# reorproject/reor

Private & local AI personal knowledge management app for high entropy people.

Repository: https://github.com/reorproject/reor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/reor
Homepage: https://reorproject.org
Language: JavaScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ai, lancedb, llama, llamacpp, local-first, markdown, note-taking, pkm, vector-database, rag, second-brain, ollama
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-05-13T21:28:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 21, release rhythm 40, longevity 72
- inputs: {"age_days": 1011, "days_push": 477, "days_rel": 515, "gap_med": 11, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8568, forks 531 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.584803+00:00)

## What it is
Reor is a local-first, AI-powered desktop note-taking app that automatically links related notes, answers questions over your notes via RAG, and provides semantic search. All notes are stored as markdown locally, with LLMs and embedding models running on-device through Ollama, Transformers.js, and LanceDB.

## Use cases
- take private notes with automatic AI linking between related ideas
- ask questions about my own notes with a local LLM
- semantically search my personal knowledge base without the cloud
- run a second brain app that works fully offline
- import markdown notes and get AI-powered connections
- chat with my notes using Ollama models locally

## When to choose
- you want a private, local-first alternative to cloud AI note apps like Notion AI
- you already use markdown/Obsidian-style notes and want built-in RAG and semantic search
- you can run local models via Ollama on your machine

## When to avoid
- you need cloud sync and multi-device collaboration out of the box
- your hardware is too weak to run local LLMs and embedding models
- you need a web-based or mobile note-taking app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: rag, vector-database, llm-inference, search-engine, markdown, editor
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models, self-hosted
- platform: windows
- tags: note-taking, pkm, local-first, second-brain, ollama, semantic-search, electron-app, privacy, natural-language-processing, retrieval-augmented-generation, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- reorproject/reor (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.584803+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:26:17.245062+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/reorproject/reor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.584803+00:00, sha 83628af03109)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.