Where this is going

The direction, not a schedule

BrainFrame is deliberately ambitious, so here's an honest map: what works today, the work happening right now, and the shape of where it's headed. It's a direction, not a timetable — and not a promise about the order things land.

Working today

What works today

Right now BrainFrame is a desktop app you can run, with a working Markdown editor and live preview — you can write notes and read them back. That's the honest extent of it today. The linking that connects a note to its source doesn't work yet — not even internal wikilinks — and since that connection is the whole point of BrainFrame, it's exactly where the work is headed. Everything below is where it goes from here.

In active development

Cross-device sync

This is the work happening right now. We're building CRDT-based sync so your notes and library stay consistent across every device — offline-first, with no central server in the middle. It's the meatiest, most interesting problem in the whole project, and the most rewarding place for a contributor to jump in and make a real dent.

Next priority

Linking notes to their sources

This is the capability that makes BrainFrame what it's for — and today none of it works, not even internal wikilinks. So it's moving to the front of the line: durable links from a note back to the exact passage it came from, backlinks between notes, and reading a note in the flow of its source. Making this real is the near-term focus.

And the wider direction, in no particular order:

  • Public release on iOS and Android

    The mobile apps are in active development. Tester builds come first — sign up to be among the first to get them — and the destination is a full public launch on the App Store and Google Play.

  • Broader format support

    Today the reader handles images and Markdown. This is everything after that — PDF, EPUB, DOCX, archived web pages, even Linux man pages — each one brought in and cross-linked the same way, so more of your library lives in one place.

  • Optional cloud sync and backup

    For those who want it, an opt-in cloud layer for sync and backup — never required, always in keeping with local-first.

  • A standalone BrainFrame device

    The long-horizon idea: dedicated hardware for reading and note-taking, away from a general-purpose computer.

This is the direction, not a schedule. If any of it is the kind of thing you'd want to help build, that's exactly why it's out in the open.

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