Show HN: Captain's Log, a Mac app for thinking out loud
Thinking out loud helps me understand things. So I built Captain’s Log, a Mac app that turns my ramblings into cleaned-up and categorized Markdown files I can use in Obsidian. Everything runs locally, completely private. I built it just for me, but it’s now free and open source for anyone to use or build upon.
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Source account: Thinking out loud helps me understand things. So I built Captain’s Log, a Mac app that turns my ramblings into cleaned-up and categorized Markdown files I can use in Obsidian. Everything runs locally, completely private. I built it just for me, but it’s now free and open source for anyone to use or build upon.
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