Thoute gives you two fast outlines: Today, a date-based surface where everything you think lands on a day, and the Library, an optional hierarchy for the things worth keeping. One bullet at a time. Everything you write is end-to-end encrypted — see Privacy for what that means.
Thoute is in private beta. Request an invite at app.thoute.com.
When you get an invite code, register at app.thoute.com/register with your email and the code.
A vault is one encrypted space. Most people only need one. You can create more later.
Pick a passphrase. This is your only key. Thoute derives your encryption key from it — there is no recovery if you lose it. The last step of creating a vault shows the passphrase once and asks you to confirm you've saved it somewhere safe. Use a password manager.
Once your vault opens, you're looking at Today — today's date and one question: What's on your mind?
Type a thought into the card, pick Note, Task or Event, and press Enter. From then on Today is an outline: click anywhere and start typing. Press Enter for a new sibling bullet, Tab to indent it under the previous one, Shift+Tab to outdent.
That's the whole writing model. Bullets all the way down. Drag bullets to rearrange.
Hit Cmd+K to find anything — or to capture from anywhere. It opens on a launch pad: Capture a thought, Add a task, Add an event, Ask your vault, then your pinned lines and the days you were last in. Start typing to search.
Hit Cmd+. to zoom into a bullet — it becomes the new top of the outline. Cmd+, zooms back out.
Open a line's ••• menu and choose Task or Event to change what it is — or type /task then space, if you'd rather not leave the keyboard. See Tasks for the full task model.
Type (( to embed a reference to any other bullet. See Capture for more on references.
Type #followup for an inline tag.
For many people, Today is the whole system. Enter thoughts, tasks, and attachments into today, add a #tag when something belongs to a theme, and let search, tags, and Ask AI do the re-finding. There is no requirement to organize beyond that, ever. A vault that is nothing but dated bullets is a perfectly good vault.
When something deserves a life beyond the day you wrote it, that's what the Library is for. It's a second outline with no dates: a hierarchy you arrange by hand. A project and its moving parts, the people in your organization, reference material you keep returning to. Pull items up from Today when they've earned a durable home, or write there directly. Today stays your inbox; the Library is the shelf.
Neither surface is more "correct." Start with Today alone, and let the Library grow only if and when you want it.