MojoPad
A Digital Playground For The Mind
MojoPad is the home for everything in your head — notes, research, journals, even whole books you’ve imported. Write it down and it links itself, no folders or filing required, into one connected web that’s alive as a graph. Clip the web whole, think in space on a canvas, keep a daily journal, and ask questions of it all — answered by on-device AI that never leaves your Mac. Built for anyone with a mind worth keeping, and private by design: your thinking lives entirely on your machine, yours for one payment.
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See it in action
A sixty-second tour — linking, search, the graph, and on-device AI, all on your Mac. There’s more below: capture, the canvas, the journal, and memory.
It links itself
Every page name becomes a live link wherever you type it. Select any phrase, press ⌘L, and a page exists. A connected web of pages assembles itself while you write — no folders, no filing.
Search that understands
Results as you type, quotes and wildcards, plus semantic search that finds pages related by meaning — even when no words match.
Nothing is ever stuck
Export to PDF, EPUB, HTML, Word, or plain text — or publish a static site with RSS. A document is plain files you can read without MojoPad at all.
Real encryption
Lock a single page or the whole document with AES-256. Auto-relock after idle. Nothing readable touches disk.
Safety nets everywhere
Automatic backups, per-page version history, a trash that waits 30 days, and an Undo toast when you delete. Relax — it's recoverable.
See your knowledge as a graph
Every page is a node and every link an edge — your thinking space becomes a living map you can explore and rearrange, not just a list of files.
Bring the outside world in — losslessly
Reading and watching is half of thinking. MojoPad pulls the good stuff in and leaves the noise behind — then it's yours to link, tag, search, and question.
Clip the web, whole
Save an article and get the article — real tables, figures, full-resolution images, the byline — not the ad-wreckage around it. From inside MojoPad, or with the Clip to MojoPad button in Chrome.
Talk to your videos
Drop in a YouTube, Vimeo, or TED link and pull a searchable, timestamped transcript onto the page. Every timestamp jumps back to the moment — and your on-device AI can read it too.
Drag anything in
Files, images, PDFs, and whole ePub books land as pages. Import a 300-page book and it becomes part of your thinking — linkable, searchable, and answerable.
Think in space — the Canvas
Some ideas don't want to be a list. Open a canvas and your pages become movable cards you arrange, connect, and edit right where they sit — a spatial board that's still made of real, linked pages.
Arrange, don't file
Spread pages across the board, drop a sticky for a loose thought, and edit any card in place without opening it. The layout is the thinking.
Arrows that become real
Sketch an arrow between two cards to think out loud. When it turns out true, one click makes it real — and it shows up in your graph from then on.
Kanban on the board
Drop a kanban board onto a canvas and drag cards from To Do to Done — a task pipeline in the same space as the notes it's about, no second app.
It thinks with you — all on your Mac
MojoPad's AI runs entirely on your machine through Ollama. Ask a question and get a grounded answer with clickable sources from your own pages — or question a whole imported book. Synthesize a brand-new note that weaves several pages together, every claim traced to its source. Bring in a Persona — a devil's advocate, a plain-English explainer — to push on your thinking. Select any word and Explain it in context.
No accounts. No API keys. No tokens. No page content ever leaves your machine.
Your days, one page — the Journal
Every day you've written on flows together, newest first. Write into today; glance up at yesterday. Each day is a full page that links, tags, and exports like any other.
Write into today
⌘T drops you into today's note at the top of the stream. Keep scrolling to walk back through your week without opening a single page.
Jump to any day
A calendar opens beside the writing column — every day with notes is dotted. And "on this day" shows what you wrote a month or a year ago.
Nothing falls through
Unfinished to-dos carry forward to today on their own, so an open loop from Tuesday is still in front of you on Friday.
It helps you remember
Notes you never revisit quietly fade. MojoPad fights that two ways — deliberately, and in the background — and, like everything else, entirely on your Mac.
Flashcards that live in your pages
Turn any sentence into a card in a keystroke — it stays right inside the page it came from. Your local AI can draft a set of cards from a page, and check your typed answer on meaning, not an exact match.
Scheduled to stick
Cards come back on FSRS — the modern spaced-repetition algorithm behind today's Anki — showing each one just before you'd forget it. A few minutes when the chip appears is the whole habit.
Rediscover & the Undertow
In the background, MojoPad threads you back to forgotten notes worth seeing again — surfaced by how faded they are and how close they sit to what you're writing now.
A workspace that gets out of your way
Simple on the surface, with the power a keystroke away. Click any shot to see it full size.
Palettes
The side panel opens to a calm Context view of the page you're on — its connections, the notes your AI finds related, and its details. Backlinks, tags, properties and more are a tab, or a keystroke, away.
Outline
A live outline of the current page — click any heading to jump straight there, and drag the panel's edge to the width you like.
Tabs
Keep several pages open at once and flip between them — handy when you're weaving an idea across your pages without losing your place.
Coming from VoodooPad?
One menu item imports your whole .vpdoc — rich text with its images and diagrams, web archives (faithful snapshots or cleaned-up editable pages), PDFs, and bookmarks. Links reconnect themselves by name the moment the pages exist.
There's even a Voodoo theme, light and dark, if you miss the old neighborhood.
Local-first, and we mean it
A MojoPad document is a folder of plain JSON and your original files, sitting wherever you put it — Dropbox, iCloud Drive, an external drive. No sync service, no subscription, no telemetry, no analytics. The app phones home for exactly one thing: a version check against a static file, and you can turn that off. Read the entire privacy policy — it fits on a postcard.
What people are saying
Real notes from people who use MojoPad. Got your own? Share a review →
Great for managing a large collection of notes and seeing the connections between them without needing to use markdown. It's a true desktop wiki. The Ollama integration works very well, too. The developer has been really helpful when question came up as I tried out the app. Thank you!
First review as a check.
Try it free for 14 days
Full-featured trial — no signup, no email, no card. Then one payment and it's yours forever. No subscription. The AI runs on your Mac.
Universal — Apple silicon & Intel · macOS 12 (Monterey) or later · one license covers 2 Macs
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