Socratus
What is Socratus?
Socratus is a local-first Note-taking application for capturing, organizing, and retrieving notes, research, code, and structured information. The application stores notes as portable plain-text and Markdown files and supports offline work.
Key Capabilities
- Semantic retrieval: Socratus uses meaning-based retrieval to search across notes and surface related information.
- Knowledge graph: An interactive knowledge graph displays relationships among notes and concepts.
- AI chat: Users can ask questions through an AI chat interface grounded in their documents.
- Writing workspace: The application provides a focused workspace for writing, organizing drafts, and connecting research.
- In-note code execution: Users can run Python code directly in notes and keep code, outputs, and written analysis together.
- Structured information: Smart tables support calculations, charts, and data-rich notes.
- MCP integration: Socratus can provide note content as context for compatible AI assistants and external large-language-model workflows.
- File protection: Optional QEncrypt integration provides file-level encryption, protected-file indicators, and in-application encrypt and decrypt actions.
Audience & Use Cases
- Audience: Writers, developers, researchers, students, founders, and other knowledge workers.
- Use Case: Individuals can maintain a local knowledge base for research, writing, planning, coding, and long-term personal information management.