Nest
Solo-use · v1

An outliner built for one.

Fast. Keyboard-first. Text-only. Nest is a personal outliner that captures everything, nests everything, and gets out of your way.

Create your account → Sign in Takes about thirty seconds.

Small surface. Lots of leverage.

A tight set of features that compound on each other. Nothing you have to learn.

Infinite nesting

Bullet inside a bullet inside a bullet. Click any bullet to zoom into that subtree and focus.

Keyboard-first

Outline without touching the mouse. The shortcuts are the same ones you already know.

Enter Tab Shift+Tab ⌘K

Inline #tags and @dates

Type them in the flow. The server normalizes them into structured metadata you can filter on.

Full-text jump

SQLite FTS5 under the hood. Hit ⌘K from anywhere and jump straight to a note by title, tag, or date.

Inbox, by default

Every account comes with an Inbox at the top of the tree. Capture first, organize later — or never.

Undo anywhere

Soft deletes. Any row you drop shows a toast with Undo. Nothing gone until you say so.

What Nest isn't.

Most notes apps race to be "the everything app". Nest picks the opposite path.

What's left is a very fast outline.

Built on things you already trust.

One binary. One database file. Runs on the smallest box you can rent.

Backend

Rust + axum. argon2 password hashing. HTTP-only session cookies. Recursive CTEs for the tree.

Database

SQLite, single file. FTS5 for search. Soft deletes. No Postgres, no Redis, no cache tier.

Frontend

Vanilla JavaScript modules. Plain CSS. No build step. "View source" actually works.

Take thirty seconds. Make an account.