Journal
Years of entries, thoughts and experiences.
ContextRealm
Turn what you've written into what comes next.
ContextRealm connects your notes, journals, research and ideas so you can find what you've already thought, return to the original words, and create new work from them.
Your files stay on your machine. ContextRealm indexes them — it doesn't become their new home.
A Realm
A Realm for everything you've written.
A Realm is simply a folder of your files. ContextRealm makes it searchable and gives an AI agent the tools to explore it with you.
~/Realm/journal
2024-05-19
What writing remembers
Each entry I write becomes a small piece of evidence — that I was somewhere, that I thought a particular way, that a sentence was true on a Tuesday in May.
The archive is not a record of the past. It is a working surface. I come back to it the way one returns to a desk.
A search five years from now will still find this exact moment, surrounded by whatever I thought about it later.
The interesting question is not whether I will still remember the walk. It is whether the next sentence I write will be better for having written this one down.
01Your files
02Semantic search
03Agent
04New work
Core interaction
Ask your past work questions.
ContextRealm doesn't just answer from a compressed memory. It finds the relevant files so you can open them yourself — and so the agent can work from the originals.
- 01When did I first start writing about belonging?
- 02Find everything I wrote about this idea while travelling.
- 03What changed in my thinking about this project?
- 04Use these entries to draft a chapter.
- 05Turn these research notes into a video script.
How it works
Three steps.
Step 1
Bring your writing
Open an existing folder or create a Realm. Journals, notes, research, transcripts, lore, project logs — if it's writing you want to keep using, it belongs.
Step 2
Find what matters
Search by meaning, not just filenames. Ask about a topic and ContextRealm surfaces the entries, dates and passages where you actually wrote about it.
Step 3
Create from the source
Select what matters and let the agent turn it into a chapter, script, article, briefing or something entirely new — while keeping its connection to the source material.
Use cases
A Realm can hold a life, a project, or a world.
Research
Interviews, field notes and source material.
Writing
Ideas, drafts, scenes and references.
Worldbuilding
Lore, characters, places and timelines.
Projects
Decisions, plans, meeting notes and experiments.
Knowledge
Anything you've accumulated that deserves to stay useful.
Why it matters
AI should work from your knowledge, not replace it.
Most AI tools turn documents into temporary context. ContextRealm keeps the corpus itself at the center.
The file is the source of truth.
Your Realm remains ordinary files you control.
Search leads back to the original.
You can always open what the agent found.
New work stays connected to old work.
Synthesis becomes another artifact in your Realm rather than disappearing into a chat transcript.
Ownership
Your Realm belongs to you.
ContextRealm is local-first. Your Realm is a folder on your computer, not a proprietary database you need permission to leave.
Copy it. Back it up. Put it in Git. Open it with another editor. Stop using ContextRealm tomorrow and the archive is still yours.
We sell the intelligence around your files — not custody of your files.
Model freedom
Your Realm isn't married to one AI.
ContextRealm works through a model-independent layer, so your corpus can outlive whichever model happens to be best this year.
OpenAI · Anthropic · OpenRouter · Local models
Pricing
Pay for intelligence, not storage.
Two simple tiers. Local editing is always free.
Personal
For journals, personal research and regular writing.
$12/ mo
- Includes 1M AI tokens / month
- Semantic search across your Realms
- AI synthesis and agent tools
- Bring your own model key if you prefer
Studio
Most popularFor larger archives and intensive creative work.
$30/ mo
- Includes 5M AI tokens / month
- Larger synthesis jobs
- Higher monthly usage
- Everything in Personal
Your past work should keep working for you.
You already did the thinking. Don't lose it in the archive.