Brain
Notes, mail and tasks on a folder of Markdown files
Details
- External ID
- 1257476
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- 5-Minute Brain Dump
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Notes, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Notes as Markdown files on your own server, committed to git on every save. Mail and tasks in the same window. An MCP server lets Claude read, write, sort and send for you, with every action logged. MIT, one command to install.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- markdown-based local client for notes, mail, and tasks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight local-first markdown note/task app integrated with Git commands, basic IMAP/SMTP handling, and an Model Context Protocol (MCP) server interface.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 181 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #110 of 182 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- inkwell - Write without distraction. · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Quick Write · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Modotti · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MdNote · ph · 2026-09-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Flotnote · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes · hn · 2026-01-09 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MarkPress · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- OpenMarkdown · ph · 2026-07-18 · 188 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Real estate yet.