The workspace

Pages, docs and databases with every view you know from Notion, running on your own machine. Your data, kept forever, synced to your other devices, backed up without you thinking about it.

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Speed

Click a page. It's open.

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Q4 Planning

3 databases, 2,418 rows, read from disk

To do

Budget review

Hiring plan

Doing

Q4 OKRs

Launch page

Done

Offsite

Retro notes

Reading from disk…

Dramatised, but you know the feeling. Turn on slow motion to watch Based actually draw the page.

Databases

Not a Markdown folder. A database engine with pages in it.

There are plenty of Markdown apps. Based is about what Notion got right: structured data you can see in any shape. Filter it, relate it, roll it up, open any row as a full page. Go ahead, it's live.

Projects

8 of 8, filtered locally in <1 ms
NameStatusClientDueTasks

Six views, one source

Table, board, list, gallery, calendar, timeline. Same rows, any shape.

Relations and rollups

Link clients to projects to invoices and roll numbers up the chain.

Formulas

The formula language you know, evaluated locally and offline.

Linked views

Show a filtered slice of any database inside any page.

Pages in every row

Every row opens as a full page with blocks, sub-pages and comments.

Templates

Row templates for meetings, clients, lectures, bug reports.

Sub-items and dependencies

Planned

Nested tasks and blocked-by relations.

Automations

Planned

When a property changes, do something. Or ask an agent to.

Logs, too

Your logs are a database now.

Runs, deploys, experiments, workouts, invoices. Anything that arrives line by line lands in a database you can filter, chart and link to the page it belongs to. Agents write to it through the CLI or MCP.

Agent runs2,406 rows, live

08:42Reviewer2 citations correctedok
08:35Main agentAsked for approval: Acme pricingwaiting
08:28WriterProposal draft for Polar Studioreview
08:21CoderBudget formula fixedok
08:14Night shift7 voice notes filedok
08:07Researcher14 sources linked to Thesis ch. 2ok
08:00Main agentMorning briefing writtenok

Backups

Three copies. Zero panic.

Data loss is the thread that never leaves r/Notion. Notion's own export can't recreate a workspace, and paid backup services say a complete restore isn't possible through Notion's API. With Based you own your data: it lives in three places, nothing gets deleted behind your back, and restoring is a click.

Copy 1

On your device

Your workspace is a local database. Works offline, survives any outage.

● current

Copy 2

In your cloud

iCloud in the beta. At release, Based Cloud on EU servers, end-to-end encrypted. Lose your laptop, keep your work.

● synced 2 s ago

Copy 3

In your backup folder

Automatic snapshots to a drive or folder you choose, as a readable archive.

● last snapshot 4 min ago

Version history of Clients

every version since day one, no plan limit

Yellow ticks are agent edits. Each one can be undone on its own.

Sync and cloud

Your phone gets everything. The server gets gibberish.

The beta syncs your Apple devices through iCloud. At release, Based Cloud takes over: servers in the EU, and everything encrypted on your device before it leaves, so the server only ever stores scrambled bytes. Prefer your own hardware? Run the server yourself.

  • EU servers, end-to-end encrypted by release. iCloud in the beta.
  • Cloud agents are opt-in. They only see pages you hand them, while they work.
  • Self-host with one command, same apps.
  • Offline is the default. Every row, every formula. Sync catches up later.

Mac

Thesis: 14 sources linked

Based Cloud sees

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iPhone

Thesis: 14 sources linked

Your data, without the wait.

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