Local first
Your notes live on your device, in a folder you chose. Scaffold works fully offline and never needs a connection to read, write or search.
About
About Scaffold
Scaffold exists so that thinking and remembering are not something you rent.
Most of what we know ends up scattered across apps that we do not control. Scaffold is a workspace for the opposite: notes you write once, connect to each other, and keep. It combines a calm Markdown editor with links, backlinks, a graph, canvas boards and properties, and then gets out of the way.
It runs on Windows today and stores everything as ordinary files. You decide where they live, how they sync and who sees them.
Scaffold is an independent project with its own code, its own design and its own opinions. The source code is private; what stays open is your data and the formats it is stored in.
What Scaffold stands for
Open formats
Markdown for notes, JSON Canvas for boards, YAML for properties. If Scaffold ever disappears, your notes do not.
Private by default
No accounts, no tracking, no telemetry. Plugins can do nothing you have not allowed.
Yours to shape
Themes, snippets, hotkeys and optional modules let the workspace fit how you think instead of the other way round.
Free, plainly
No subscription, no premium tier, no advertising. Everything is included for everyone.
Where to go next
- See everything it does on the features page, or read the documentation.
- Find out what is being built, and what will never be built, on the roadmap.
- Check privacy and security for the details behind the claims above.
- Questions? Try the FAQ or the contact page.