getting started
MoreInfo is a personal knowledge base built around a simple idea: your notes should be plain Markdown files that you own, control, and can read anywhere. No proprietary formats, no accounts, no cloud lock-in.
MoreInfo is a Markdown-native app that lives on your computer and stores everything as .md files in a folder of your choosing — your datastore. A fast SQLite cache keeps the app snappy, but it's a cache only: your Markdown files are always the source of truth. Delete the cache and rebuild it in seconds.
You get a full-featured editor, wiki-style linking between notes, task management, daily journals, inline calculations, full-text search, annotations, and widgets — all woven together from a single folder of text files.
The first pillar of MoreInfo's philosophy is that MoreInfo has no concept of lock-in. All of the data you will use and create with MI — all of it — is stored in plain-text markdown files that can be viewed, edited, version-controlled, searched, synced, etc., with any tool you may use now or in the future. MoreInfo does use SQLite for things that are better retreived from a database rather than trying to find it in plain text files on the filesystem. However, that database only holds cached information. There is nothing in that database that can't be found in the files on disk. In fact, each time MoreInfo starts, it compares what it has in the database and what it sees in its datastore, and makes appropriate changes. And, while MI is running, it is watching its datastore for changes so it can update the database in real time. You can even delete the database from the datastore entirely, and no data will actually be lost. MI will recreate the database on its next startup.
Tools come and go. Editors are a very personal preference. Different schemes for syncing files between computers work for different situations. Because MoreInfo only relies on the plain text Markdown files on disk, it is extremely tool-agnostic. That philosophy extends to MoreInfo itself — you may one day find a personal knowledgebase system that you like even better than MI. Fine. All that's left is a bunch of plain text files – and that's all your data.
The second pillar of MoreInfo's philosophy is that writing it down is the key to remembering it later. While it's a nice gift to be able to keep multiple items in your head, from full processes and checklists to tips and tricks you've learned along the way. Nicer still, though, is to get that stuff out of your head and into a system that you trust and that makes it easy to retrieve when you need it. MoreInfo strives to be that tool. It is designed around being a personal knowledge base, the font of all your knowledge. Using its files and tools, you can build up an interconnected web of journal pages and wiki entries that allow you to navigate through what you know with speed and precision, deftly finding that one piece of wisdom locked away that you need right now.