Rowboat

Rowboat is a desktop AI coworker with memory — closer to an agentic operating surface than a wiki. It's Apache-2.0 licensed, local-first, and built with TypeScript, Python, and a Swift desktop shell. Beyond notes, it bundles an email client, a meeting note-taker, a built-in isolated browser, a "Code Mode" for Claude Code/Codex, and a living knowledge graph.

Rowboat distills email, meeting transcripts, Slack messages, and assistant chats into plain-Markdown notes that auto-link to each other, Obsidian-style. People, companies, projects, and topics become nodes in a live knowledge graph that updates as you work. Crucially, the notes are files on your disk — readable, portable, and editable by you rather than locked inside a model.

Yes — Rowboat is local-first by design: everything runs on your machine and your data never leaves it. It supports local models via Ollama or LM Studio as well as hosted models with your own API key, and you can swap models without losing data. Optional integrations like Deepgram (voice input) and ElevenLabs (voice output) are configured via simple JSON files in ~/.rowboat/config/.

It includes a local meeting note-taker that captures mic and speaker audio directly (no bot joins the call) and produces a live transcript plus a Markdown summary. Background agents fire on events (new email, meeting ended) or schedules and can search the web, drive the built-in browser, and write code via Claude Code or Codex. You can also describe a personal app — a CRM, a runway tracker — and Rowboat's copilot will build and maintain a small web app fed by your data and agents.