Notes that are actually yours.

Notes that are actually yours. Plain files, in your own cloud.

Your vault is a folder of markdown files in cloud storage scoped to your account. That sounds like a small thing. It is not.

Most AI products store your content in opaque databases you cannot read without their UI. Your notes are theirs as much as they are yours — if the company pivots, gets acquired, or goes away, your data goes with it. The vault flips this. Every note is a .md file you could open in TextEdit, Notion, Obsidian or VS Code. Yours, portable, exportable, unkillable.

And because it is just files, the vault works equally well whether you treat it as a passive output (Presence writes notes for you), an active workspace (you write notes yourself and let it read them), or both at once.

Presence files things automatically as your work unfolds. The default structure is sensible without being rigid:

You can rearrange any of this. Folder names are not magic. If you want everything in one folder, Presence will respect that.

You almost never have to ask Presence to write a vault file. It just does it, when something is worth keeping:

• You have a long conversation about a project. It writes up a summary and saves it.
• You mention a new person. It creates a reference file.
• You read a thread. It saves a brief.
• You make a decision out loud. It records what you chose and why.

And you can ask explicitly — "save that as a reference doc" or "start a new project file called Meridian" — at any time.

Because the vault is just markdown, you can clone it locally and open it in Obsidian for a beautiful editing experience: graph view, backlinks, wikilinks, the works. Changes you make locally sync back, and changes Presence makes appear in your editor when you sync. It works both ways.

You can use any other markdown editor too — VS Code, iA Writer, Typora, plain TextEdit. The files are the files.

The vault is not just storage — it is built to be lived in:

• Full-text search. Find any note by what is inside it, not just its title, straight from the explorer.
• Version history. Every edit — yours or Presence's — is kept. Look back through a document's history and restore an earlier version in a tap.
• Rich previews. Open a PDF, a spreadsheet, a Word doc or an image right in the app, alongside your markdown notes — no download needed.
• Images inline. Drop a screenshot into a note and it embeds; saved attachments keep their original file, made searchable too.

• Browse the entire vault inside the app. Tree view on the left, file viewer on the right.
• Edit any file inline. Changes save instantly and the next conversation reads the updated version.
• Share any document — a one-tap public link with a typeset reader view and social preview, or a private share with named people who can read, comment, or edit alongside you.
• Export everything as a zip of markdown files, any time — and the export still works after you cancel.