Frequently Asked Questions

Anchoris is a local-first personal work system for Mac. It gives your notes, files, projects, time, and AI context a visible home on your computer, then helps reveal the relationships around your work.

Instead of treating every document as an isolated file, Anchoris is designed to help you see the surrounding context: what belongs to a project, what points back to a file, what was opened alongside it, and where the thread can continue.

Anchoris started from the founder’s own work. Files were saved, but scattered. Notes lived in apps, decisions sat in chats, plans lived on calendars, and AI tools kept asking for more context before they could help.

After trying many note apps, project tools, graph tools, file managers, and AI workspaces, none felt like the quiet center Anchoris was meant to become: local by default, connected by design, time-aware, and careful about AI boundaries.

Anchoris is free to use. If you have feedback or ideas, email sayhi@anchoris.app.

Anchoris is for people whose work depends on context: researchers, writers, builders, students, founders, operators, and anyone who moves between notes, files, projects, references, and unfinished threads.

It is especially useful for people who do not just want to store information, but want to understand how their work connects over time. If you often ask “Where did I leave off?” or “What else belongs to this file?”, Anchoris is being built for that kind of work.

Anchoris sits between those categories. It works with local files, helps organize work into projects, reveals connections through Lens and Work Map, and is designed for AI that works inside boundaries you choose.

A traditional notes app stores writing, and a file manager stores documents. Anchoris is designed to become the system around your work: where it lives, how it connects, how it changes over time, and how you return to it.

Anchoris is designed around a local workspace on your Mac. Your workspace files stay local by default, in a folder you can see, back up, move, and control.

This matters because a local folder is not just a technical detail; it is a boundary. It gives your work a place before it becomes someone else’s cloud context.

No, not by default. The Anchoris website may collect newsletter or waitlist data when you submit a form, but that is separate from your local workspace.

Joining the waitlist does not create a workspace account, upload your notes, or send your local documents to Anchoris.

Cloud tools made work easier to access, and AI tools made it easier to process. But together, they also make it easier for personal work to disappear into systems you do not fully control.

Local-first gives your work a clear starting point: your files begin on your Mac, and you decide what to connect, sync, or bring into AI workflows.

Captured pages are saved inside your local Anchoris workspace as ordinary HTML files, with supported page images stored locally alongside them. The source URL and capture details are preserved so you can see where the material came from.

Yes. Anchoris can open .html and .htm files in a clean Reader view, include readable content in local search, show document structure in Outline, and connect the file to Projects and related work.

Not every page can or should be captured. Anchoris works with pages your browser can access and that the site allows the extension to read. Access restrictions, protected media, paywalls, and some highly interactive applications may limit what can be saved.

No. Captured pages are written into your local workspace. Anchoris does not require the page content to be stored in an Anchoris cloud account in order to read, search, or connect it locally.

A bookmark remembers where a page was. Anchoris keeps a local, readable copy with its source context, so the material can remain available to your project, search, and connected work even after the browser tab is gone.

Folders show where files are stored. Anchoris is designed to show the work around a file: related notes, backlinks, project context, opened-alongside materials, canvases, and time-aware threads.

The goal is not to replace folders, but to make the relationships around your local work visible.

Lens is the context panel around a file. It is designed to show nearby work such as related files, backlinks, opened-alongside materials, project context, and connected notes.

Work Map is the visual layer of that idea: a map of the relationships around your current file or project. It is graph for context, not graph for decoration.

Work does not only live in files. It unfolds through sessions, returns, plans, pauses, and unfinished threads.

Anchoris treats time-aware context as part of the work system, so your work can be understood not only by where it is stored, but by how it moves and when you return to it.

Anchoris is designed for AI with boundaries. The goal is not to replace your judgment or silently change your work, but to help you understand context, summarize work, and move forward with reviewable assistance.

Local AI support is part of the direction, and optional AI workflows should make it clear what context is being used.

Anchoris is free to use. The product is currently being prepared for early access, and early versions are being shared as it develops.

Too many modern AI tools ask people to pay before they can feel whether the product truly helps them. Anchoris should earn trust by being useful first.

Anchoris is currently being prepared for early access. You can join the waitlist to receive product updates, essays, and early access notes.

The first version is focused on Mac because Anchoris is built around a local desktop workspace.