Manifesto
Notion showed the world that notes, docs and databases belong together. We think they also belong on your own devices: open, fast, encrypted, and ready for agents that work for you without working behind your back.
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Your workspace lives on your devices and opens instantly, even on a plane. Nothing gets deleted behind your back. Based Cloud runs in the EU and keeps your devices in sync without being able to read a word. Your data survives any company, including ours.
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Version history, offline access and backups are basic rights for your own writing. Nobody should pay extra to undo a mistake from last month.
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AI is welcome here, on your terms. Off by default, on a leash you choose, and every line it writes is marked with where it came from.
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You already pay for a model. Based connects to it instead of selling you a second one, and never hides which model did what.
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Made in Vienna. MIT licensed, clean-room from public documentation, with the roadmap, the backlog and every night shift log in public.
The team
Based is built by Elija in Vienna, together with the same kind of agents Based will give you. An architect agent plans with him during the day. A night shift picks up the backlog, writes the code, runs the tests and leaves a log by morning. Nothing merges unless the tests are green, and every line is in the public repo.
We use what we build. If an agent workflow is annoying, we notice first.
Elija
Human. Decides what Based is. Tests every screen on his Mac.
Architect agent
Plans with Elija, writes specs and decisions into the backlog.
Night shift
Builds backlog items marked ready, runs the tests, merges only when green.
Golden fixtures
The referee. Behaviour must match the prototype before anything ships.
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Notion features tracked one by one against the public help pages
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already working in the Swift prototype
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golden fixture suites that keep behaviour identical through the rewrite
MIT
licence. Fork it, read it, audit it.
From the public repo: features.csv, build-log.md, fixtures/.
Roadmap
A full rewrite onto one TypeScript core that runs everywhere: Mac, web, iPhone, Windows, Linux and Android. Each phase ships only when its tests prove it.
Open the roadmap and vote →Phase 0, done
Foundation
Monorepo, types, golden fixtures, CI
Phase 1, done
Core
Sync, formulas, queries, search. Every fixture green
Phase 2, now
Web client
Shell, editor, databases, import/export
Phase 3, next
Cloud and agents
Encrypted Based Cloud, MCP, main agent, mission control
Phase 4, next
Mac app
Tauri desktop with one-click updates
Phase 5, next
Mobile
iPhone, iPad and Android on the same core
Phase 6, next
Switch-over
Parity check, migration assistant
Phase 7, next
Beyond Notion
Tabs, supertags, whiteboard, PDF notes, automations
Join the beta, star the repo, or open an issue. All three make Based better.
Manifesto
Notion showed the world that notes, docs and databases belong together. We think they also belong on your own devices: open, fast, encrypted, and ready for agents that work for you without working behind your back.
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The team
Based is built by Elija in Vienna, together with the same kind of agents Based will give you. An architect agent plans with him during the day. A night shift picks up the backlog, writes the code, runs the tests and leaves a log by morning. Nothing merges unless the tests are green, and every line is in the public repo.
We use what we build. If an agent workflow is annoying, we notice first.
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From the public repo: features.csv, build-log.md, fixtures/.
Roadmap
A full rewrite onto one TypeScript core that runs everywhere: Mac, web, iPhone, Windows, Linux and Android. Each phase ships only when its tests prove it.
Open the roadmap and vote →Phase {{p.n}}, {{p.state}}
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Join the beta, star the repo, or open an issue. All three make Based better.