Don’t browse your notes. Peck them. Get answers.
Every document you feed Kip becomes part of a cross-linked wiki — the nest — built from entity, concept, source and person pages that cite each other. It opens straight into a chat prompt; the editor is a mode you toggle into.
Drop an egg. Hatch a nest. Peck for answers.
The lifecycle of an idea in Kip: four verbs, one folder. Documents go in, a queryable wiki comes out — and read-only health checks keep it trustworthy as it grows.
Drop it in
Drag a Markdown, text, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF file onto the window — or drop it in pages/. Office and PDF files are converted to Markdown on the way in.
It becomes pages
Hatch sources turns each document into a set of linked entity, concept, source and person pages — the nest. A named person becomes a person page with their email, role and org, and shows up in the People panel — your addressbook.
Ask the nest
Type a question; answers cite the [[pages]] they came from. Or tell Kip a fact, or about an upcoming meeting.
Keep it tidy
Read-only health checks run over the generated wiki, so the nest stays trustworthy as it grows.
Chat-first, editor always one key away
Kip doesn’t reinvent your notes — it inherits them. Everything you know from Logseq works exactly as you expect: Markdown notes & journals, whiteboards, block references and backlinks, untouched. Press Ctrl/⌘ + 1 to toggle the editor.
Mid-answer, a bounded skill loop can run real tasks — search the web, read a spreadsheet from your disk, build a Word doc or a deck from your notes — then fold the result back into the reply.
Your nest, your machine
Privacy is a configuration, not a promise. Pick a hosted provider, or keep every byte on-device.
Reminders & calendar
Tell Kip what’s coming in plain words — “I have a meeting with Acme on Friday at 15h” — done, that’s the whole interface. It sets an OS notification and hands you a prep brief assembled from the relevant pages in your nest. Google / Outlook / Fastmail ICS links pull events in the same way.
Provider choice
Three ways to power Hatch and Peck. Kip AI — our managed layer, no setup, tuned for the nest — is coming, but it’s invite-only while we test. Today: bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepSeek key, or run Local via Ollama and keep everything on-device. Either way your graph stays a plain Markdown folder — no lock-in.
- Kip AI — managed, no setup (invite-only, not live yet)
- Bring your own — Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepSeek (API key)
- Local via Ollama — everything on-device
- Plain Markdown graph, optional Dropbox sync — no lock-in
People & the addressbook
Kip recognises the people in what you read and file them as person pages — name, email, org, role — deduped by email. The People panel is a filterable addressbook, and a follow-up like “check back with Joeri on Friday” links straight back to the person’s page.
A real installer. No account.
A signed Windows installer or a self-updating Linux AppImage — the in-app banner updates you to the next release in place.
Windows 10 / 11 · x64
Download the installer and run it — per-user, no admin prompt, start-menu shortcut. Updates itself from there.
Linux · x64 · AppImage
Make it executable and run — it updates itself. A portable tar.gz is on the releases page too.
From zero to first peck
The first five minutes, in order.
Open a folder as your graph
Everything Kip creates — pages/, nest/, clucks/ — lives inside it.
Set an LLM provider
Settings → LLM: Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepSeek (API key), or Local via Ollama. Hit Test connection. Once Kip AI ships, this step goes away.
Drop a document
Put a .md or .txt file into <graph>/pages/.
Hatch it
Header “…” menu → Hatch sources → Start. It becomes pages under The Nest.
Peck
Type a question in the prompt. Answers link back to the pages they came from.
Toggle the editor
Ctrl/⌘ + 1 whenever you want to read or write notes directly.
v0.7: early, rough, and looking for feedback
Kip is a personal project at the beginning of its life. Here’s exactly what that means, so you can decide with open eyes.
→ Which is where you come in. Bugs and ideas go to Issues; questions and general feedback to Discussions.
Come peck around.
One folder away from knowing what your notes would say back.