I’ve kept notes for more than fifteen years. They’re my memory, my second brain, my life’s scratch pad. And for most of that time, the tool I trusted with them quietly stopped deserving that trust.
Evernote was my home. Then it got slow. It got sold. It got bloated with features nobody asked for while the basics decayed. Sync started breaking. Prices kept rising. Performance kept falling. In early 2026 I exported everything and went looking for a modern replacement.
I couldn’t find one. So I started building it.
AI-native from day one
Every note app you’ve tried had AI bolted on later. Summaries as a feature. Chat as a feature. Search as a feature. Individually useful, but the underlying data model still assumes your notes are dead text sitting in folders.
If you redesign note-taking knowing a language model is part of the system from line one, something different becomes possible. Your notes stop being passive storage and start compounding. Entities get linked automatically. Gaps get surfaced. Contradictions get flagged. A meeting note about a client connects itself to last month’s call and last year’s contract, without you lifting a finger. That’s our Knowledge Engine. It’s only possible because we built the foundations for it, not around it.
This is what “AI-native” means to me. Not features. Architecture.
A team of three
We’re three people. No investors. No PR team. No board to answer to. Just three people who take notes, who’ve been burned by software we trusted, and who decided to build the tool we wanted to exist.
Being small is a feature. When you email us, a human who can change the code reads it. When something breaks, we fix it the same week. When you request something and it makes sense, it ships. No committee, no roadmap theater, no PM telling you it’s in the backlog.
What we believe
Your notes are yours. They should load instantly. They should work offline. They should sync cleanly across every device you own. They should never become someone else’s ad inventory or training data you didn’t consent to.
We give your first year free because trust isn’t a launch promo. It’s earned one note at a time. After that, Pro is a fair price for software that respects you. If we ever start acting like the companies that pushed us to build this, please email me and say so.
What’s next
Better offline. Better collaboration. Better Knowledge Engine. More integrations. More platforms. A web clipper that doesn’t suck. A mobile app you actually want to use.
If you’re reading this, you’re part of the early wave of people using Cimanote. Tell us what’s broken. Tell us what’s missing. Tell us what you love. We read everything.
Thank you for trusting us with your thinking.
Blagoja