A private, connected archive for your Mac

Your recordings and notes.
Connected, on your Mac.

Bring recordings, handwritten pages and your own writing into one searchable archive. Find a passage, check its source, and build a review or draft with links to the notes behind it. Local by default, with optional cloud processing.

Keep the devices you like, or start with files and your Mac's recorder. See how it works →

$49 once. Planned price. No SageArchive subscription.

macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon · in private testing

The SageArchive window: a sidebar of sources and tags, every note listed and grouped by when it was captured, and beside it the day's overview naming what arrived and how long each piece runs. — One window over everything: recordings, typed drafts and handwritten pages in one list, grouped by when you captured them, on one Mac.

Who it's for

For work that starts with notes.

SageArchive is for people who return to what they capture: to write, review, explain a decision or recover a detail. Bring selected material from different sources together without changing how you take notes.

Writers and editors

Build a manuscript review from several notes and interviews. Keep your comments beside linked sources and timed quotations.

Researchers and interviewers

Search across spoken and handwritten material, then return to the recording or page to check the passage you plan to use.

Consultants and field professionals

Bring meeting recordings and site notes into one project. Find the decision, date or technical identifier when you need it again.

What it does

Find it. Check it. Build on it.

Search across the things you captured

Find words, near matches or related ideas across recordings, recognized handwriting and your writing. Meaning search uses a local model; text search remains available without it. Filter the library to narrow what you are looking through.

Check the source behind an answer

Ask a question about your notes and follow its citations back to retrieved passages. Where timing or page coordinates are available, open the supporting audio or page. Generated answers can be wrong; the original material stays within reach.

Connect several notes in one place

Write a review that links to multiple notes. Add quotations from different timed transcripts, with your own comments between them. Linked from shows incoming note links; Referenced by shows the notes quoting a timed source.

Write and organize your own work

Create rich-text notes with autosave, headings, lists and links. File material in folders, add tags and star what matters. Request meeting minutes or an action-item summary, or propose a change to your writing, then review the result.

Capture the next thought

Open Quick Add to type a thought, drop a file or paste a podcast link. Record your microphone, Mac audio or both with the required permissions. Short recordings can become Clips; an optional global shortcut brings capture within reach from another app.

Listen, export and keep a copy

Turn note text into saved narration. Export Markdown, plain text or JSON, and SRT/VTT when transcript timings exist. Print saved summaries and back up the complete archive with its original media. See the available formats.

Searching a SageArchive library for the insurance figure: twenty-eight matches across seventeen notes, each shown as the sentence it appeared in, with the timestamp it was said at or the page it was written on. — Two words, twenty-eight matches across the whole archive — recordings and handwritten pages side by side, each one the sentence it appeared in and the moment or the page it came from.

From capture to your own writing

One review. Many references. A way back to each source.

A useful note can connect several ideas. Add ordinary links to different notes, or select passages from timed transcripts and insert them as quotations. Each quote keeps its saved words, source and time range. Follow it back when you need to hear the context again.

1. Collect the material

For example, bring an interview recording, a handwritten notebook and an imported manuscript PDF into your archive.

2. Write the review

Create one note for your comments. Link to the manuscript and notebook, then add timed quotes from interviews wherever they support a point. A note can contain several references.

3. Follow the connections

Open the linked notes or replay a quote's stored passage. Use Linked from for incoming note links and Referenced by for the notes quoting a timed source.

Re-converting a recording does not rewrite a saved quote. Its text stays as you captured it, with a changed-source indication when applicable. Renaming a source keeps its link; an unavailable source is identified. Ordinary links open notes, while timed quotes use stored segment ranges. Exact links to untimed manuscript paragraphs or page regions are not supported.

Follow the multi-reference review walkthrough →

Speed

Process a backlog on your own Mac.

Local speech models use your Mac to turn saved audio into searchable text. Speed depends on your Mac, model, recording and other work running at the same time. Start with a short recording before a large import.

Local processing has no per-minute SageArchive charge. Choose a cloud provider instead and its charges and terms apply. Review important passages against the original audio before quoting or relying on them.

A recording opened in SageArchive, written out as a transcript with a timestamp against every paragraph, the waveform and transport along the bottom, and a line above the text reading “Nothing in this note has left this Mac.” — Talking, written down with a timestamp on every paragraph. Click one and the audio goes there — and the line above the transcript says where the words were made.

Handwriting

Your handwriting, actually searchable.

Pages from a reMarkable are read, and the words are lined back up with the place on the page they were written. So when an answer comes from something you scrawled in a margin eighteen months ago, it can show you the margin.

Recognition and page placement can be imperfect. When a recognized line has page coordinates, SageArchive can highlight that area. A line without coordinates can still be searched or cited, without a guessed box. Check the original page when precision matters.

A handwritten page shown beside the words read off it. Boxes are drawn on the scan around the lines assigned page coordinates, and a line underneath reports how many of the lines on the page were placed. — A handwritten page, next to the words read from it — with a box drawn on the scan around each line that was located, and a count underneath of how many were.

Privacy

Keep your archive local. Choose what you send.

Your saved archive lives on your Mac, without a SageArchive account or an archive hosted by us. Local transcription, handwriting recognition and meaning search use installed models; local answering also requires Apple Intelligence availability. Optional cloud processing is controlled by source and purpose. Vendor account sync still uses the vendor's service.

Review the processing history in the app and the service choices in Settings.

Review recorded cloud processing

Choose a company to see retained notes with recorded processing by that provider. This history is separate from today's permission switches. It is attached to notes that remain in the archive; it is not a permanent audit log or a record of everything in the vendor's own account.

Control what stays in the archive

Exclude an imported note to remove it from the archive and future syncs of that source. Find it in Excluded and choose Allow Again to let a later sync bring it back. Exclusion cannot undo processing that already happened or remove the vendor's own copy.

Keep service keys in Keychain

Saved API keys live in the macOS Keychain. Settings can show whether one is present but cannot reveal its stored value. Keep keys and vendor session text private, including when asking for help; support does not need your credentials.

The privacy page, in full →

What it reads

Start with the sources you already use.

Plaud Note

Plaud cloud

Plaud Note Pro

Plaud cloud

HiDock

HiNotes cloud · P1 USB

reMarkable

Cloud or direct USB/Wi-Fi SSH

inq pen

iPhone Bluetooth → cloud

Files and watched folders

Supported audio, PDFs and text

The built-in recorder

Your microphone, or whatever is playing on the Mac

A podcast link

Paste the URL, keep the episode

More Devices

Coming Soon

Inq notebooks arrive through the iPhone app and inq cloud; plugging in the pen is not a USB import. Plaud uses its cloud account. HiNotes cloud and direct HiDock P1 USB are separate routes, and the same recording can remain separate notes when imported through both.

Each source has its own sync status. Queue shows failures by operation, so you can retry the connection, download or conversion that needs attention. Already saved notes remain readable when a device is disconnected. Setup depends on the device, firmware and account; check your source's requirements first.

Have a device that is not listed? Future additions are being considered; specific models and dates are not promised. You may be able to start with a supported file export. To help us understand your workflow, tell us what it is.

Private testing

Use the notes. Keep the sources.

Current private builds import recordings and handwritten notebooks, search saved text, create local answers, and keep authored notes with links and timed quotations. Notes remain readable when a source is disconnected. Optional cloud processing needs your permission.

There is no public app download yet. Device models, account recovery, capture routes and accessibility are still being exercised. A connection check is not a promise that every notebook or firmware is supported.

Read the user guide

Bring your next idea back to its source.

SageArchive is in testing now. Leave your email and we will tell you when it ships. See our privacy notice for how the waitlist and occasional version updates are handled.