The notes app your AI can actually read.
Vist is a fast Markdown notes-and-tasks app with a built-in MCP server. Claude, ChatGPT and Mistral read and write your notes directly — and remember what they wrote last time.
Persisting agent context across sessions
Most chat assistants forget the moment you close the tab. The pattern below uses Vist as the shared substrate — load_context on session start, record_memory on session end.
Open threads
- Draft the
decision_logshape - Wire the Claude desktop MCP entry to
vist://memory - Reconcile Ankush's edits from yesterday's session
Your hands never leave the keyboard.
One shortcut — ⌘K — opens every action. New note, new task, new folder, jump to file, change setting.
The palette is fuzzy, scoped, and contextual: type "new note in work" and you've created and opened it before your mouse has moved.
Read the design notes →Your AI reads and writes your notes directly.
Vist runs a built-in MCP server. Wire it into Claude desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client and your assistant can search your notes, summarise them, and create new ones — without copy-paste.
Ask your AI to ingest any source — a PDF, a webpage, a video transcript — and it lands in your personal wiki, searchable and linkable from any note.
How MCP makes notes a memory layer →Stop re-explaining yourself every morning.
Vist gives your assistant a long-term memory: decisions you made, projects you're working on, people you talked to. Stored as notes, not as a black box.
It learns once. It remembers across every chat, every assistant, every device. You can read the memory — and edit it — like any other note.
Why memory belongs in your notes app →— resolved 3 days ago, w/ Ankush
forma · billing → blocked on Stripe webhook
Underneath all of this, it's a really good editor.
Markdown that renders as you type. Inline tasks that pull due dates automatically. Code blocks with syntax. Tables. Links. Folders. The boring parts done right.
Fast on a five-year-old laptop. Yours to export as plain Markdown at any time.
Better ways to read, write, and present →
Linear is to Jira
what Vist is to Notion.
More information per scroll. Fewer cover photos, callout boxes, and toggles-inside-toggles. Designed for a person who already knows what they're doing.
Keyboard-first, command-palette-driven, MCP-native. Built for the way developers and PMs actually work, in 2026, with five AI tabs open.
EU-hosted on Hetzner. Plain Markdown export. Take everything with you, anytime. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary blocks you have to extricate later.
The unglamorous things, done right.
The features above are the reasons you'd switch. These are the reasons you'd stay.
Rich Markdown
CommonMark + GFM. Renders as you type. Round-trips through every other Markdown app on earth.
Inline tasks
Add a checkbox in any note and it's a task. Due dates parsed from natural language. Today view assembles itself.
Full-text + semantic search
Every word, every note. Postgres FTS for exact matches, Mistral embeddings + pgvector for conceptual ones.
Labels & folders
Both. Folders for the hierarchy in your head; labels for the cross-cutting concerns that don't fit it.
Templates
Per-folder defaults — meeting notes pre-filled, weekly review pre-structured, retro template ready to go.
Desktop app
macOS, Windows, Linux. Signs into your account; the editor is the web app.
Your notes never leave the EU.
- HostedHetzner · Falkenstein, Germany
- ComplianceGDPR-compliant, processor agreement available
- ExportEverything you wrote, as plain Markdown, anytime
- AnalyticsSimple Analytics & TelemetryDeck — first-party, EU-hosted
- CookiesNone — we set no tracking cookies
Free to try. Founder plan at €5 a month. Pro at €7.
For trying Vist and small personal libraries.
- Up to 200 notes
- 1 GB storage
- Web app + desktop
- One MCP connection
Early-adopter pricing — locked in for as long as you stay subscribed.
- Unlimited notes & 50 GB storage
- Everything in Pro, every future release
- Rate locked in permanently
For everyday use across all your devices and AI clients.
- Unlimited notes & tasks
- 50 GB storage
- Unlimited MCP connections + memory
Web first. Native when you want it.
Or just open the web app — it works everywhere.
No install. Same editor, same MCP server, same memory. Sign up and start in 20 seconds.
Stop translating yourself to your AI.
Vist is free to start. EU-hosted. Yours to export at any time.