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Seed
A Procestra app

For writers, makers, and anyone with ideas to tend.

Where ideas grow
until they're ripe.

A local-first notebook for the half-formed. Type to find any note instantly, or press return to plant a new one. Tend a note and it grows and takes root; leave one untouched and it quietly wilts. A glance tells you what's thriving and what's drifting away.

Get Seed $19 · one-time purchase. Mac only.
Notarized by Apple Local-first, stays on your Mac One-time purchase, no subscription
The Seed garden: notes tagged by life stage, from Sprout to Dormant, with a search-first capture bar at the top.
Ideas that grow

Every note sorts itself into a living stage based on how you tend it. The color shifts as you work, so a glance across the garden tells you what's thriving and what needs you.

SproutJust planted. A fresh thought, still finding its shape.
GrowingYou keep coming back to it. The idea is gaining weight.
RootedEstablished. Something you've shaped and rely on.
WiltingUntouched for a while. Drifting, but not gone.
DormantLong quiet. Still here for when you return to it.
Plain text, your folder

Your notes are plain-text files, either .txt or .md, in a garden folder you choose. Open them in any editor, search them with any tool, sync them however you like. Local-first, no account, nothing leaves your Mac.

And when an idea is ready to travel, export a single note or several merged together as TXT, Markdown, PDF, or Word.

Works with Espalier

Some ideas are ready to become something. When a cluster of seeds wants structure, Transplant sends a note, or a whole multi-selection, straight onto an Espalier board as cards.

Capture loosely here; arrange it into shape there. Two halves of one motion: ideas begin in Seed and grow up in Espalier.

Meet Espalier →

Available now

Seed is out. Plant the first thing on your mind.

Get Seed $19 · one-time purchase. Mac only.
Notarized by Apple Local-first, stays on your Mac One-time purchase, no subscription