Verse

Made for AI to write inEvery page is a plain file with a published spec. No API to learn, no export step. If an AI can read and write a file, it can work in Verse.

Made for people tooA real block editor on top of the same files: slash commands, toggles, databases and a grid you arrange by dragging.

Works beside what you useVerse is not here to replace your other tools. Keep Notion, Obsidian or anything else, and let Verse be the place your AIs write to.

A new way to take notes with AI

AI does the work. You stay in charge.

Most tools make you choose: keep AI out of your notes, or let it loose and hope. Verse is built around a loop in between, so AI can do real work in your notes and you never lose track of what it touched.

SendOne button, or one shortcut, hands any page to any AI as clean context.

DraftThe AI writes in its own lane. Every block it adds or changes is marked with its name.

ReviewSee the changes as a diff on the page. Accept, reject or edit each one.

Keep or rewindEverything is checkpointed first, so any AI session undoes in one click.

Send to AI Planned

One button. Any AI.

Press one button, or one keyboard shortcut, and the page you are on is packaged as clean context and on its way to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or whatever you use. No copy and paste, no export, no reformatting.

Concept

Projects/Launch planSend to AI ⌘⇧A

Launch plan

What has to be true before the waitlist opens.

Before launch

Brand book, first edition

Landing page

Record the demo

What to send

This page

Page and subpages6 pages

Selected blocks

Where to

Claudeopen with context

ChatGPT

Claude Codefile path

Copy as Markdown

1,240 tokens · private blocks left out

Send

One shortcutPlanned

Same action from the keyboard, from the menu bar, from Spotlight and from a widget. It sends what you are looking at, or what you have selected.

Context an AI can usePlanned

Clean Markdown with the page's properties, its path and its links, plus the pages it points to if you want them. You see the token count before it goes.

Private stays privatePlanned

Blocks and pages you mark private are left out of every send. The list of what was included is shown, so nothing leaves by surprise.

Works withClaudeChatGPTGeminiClaude CodeCursorAny app that takes Markdown

Supervision Planned

AI that cannot quietly ruin your notes.

The fear with AI in your notes is the silent rewrite you find three weeks later. Verse treats AI as an editor you supervise: it is named, it is checkpointed, it is reviewable, and it can be fenced off. Supervising it is meant to take seconds, not attention.

Concept

Projects/Launch planClaude · 3 changes

Launch plan

Claude edited this page · 2:14 pmReject allAccept all

Landing page

Claude · changed Reject · AcceptLanding page: swap the mockups for real screenshots

Claude · added Reject · AcceptWrite the privacy line for the waitlist form

Brand book, first edition

History

Claude, 3 changes2:14 pm · waiting for review

You2:02 pm · typed

Claude, 1 changeYesterday · accepted

CheckpointBefore Claude started

Restore this version

Every AI edit is signedPlanned

Each block remembers who wrote it, you or which AI, and when. Filter a whole workspace down to what an AI has touched.

Review without frictionPlanned

Changes appear as an inline diff on the page you are already reading. Accept, reject or edit one block, or accept the lot with one key.

Checkpoint before every sessionPlanned

Verse snapshots the page, or the folder, before an AI starts. Undo a whole session in one click, including a deletion.

FencesPlanned

Mark a page or folder read only, append only or off limits. A journal can be readable but never editable. An Inbox can be the only place an AI may add.

An activity log you can readPlanned

A plain Markdown file lists every change by every AI, so you can audit it in Verse, in git or in any editor.

Stops itselfPlanned

Limits on how many pages an AI may change in one session. A big or destructive change is held for your approval, not applied.

Choose how much trust each AI gets

Set it per AI and per folder. Turn it up as an AI earns it.

Read onlyIt can read what you send or allow. It cannot change anything.

SuggestIt proposes edits. Nothing is written until you accept.

Edit with reviewIt writes to the page, marked, and you review the diff. The default.

Edit freelyFor a scratch folder, with a checkpoint behind it.

Why this works in Verse

Because your notes are plain files, a checkpoint is a copy of files and an activity log is a file. Nothing in this lane depends on a server, so it works fully offline and on a folder that never leaves your Mac.

It also means supervision does not depend on the AI behaving. Verse enforces the fence and records the change itself, whichever AI is on the other end.

Private by default

Notes that never leave your device.

Verse has no cloud to trust. It opens a folder on your own machine. No account, no server, no analytics on your writing. If you never connect an AI and never turn on sync, nothing you write goes anywhere.

Local onlyToday

The folder lives on your device. The Mac app works fully offline, with no sign-in.

Sync you controlToday

Sync is a folder in your own iCloud Drive, or nothing at all. Verse runs no sync engine of its own.

Self-hostablePlanned

Put the folder on your own server, NAS or git remote and keep it in sync with the tools you already trust. The AI connection is a small service you run yourself.

AI is off until you turn it onPlanned

Nothing is shared with any AI by default. You choose which AI, which folders and what it may do.

Use a model on your own MacPlanned

Point Verse at a local model and the AI works on your notes without a byte leaving the machine.

Safe to leaveToday

Your notes are open Markdown with a published spec. Stop using Verse tomorrow and you still have every page.

The editor

A real editor for the human half.

Pages are made of blocks you can turn into anything and place on a magnetic grid. Drag a block and the rest of the page makes room. No widths to fiddle with, no layout that breaks.

A Verse page called Morning laid out as a grid: a to-do list, a quote, a ship date, a reading list and a draft, each in its own tinted box.

A real Verse page. The layout is saved in the Markdown file, and on a phone the same blocks read top to bottom.

Files

The page is the file.

Every Verse page is a Markdown file in a folder you choose. What you see on the left is exactly what is on disk on the right. Open it in Finder, in another editor, in ten years. Nothing is locked in.

~/Verse/Reading notes.md

---

favorite: true

tags: [books]

---

# Reading notes

## The Shape of Design

Design is the art of making something fit its circumstances.

- [x] Finish chapter 4

- [ ] Underline the passage on constraints

## A Pattern Language

> A place is made of the people who keep returning to it.

The same file opens inFinderTextEditVS CodeiA WriterObsidianClaude Codegit

Connect Files today MCP planned

One place every AI can write.

Because every page is a file, an AI edits Verse with the tools it already has, while the app is open, and you watch each change land on the page. Claude Code works today. Connections for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants over MCP, and a bridge to tools like Notion, are on the way.

The Launch plan page open in Verse, a checklist of what has to happen before launch.

Over MCP, Verse offerssearchread_pageappend_blockedit_blockcapturelist_today

iPhone

The same folder, in your pocket.

The iPhone app opens the same folder in your iCloud Drive, so the page you wrote on the Mac is already there. Read it, tick a box, jot a line. No sync service, no account.

The Verse home screen on iPhone: favourites and the page tree.

The Morning page on iPhone, its grid read top to bottom.

Screenshots from the iPhone simulator, iOS 27

Native, not a web viewSwiftUI and AppKit on every device. Opens instantly, scrolls like the system.

Widgets and controlsCapture, Today, Favourites and any page, on the home screen, lock screen and Control Centre.

Shortcuts and SiriEvery action is an App Intent: capture, open a page, tick a box, all hands-free.

Works offlineYour folder is on the device. A plane is just a quiet place to write.

Where it fits

Not a Notion replacement. A different job.

Notion is a great place for a team to work in the cloud. Verse is the place your notes and your AI live on your own device. Use it beside Notion or Obsidian, and let Verse be where AI writes and you stay in control.

	Verse	Notion	Obsidian	Open sourceAppFlowy, AFFiNE, Logseq
Your notes are plain files	Markdown in your folder	In Notion's cloudExport to get them out	Markdown in your vault	Depends on the toolSome use their own database or format
Block editor	Blocks, slash menu, toggles, databases	The best in class	Text editor with plugins	Blocks, rougher edges
Layout you can arrange	Magnetic grid, saved in the file	Columns	Linear pagesCanvas is a separate file type	Varies
Native Mac, iPhone, iPad	SwiftUI and AppKit	Web app in a shell	Electron and a web view	Electron, Flutter or web
Nothing leaves your device	Local folder, no account	Cloud first	Local vault	Self-host or their cloud
Claude edits it directly	Same files, live, marked as Claude's	Through Notion's API and its own AI	Files yes, live view through plugins	Through each tool's API
Sync	Your iCloud Drive, nothing else	Notion's servers	Paid Sync, or set it up yourself	Self-host or their cloud
Works offline	Always, it's a folder	Partly	Always	Mostly
If the app disappears	You still have every file	You have an export	You still have every file	You have the code

YesPartlyNoAs of October 2026, from each product's public documentation.

vs NotionSame editor feel. Your notes never leave your folder.No workspace to export from, no account to lose, no page that only loads online. And it's a real Mac app.

vs ObsidianSame promise about files. A far better editor.Blocks, databases and a layout grid out of the box, in native apps instead of Electron. Your vault opens in Verse as it is.

vs open sourceThe file format is the open part.Verse's format is a published spec of plain Markdown, so nothing depends on our code surviving. The app is free to be fast, native and polished.

What works today and what is planned?

Working today on the Mac: the block editor, the grid, plain-file storage, iCloud folder sync, no account, and an AI that edits files directly. Planned and marked as such on this page: Send to AI, supervised edits with checkpoints and review, fences, an MCP connection and self-hosting. iPhone and iPad follow the Mac.

Do I need an account?

No. Verse opens a folder. Sync is your iCloud Drive. Your email is only used to tell you when it's your turn.

Can I bring my Obsidian vault or Notion export?

An Obsidian vault is already a folder of Markdown, so Verse opens it as it is. A Notion Markdown export opens the same way.

Do my notes leave my device?

Not unless you choose. Verse opens a folder on your machine with no account and no server. Sync is your own iCloud Drive if you want it. Nothing is sent to an AI until you press Send or connect one.

Can I self-host it?

That is the plan. Your notes are already a plain folder you can keep on your own server or git remote, and the AI connection is a small service you would run yourself, so there is no Verse cloud in the middle.

Can AI delete or overwrite my notes?

The supervision lane is built to prevent that: a checkpoint before every AI session, review of every change, fences on pages you protect and limits on large changes. It is on the roadmap, and until it ships, work with an AI on a copy of your folder.

Which AIs does Send to AI work with?

The goal is any of them. Send hands over clean Markdown, so Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code and anything that accepts text can use it. Direct connections come over MCP.

What does Claude need to edit my notes?

Claude Code works with the files directly. For Claude on the web, desktop or phone, Verse offers an MCP connection. Nothing reaches Claude unless you connect it.

What does it cost?

Pricing comes with the public release. People who requested access hear it first.

Your AI's Favourite Notetaking App

Week of 5 Oct

This week

AI does the work. You stay in charge.

One button. Any AI.

Launch plan

Before launch

What to send

Where to

AI that cannot quietly ruin your notes.

Launch plan

History

Choose how much trust each AI gets

Why this works in Verse

Notes that never leave your device.

A real editor for the human half.

The page is the file.

One place every AI can write.

The same folder, in your pocket.

Not a Notion replacement. A different job.

Your AI’s favourite
notetaking app.

Your AI's Favourite Notetaking App

Week of 5 Oct

This week

AI does the work. You stay in charge.

One button. Any AI.

Launch plan

Before launch

What to send

Where to

AI that cannot quietly ruin your notes.

Launch plan

History

Choose how much trust each AI gets

Why this works in Verse

Notes that never leave your device.

A real editor for the human half.

The page is the file.

One place every AI can write.

The same folder, in your pocket.

Not a Notion replacement. A different job.

Your AI’s favouritenotetaking app.

Your AI’s favourite
notetaking app.