Zorite

A local-first daily journal with a Word-like typing experience. Linked notes, embedded PDFs, freeform whiteboards, and search across everything — no cloud, no account.

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What it is

Zorite is a daily journal for your desktop. It works like Logseq — every day is a page, notes link to each other, and everything is searchable — but you type into it like a Word document, not an outliner. Each line is just editable Markdown: click in to edit the raw text, click away and it re-renders.

Your notes are Markdown rows in a local SQLite database; images and PDFs live beside it as files. There’s no cloud and no account — everything stays on your machine. Built in Rust with gpui (Zed’s GPU-accelerated UI framework), it stays immediate even with tens of thousands of pages.

Zorite — a linked note with sub-pages and backlinks, the Favorites and Whiteboards sidebar, and multiple open tabs

What you get

Journal & pages

An infinite, reverse-chronological feed of days. [[wiki-links]], #tags, and backlinks; Foo::Bar namespaces and sub-pages; a / command palette and templates. Journal & pages.

Whiteboards

A freeform infinite canvas alongside the text journal — pen, shapes, text, images, and page-card embeds, with reusable templates. Whiteboards.

PDF viewer

Link or drop a PDF to open it in a page-virtualized viewer: zoom, a TOC, drag-to-highlight markup, and password-protected files. PDF & images.

Full-text search

A trigram FTS5 index over titles and content, with type-aware results for pages, PDFs, images, and whiteboards. Search.

Import from Logseq

Bring in a Logseq graph — pages, journals, assets, namespaces, tasks, aliases, whiteboards, and favorites. Import from Logseq.

Cross-platform

macOS, Windows, and Linux from a single Rust binary. GPU-accelerated, native title-bar treatment per platform. Requirements.

Get started

Install

Homebrew, winget, Scoop, and direct downloads. Package managers land with the first stable release; betas are on the Releases page. Install instructions.

Write your journal

Click into today, type Markdown, link pages with [[…]], and let backlinks build themselves. Journal & pages.

Annotate PDFs

Drop a PDF onto a note, then drag to highlight and jump between your note and the page. PDF & images.

Make it yours

Pick a built-in theme, choose Light / Dark / Auto, or drop in a custom .json theme. Themes.