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Kurae
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Projects
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Resources
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#project/kurae2m ago

Implement Clerk auth with Google OAuth — need to handle CSP headers for clerk.accounts.dev

#resource1h ago

Deep Work — "focus is the new IQ" — schedule 4hr deep work blocks, no Slack, no email

#idea3h ago

Spaced repetition for captured insights — resurface notes at 1d, 7d, 30d intervals

AI Route suggested: move to Projects → Kurae
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Everything you need

A complete system for your knowledge

Built around Tiago Forte's CODE + PARA methodology, supercharged with AI.

Capture

Catch every thought before it disappears

Quick-capture from anywhere. Plain text, rich notes, URLs, voice recording, web clips. Zero friction between thought and record.

Quick capture
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PARA

Organise by actionability, not topic

Projects → Areas → Resources → Archive. The world's best PKM taxonomy, built right in.

Projects
Areas
Resources
Archive
AI Route

Auto-classify every note

AI reads your note and suggests the perfect PARA location. One tap to accept.

AI Distil

Surface the insight, not the noise

Progressive summarisation at the tap of a button. Bullet points, key ideas, actionable takeaways.

Security

Your data stays yours

TLS 1.3 in transit. AES-256 at rest. Zero AI training on your notes. Your data is always exportable.

AI Pipeline

One note, three AI superpowers

Every note flows through your personal AI stack — auto-tagged, summarised, and ready to draft from. All server-side, never client-exposed.

Your note
raw capture
AI Route
auto-classify
AI Distil
key insights
AI Draft
generate
Express Studio

From messy notes to polished output

Select your notes, choose a template (blog post, email, report), watch AI turn raw thinking into publishable content.

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Ask Your Brain

Chat with your own knowledge

Ask questions like 'What did I decide about X?' and get answers cited from your own notes — not the internet. Your second brain talks back.

Voice Capture
Capture while walking, driving, thinking

Tap the mic → speak → transcribed and AI-routed automatically. No typing needed.

Calendar View
See what you thought, when

Monthly grid of your captures. Click any day to see what you were thinking about.

Daily Brain Workout
Review 5 notes · Build your streak

Spaced repetition for your second brain. A 3-minute daily habit that keeps your knowledge active, not archived.

Weekly Emergence Email
Your brain's weekly report

Every Sunday, AI detects the hidden patterns across your week's captures and emails you what your brain was actually working on.

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Ask your second brain anything.

See how Kurae answers questions from your own notes.
This demo uses 6 pre-loaded example notes.

Demo notes
Q4 launch checklist1:1 with Sarah — Oct 14Deep Work — Cal NewportHow to run a retroPARA method notesMorning routine

Ask a question above to see Kurae answer from notes

This demos 6 notes. Imagine this with 500 notes from your actual work.

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How it works

Raw thought → organised knowledge
in under 10 seconds

Kurae follows the CODE method — Capture, Organise, Distil, Express. Every feature maps directly to a step.

01
Capture

Dump everything.
No folders, no friction.

Open Kurae and type — or paste a URL, article, or meeting note. Raw thoughts land in your Inbox in under 5 seconds. Tag with #hashtag as you type, or let AI do it later.

Works from any device — browser or keyboard shortcut
Plain text, rich notes, or pasted URLs
Zero required fields — just type and hit Enter
kurae — inbox
Quick capture
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#project/kurae#idea#resource
Press⌘ Kto capture from anywhere
kurae — ai route
Your note
Meeting notes from Q3 planning — need to follow up on auth implementation before sprint ends.
AI Route suggests
Move to
ProjectsKurae Dev
Confidence: 94%
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Organise

AI routes each note
to exactly the right place.

After capture, AI Route reads the note and maps it to your PARA structure — Projects, Areas, Resources, or Archive. One tap to accept. You stay in control, AI does the filing.

Understands context — not just keywords
PARA-native: Projects → Areas → Resources → Archive
Override any suggestion with one tap
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Distil

Surface the insight.
Discard the noise.

Over time, notes accumulate. AI Distil compresses any note into bullet-point insights so you never lose the signal in verbose captures. Works best during your weekly review.

Progressive summarisation — like highlighting a book
Extracts action items, key ideas, and open questions
Run on individual notes or entire project folders
kurae — ai distil
Deep Work — Cal Newport
Resource · Added 3 days ago
AI Distil — Key Insights
Deep focus is a competitive advantage in knowledge work
Schedule 4hr deep work blocks before 12pm daily
Drain your shallow work calendar first
ACTION: Remove Slack from phone this week
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Selected notes (3)
Deep Work insights
Q3 planning notes
Second Brain article
Blog post
Email
Report
Generating draft…
The Case for a Second Brain
In today's knowledge economy, the ability to recall and connect ideas is the real competitive edge. Here's how I built mine…
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Express

Turn notes into polished output — in your voice.

Select any notes, pick a template (blog post, email, or report), and Express Studio drafts content using your own knowledge as the source — not generic AI. Your ideas, your voice, 10× faster.

Drafts from your notes — not hallucinated filler
Templates: blog post, email, report, tweet thread
Edit the draft live before exporting or copying
Browser Extension

Clip the web directly into your second brain

Install the Kurae Chrome extension, highlight any text or article, and it lands in your Inbox — AI-routed to the right PARA bucket automatically. No copy-paste, no tab switching.

Clip selected text or full article with one click
AI auto-routes to Projects, Areas, Resources or Archives
Works on any page — articles, PDFs, docs, tweets
Secured with your personal API key from Settings
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The PARA Method — Building a Second Brain
fortelabs.com
Selected text
"Projects have a specific outcome and a deadline. Areas are ongoing responsibilities without a hard endpoint..."
AI suggests: Resources

How does Kurae compare?

Most tools ask you to build the system. Kurae is the system — AI-native from the ground up.

FeatureKuraeWorkspace toolsMarkdown editors
AI auto-organises notes✓Add-on✗
Ask your own notes (RAG)✓Add-onPlugin
Weekly pattern detection email✓✗✗
Daily spaced review + streaks✓✗Plugin
Voice capture + auto-route✓✗✗
Browser extension (free)✓✓✓
PARA methodology built-in✓ManualManual
Knowledge graph (AI edges)✓✗Basic
Markdown editor✓✓✓
Backlinks [[]]✓✓✓
Data export (Markdown + JSON)✓✓✓
Free full-featured tier✓Limited✓
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Everything you need to know before you start.

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What early testers are saying

Early access · Quotes shared with permission · Names withheld for privacy

"I've tried Notion, Obsidian, Roam. The setup always wins. Kurae is the first one where I captured something and it was just… organised."

A
Ahmad M.
Software Engineer · Beta

"I had 1,800 notes in Notion I never looked at. That's not a second brain, that's a graveyard. AI Route changed that."

P
Priya T.
Product Manager · Beta

"The AI Distil feature pulls out exactly what I need. I stopped highlighting manually within two days of using it."

O
Oliver K.
Independent Researcher · Beta

"Express Studio went from rough notes to a newsletter draft in under 3 minutes. That alone is worth it."

R
Ravi S.
Founder · Beta

"I have PARA anxiety — always second-guessing which bucket. AI Route just decides. That friction is gone."

M
Marcus D.
Engineering Manager · Beta

"The dark theme, the keyboard shortcuts, the speed — it feels like a developer tool for knowledge. I'm staying."

Y
Yuki N.
Content Creator · Beta

"I've tried Notion, Obsidian, Roam. The setup always wins. Kurae is the first one where I captured something and it was just… organised."

A
Ahmad M.
Software Engineer · Beta

"I had 1,800 notes in Notion I never looked at. That's not a second brain, that's a graveyard. AI Route changed that."

P
Priya T.
Product Manager · Beta

"The AI Distil feature pulls out exactly what I need. I stopped highlighting manually within two days of using it."

O
Oliver K.
Independent Researcher · Beta

"Express Studio went from rough notes to a newsletter draft in under 3 minutes. That alone is worth it."

R
Ravi S.
Founder · Beta

"I have PARA anxiety — always second-guessing which bucket. AI Route just decides. That friction is gone."

M
Marcus D.
Engineering Manager · Beta

"The dark theme, the keyboard shortcuts, the speed — it feels like a developer tool for knowledge. I'm staying."

Y
Yuki N.
Content Creator · Beta

"The dark theme, the keyboard shortcuts, the speed — it feels like a developer tool for knowledge. I'm staying."

Y
Yuki N.
Content Creator · Beta

"I have PARA anxiety — always second-guessing which bucket. AI Route just decides. That friction is gone."

M
Marcus D.
Engineering Manager · Beta

"Express Studio went from rough notes to a newsletter draft in under 3 minutes. That alone is worth it."

R
Ravi S.
Founder · Beta

"The AI Distil feature pulls out exactly what I need. I stopped highlighting manually within two days of using it."

O
Oliver K.
Independent Researcher · Beta

"I had 1,800 notes in Notion I never looked at. That's not a second brain, that's a graveyard. AI Route changed that."

P
Priya T.
Product Manager · Beta

"I've tried Notion, Obsidian, Roam. The setup always wins. Kurae is the first one where I captured something and it was just… organised."

A
Ahmad M.
Software Engineer · Beta

"The dark theme, the keyboard shortcuts, the speed — it feels like a developer tool for knowledge. I'm staying."

Y
Yuki N.
Content Creator · Beta

"I have PARA anxiety — always second-guessing which bucket. AI Route just decides. That friction is gone."

M
Marcus D.
Engineering Manager · Beta

"Express Studio went from rough notes to a newsletter draft in under 3 minutes. That alone is worth it."

R
Ravi S.
Founder · Beta

"The AI Distil feature pulls out exactly what I need. I stopped highlighting manually within two days of using it."

O
Oliver K.
Independent Researcher · Beta

"I had 1,800 notes in Notion I never looked at. That's not a second brain, that's a graveyard. AI Route changed that."

P
Priya T.
Product Manager · Beta

"I've tried Notion, Obsidian, Roam. The setup always wins. Kurae is the first one where I captured something and it was just… organised."

A
Ahmad M.
Software Engineer · Beta

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