not a conversation.
“Here’s the background again…”
“For context, I’m building…”
“Remember that I prefer…”
The notebook
A calm place to think.
A durable place to be known.
Review with AI
From margin note
to exact edit.
Anchor feedback to the words that need work. Qalam asks your AI for a focused before-and-after change, then waits for you to approve it.
Try document review in your browser- 01Leave a note
Select any passage and start a comment thread beside the document.
- 02Ask for edits
AI turns open comments into validated, targeted suggestions instead of rewriting blindly.
- 03Keep judgment
Inspect every diff and approve changes one by one. Nothing changes without you.
Your context compounds.
Without becoming someone else’s database.
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Write naturally
Notes, decisions, preferences, project context. Plain Markdown in any folder you choose.
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Connect once
Qalam wires your folder to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and compatible AI clients through MCP.
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Ask with context
Your AI searches only when you ask. The source stays local, legible, and under your control.
One memory. Many tools.
Change the model.
Keep the context.
Local means local
No account.
No cloud vault.
No hostage notes.
Your notes are ordinary .md files. Open them with Qalam, Obsidian, VS Code, or a text editor twenty years from now.
- Storage
- Your device
- Format
- Plain Markdown
- AI access
- Explicit, through MCP
- Lock-in
- None
Give your ideas somewhere
to remember who you are.
Free during early access · macOS 12 or later