Use cases, step-by-step guides and the tech underneath. How to save anything, find it again, and get answers from your own notes.
Use cases
What ReticulOS looks like in a student’s term, a research project, a job hunt or an ordinary week.
- ReticulOS for students: every lecture, reading and deadline in one placeRecord lectures, save readings and slides, keep one collection per course, and ask your own notes questions before the exam.
- ReticulOS for researchers: sources, quotes and answers that cite themSave quotes, figures, whole papers and interviews while you work, keep one collection per project, and ask for a brief where every point links to its source.
- ReticulOS for everyday life: the things you always need and can never findWarranties, receipts, bookings, manuals, the Wi-Fi password, the dentist's number: one place, and you can just ask.
- ReticulOS for job seekers: write each application onceKeep your résumé, bio, links and notes on each role in one collection, and fill in application forms from what you saved, with a source for every answer.
- ReticulOS for developers: the snippet you need, one shortcut awayCapture commands, errors and doc links without leaving your editor, find them in a keystroke, and let Claude Code or Cursor search them too.
- Five apps you can stop jugglingNotes, to-dos, a voice recorder, a screenshot folder and a handful of passwords: how ReticulOS keeps them in one place, and why that matters.
Guides
Step by step: the shortcuts, collections, the day book and the vault, and how to get the most from each.
- Ten habits that get the most out of ReticulOSSmall habits that make ReticulOS faster to use and better at finding things: shortcuts, titles, collections, pins and the questions worth asking.
- 12 features you probably didn't know you hadScreen-area capture, paste-anywhere, flashcard toggles, 2× playback, undo for AI changes and more: the useful corners of ReticulOS.
- How to manage your tasks without another to-do appTo-dos that live next to your notes, a page for each day, unfinished tasks that carry forward, and tags that pull a project's tasks together.
- Every ReticulOS shortcut, explainedThe six shortcuts that work from any app, plus the ones in the widget, Reticulum and the editor, with what each one is for.
- Collections and notes: the basicsWhat a note is, how collections work, the three ways to view them in Reticulum, and how to edit, pin, colour, move and delete.
- The day book, step by stepA page for every day: moving between days, adding entries, tags, the cross-day tag view, carried-forward to-dos and one-click summaries.
- The password vault, explainedHow to set up the vault, what to keep in it, how it protects what's inside, and when a dedicated password manager is the better choice.
Tech
How it works underneath: connecting AI apps, your ChatGPT plan, the RetMD format and how your notes stay private.
- Coming soon: use the ChatGPT plan you already pay forComing soon to ReticulOS: sign in with ChatGPT and Ret will answer from your ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan, with no API key and no extra AI subscription.
- Connect your notes to Claude, Cursor and other AI apps with MCPTurn on MCP and the AI apps on your computer can search and read your notes. Every change they propose waits for your yes. Free on every plan.
- How Ret finds the right note, and shows you where it came fromSearch by meaning that runs on your computer, combined with keyword search, then answers that cite numbered notes. Here's what happens when you ask Ret a question.
- RetMD: a walkthrough of the format your notes are written inEvery note in ReticulOS is stored as RetMD, a careful subset of Markdown. Here's the full syntax, with examples you can type.
- Security in ReticulOS: who can read your data, and who can'tWhere your notes live, how they're encrypted, why the vault can't be opened without your password (not even by us), what Ret sends to an AI and what it never does, and the technical details for security teams.
- How your notes stay privateEncryption at rest, a key held by your operating system, a separately locked vault, AI that only sees what it needs, and no analytics.
Release notes
What changed, release by release.
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