A quiet place for your journal, your tasks and your half-formed ideas, kept in plain text files that are yours. When you want a hand, an agent helps you expand and organize what you wrote, and your words stay yours.
Free while in early access · macOS and Linux, iPhone in testing · plain Markdown, always
Click into today's note and type. The line under the caret shows its source and goes back to type when you leave it. Try - [ ] 16:30 Call Ana. On the phone, tick a line, write in the journal or ask a question, and watch the desk catch up.
Write a little every day and your own patterns start to show.
Your words stay exactly as you wrote them, and any earlier version can come back.
When you ask, an agent expands and organizes what you wrote, and your phone's copy travels encrypted.
No feed, no ads, and nothing you write is mined to sell you things.
Why it exists
People build this by hand: a vault of plain-text notes, a fast editor, an AI that reads the week and helps close it. It works, and it never transfers, because it's held together by conventions only its author understands.
The ones you can install have the opposite problem. They arrive finished: someone else's folder names, someone else's rituals, someone else's idea of what a good week looks like. You adapt to the tool, and it never adapts back.
Thock is neither, because there is nothing in it that isn't a file. The rituals, the folder structure, the templates, the theme, the font, the keybindings all sit in your vault in plain text. Ask your agent for a new Routine, a shorter weekly review, a quieter colour scheme, and it edits those files the way it would edit any others. Nothing is compiled in. Nothing is hidden from it.
# Daily Closure · what you wrote stays exactly as you wrote itOn your phone
The iPhone companion opens on today. Tick a line, add to the journal, catch an idea or a link, or ask your agent something on the walk home. It reads the same notebook the desk does, so there is nothing to set up and nothing to export.
It writes in a few small, safe places, and only by adding: a line under today's journal, a note in the inbox, a task in Soon. Deciding where things go waits for the desk.
Routines
A Routine is one life-domain, packaged: its folders, templates, quick links and rituals. Enable the ones you want; ignore the rest. Each is defined by a readable file in your vault, so your own agent can author a new one from scratch.
Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week. One keystroke each, filenames resolved for you. Wrap rituals read the day's tasks and commits and append an honest closure. A week review gathers it all every Friday.
wrap today · week review · open today
A plain backlog.md with Soon, Someday, and a dated Completed history. When you
wrap a day, unfinished tasks are offered a place there; you confirm all, none, or some. Checking
one off records it in today's note.
soon ↔ someday · categories · complete with a keystroke
The right rail follows what you're reading. On a daily note it renders your task list as time blocks, calendar-style. Connect Google Calendar and the day's events appear inside the note itself, as ordinary checklist lines you can edit.
read-only toward Google · times corrected, your edits never touched
A folder anything can drop a note into: a link shared from your phone, an email you label, a file dragged in. A triage ritual proposes a destination for each item and files only what you confirm. Capture is dumb and instant; deciding happens where you think.
phone share sheet · email label · plain files in a folder
Every ritual is an inspectable Markdown file with a plain-language description and declared scopes: what it reads, what it writes, and whether it appends or edits. Trust comes from being able to open the thing and read it.
open it · edit it · or have your agent rewrite it
The editor
Thock inherits its editing core from Zed: native, instant, and happy in a ten-thousand-file folder. The code-editor chrome is gone: no diagnostics, no debugger, no source-control pane. What's left is a writing instrument.
Markdown that reads like a page. You tried it at the top of this page. While your cursor is elsewhere, heading markers and link syntax fold away, checkboxes draw as checkboxes, and wikilinks are visibly links. The line you're editing always shows its exact source. The file on disk never changes.
Keyboard, everywhere. Every panel is fully operable without the mouse: arrows or vim motions, your choice. Every action has a name and a binding. This page works the same way: press ?.
Your vault
A Thock vault is a normal folder of Markdown, which means the one you already have probably is
one. No import, no conversion, no migration. [[wikilinks]] resolve, your folder
structure is respected, and everything Thock adds is a readable file sitting beside your notes.
Open the same folder in your current tools whenever you like. Nothing breaks, because nothing changed shape.
Who it's for
Early access
Thock is in early access. Leave an email and you'll get a download link as testing slots open, plus a note when things meaningfully change. Nothing else.
Already have an invite code? Download Thock.
Free while in early access · macOS and Linux · bring your own LLM key · your vault never leaves your machine
Your address is kept for this list and nothing else; reply to any note to be taken off it. How Thock handles your data.
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