Notes from the playground.
What we're building, what we're learning, and where AI playgrounds go next.
More from the team
Engineering deep-dives, product notes, and field reports from running agents in the wild.
How the memory graph works
Every conversation indexed, linked, and searchable. A look under the hood at the structure that keeps your agent oriented over months.
Why Froots is model-agnostic by default
Locking yourself into one model ages badly. We let you swap brains per task — here's the architecture that makes it boring to do.
Designing the Skills library
Capabilities as apps you toggle on. How we kept the model honest about what it can and can't do at any given moment.
Routines and the heartbeat loop
Scheduled agent runs sound boring until you let one wake up every morning and tee up your day. Here's how heartbeat picks what matters.
Going local-first with Ollama
Run a real agent fully offline on a laptop. What works, what doesn't, and the trade-offs you actually feel.
Best Obsidian alternatives in 2026: AI-native, local-first, open-source
Looking for an Obsidian alternative with built-in AI, sync, or open-source guarantees? Here are the seven best options in 2026 — with honest tradeoffs, not affiliate fluff. Includes which ones keep your vault portable and which ones lock you in.
Froots 0.1 Beta — the first public build
Froots is in public beta. A local-first desktop workspace with a markdown editor, a flexible vault, and an agent layer built into the app — honest about what's shipping today and what's still ahead.
One app instead of six: replacing Notion, Obsidian, n8n, Zapier, OpenClaw, and Hermes with Froots
Six apps for notes, knowledge, automations, and agents is five too many. Here's the honest case for collapsing all of them into one local-first workspace — and three ways to adopt it that don't require ripping out what you already have.