Wake up with more than
you went to bed with.
You already think out loud to AI all day. chanio keeps it, stores it in a vault you own, and sets agents to work on it overnight. By morning, your own thinking has compounded — connected, deepened, ready to use. Same loop, async, every night.
Capture
Everything you type into Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all day — the questions, the corrections, the half-formed ideas. The richest record of how you think already exists. chanio just keeps it.
Store
It lands in your Obsidian vault, on your disk. Plain markdown you can read, search, and own forever. Not a cloud you rent — a library you keep.
Compound
Two passes while you sleep. A local pass compiles the day's captures into your vault at $0 — linking today's thinking to last week's, closing the open threads you circled but never finished. Overnight, the held questions go to the big AIs — Claude, Gemini, your choice — and the answers are in your brief by 6am. One batch, only if you held any. Not autonomous agents inventing work; a synthesis of what you already made.
Revisit
You wake to a morning brief — not a transcript, a synthesis. What you're circling, what you've answered, what to chase today. You read it, you correct it, you stay in the driver's seat. The loop runs again tonight.
The model is rented. The mind is yours.
Built for one thing: thinking that compounds.
Most of your best thinking evaporates. The loop exists to stop that, and for nothing else.
Every claim, with its limit attached.
We'd rather you trust this than be wowed by it. Here's what the research supports — and exactly where it stops. Every card links to the source.
Your notebook can be part of your mind. Literally.
Clark & Chalmers' "extended mind" argued that a reliable external store you use fluently is a genuine part of your cognition. Their original example was Otto — a man with Alzheimer's whose notebook did the remembering. chanio is Otto's notebook, for your thinking.
Honest limit: the "Google effect" — when you know something is stored, you encode it less. The fix is synthesis, not archive: chanio pushes processed understanding back to you, so you engage with it, not just file it.
Your brain consolidates memory while you sleep. So can this.
During deep sleep, the hippocampus replays the day and hands it to the neocortex for durable storage — and connects it to what you already knew. chanio's overnight job is a parallel process: it works the day's material in a quiet window and returns it integrated.
Honest limit: it's a parallel, not the same mechanism. Sleep rewires neurons; chanio rewrites a document. The integration still happens when you read the brief in the morning — which is the point.
Spaced revisiting is one of the most proven ways to learn.
Retrieval practice and spaced repetition are among the most replicated findings in cognitive science: coming back to material at intervals, and pulling it from memory instead of re-reading it, reliably beats cramming for durable retention. The morning brief is spaced retrieval without flashcards.
Honest limit: this compounds what you've actually worked on — it does not raise fluid IQ. Working-memory "brain training" famously fails to transfer. chanio makes your real knowledge durable; it doesn't hand you a higher g-factor.
AI augments you — only if you stay active.
A Science RCT found generative AI cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality 18%. But an MIT study found people who passively outsourced to AI showed weaker neural engagement and couldn't recall what they'd just "written" — "cognitive debt."
The whole design hinges on this: passive outsourcing atrophies thinking; active interrogation augments it. chanio gives you a brief to read, question, and annotate — never an answer to rubber-stamp. Driver's seat, not passenger.
Running nightly since July 2026.
On one Mac so far.
Running nightly on the founder's Mac since July 2026. On Free you run it yourself; Pro runs it for you and is in private beta.