Your memories now have a face. And a voice.
Keep using ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Each one sees only its own chats; chanio holds all three, plus the notes you never gave any of them, as plain files on your Mac. So it can show what none of them can: what you keep asking about, how often, and since when. Then ask it questions, hear your week read back, and quiz yourself on what you kept, without sending anything anywhere.
No account. Listen, flashcards and the quiz quote your own sentences, so nothing is made up, and nothing you write is sent.
Sample day. Queued up: 4 things to learn from, 5 open questions to look into. First: How do I say good luck and well done in Spanish to the other runners?
Ask the face
A sample day, so every tap works. Bring your own AI chats and it is about you, kept on this device. Tap the face, an eye or the mouth: each says something new.
- CaptureYour notes and pasted chats, saved as plain files on your Mac.
- UnderstandOvernight, a small AI reads the day’s notes together.
- OfferBy morning, what mattered, what is still open, and one question worth asking.
- ActYou do this part. chanio does not act for you.
Your memory, put to work.
A memory you own
Everything chanio learns is plain text in a folder on your Mac. Open it in any editor or Obsidian, back it up, move it. chanio runs no server that holds it, so if you change AI companies tomorrow, your memory comes with you.
~/chanio is the whole of it.
AI that costs less
A small AI on your Mac answers from your notes, so an everyday question costs nothing to run. A bigger AI is rented only when you press Send, on your own key, under a daily limit you set.
chanio meter shows what ran where, and what it cost.
Answers you can cross-check
Ask once and see every answer side by side: your Mac answers from your notes first, a second model on your Mac checks it, then each AI app you already have (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) gets the same short write-up, private notes left out. You see where they agree, how far each strays from your notes, and the comparison is kept.
chanio check "question" runs on the plans you already have.
Passions into outcomes
Write down what you are aiming at. Each morning chanio picks one small step from your own notes, the one that serves an aim first, and says which aim. You mark it done, change it, or skip it, and each choice leaves a receipt.
chanio reaim sets your aims beside what you actually spent time on.
An evening of TV is spent. An evening with chanio adds up.
Entertainment is made to be finished and forgotten. chanio works the other way: every note you keep makes the next answer better, what you cared about at twenty is still there at sixty, and because it is plain files you own, it outlasts any app, chanio included. One day you can hand it to someone you love.
The same loop, with real numbers.
Your memory stays on your Mac. The big online AIs only when you ask.
- Left eye10conversations filed of 10 on the week’s busiest night
- Right eye5AI sessions read of 21 at most
- Mouth0%written on the Mac, 3 trips to a bigger AI (amber)
Each wedge fills to its count; the dotted outline is the week’s most. Posted by the Mac from its own logs, in night.json.
- Tue 208 · 16
- Wed 216 · 21
- Thu 226 · 17
- Fri 236 · 8
- Sat 248 · 11
- Sun 259 · 2
- Mon 2610 · 5
The last seven nights, one face each. Under each: conversations filed · sessions read. Your own Mac can add its weekly counts to the mesh; never a note.
8ac10a9e35019ba73c1d1b43b7d45888f45882520d3a43dabed28aa5db047fe9chained night to nightTimestamped on hashcare.com- 1 · Capture10 captured MeasuredYour notes, and the AI chats you paste in, are saved as plain files on your Mac. No folders, no tags.
- 2 · Understand0 tokens on the Mac MeasuredOvernight, an AI reads the day’s notes together. Whatever leaves the Mac to do it is counted.
- 3 · Offerready 5:01 AM MT MeasuredBy morning, a summary: what mattered, the threads still open, and the questions worth asking.
- 4 · ActNot yetYou do this part. chanio does not act for you.
Left the Mac on Oct 26, midnight to 9:45 AM MT: 3 trips to a bigger AI · 73,704 tokensMeasured
Then again tonight, starting from what you did today.
chanio in 15 seconds
Press play. No sound unless you turn it on.
- What did you decide last week? It is buried in an AI chat you already closed.
- chanio keeps it, on your Mac. Ask later: a model on your own chip answers from your notes.
- Nightly since July. On the founder’s Mac, except Sep 1–3: a brief by morning.
- Try it in a browser tab first. A model can load in your browser. Nothing you ask it is sent. Open the demo
- chanio. An AI of your own, on your Mac. Running most nights on one Mac so far; iPhone and iPad are next.
The mark is the loop. The face is the mark.
Every face chanio shows is drawn from the same pieces, and it shows only a state something measured, with its words beside it.
- The loopFour wedges of one ring. Act is an outline: it has not shipped.
- Taken apartThe same three pieces that run today, on one Mac.
- The faceCapture and Understand are the eyes. Offer is the mouth.
The cloud rents your mind back to you. This runs on what you own.
chanio is the layer underneath: your memory and your model live on your own device, and what gets built on top is meant to belong to the people it serves.
Post-cloud
The AI runs on your own computer and answers from your own notes. A question goes to a bigger online AI only when you press Send, or in one nightly batch on your own key.
Text it
Ask by iMessage and the answer comes back in the same thread, made on your Mac instead of in someone else’s cloud.
Owned by the people it serves
The first business built on it is co-op.care: home care owned by the caregivers who deliver it.
Memory is living. Files are dead.
Stop filing notes
Save a chat, an idea or a decision with chanio capture, or paste it into the door. No folders, no tags, no digital housekeeping.
Observed passions
An honest mirror. Every night on Apple Silicon, it maps where your attention actually returns across your work.
Passions pursued
Not an archive of dead files. A living 6KB memory pack that keeps you aimed at your throughline and primes any AI you use.
Keep the memory. Borrow the big AIs.
Answers on your Mac are quoted from your own notes. When a question needs a bigger AI, chanio writes it up short and keeps it for tonight. Nothing goes out until you press Send, or, once you add your own key, in one nightly batch.
Everyday answers run on your Mac, from your own notes, and nothing is sent. The big online AIs are there when you choose them.
Built by Blaine Warkentine, MD — his whole working life runs on it nightly, on his own machine, since July 2026.
Get chanio
Pick your device. On a Mac it is one line in Terminal, then about ten minutes.
Comfortable with Terminal? Install it with one line
curl -fsSL https://chanio.com/install.sh | shno account · works with the AI you already use · Mac today, iPhone next
New here? Your first ten minutes, step by step →
Use it right now. Your files stay on your machine.
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Nothing to buy. We're building this with the people actually using it, before anything is for sale.
Everything that works today. When a question needs a bigger AI, chanio writes it up and you paste it into the one you already use.
Get chanioNot yet The overnight-run version (chanio does the paste for you, automatically) is next. A small group tests it first — it's not for sale, and won't be until it has earned that. Ask to be in that group →