Your memory as plain text, not a black box.
While everyone stacks more layers on top — vector stores, memory frameworks, another
“second brain” app — Daybook Suite steps back down to the substrate:
plain text, append-only, zero dependencies.
Memory should not be a black box. It should be a stack of ledger pages you can actually read.
What it is
Daybook Suite is three small, independent tools that share one foundation and one source of truth:
daybook — the ledger (账 + 录)
A local, plain-text journal and index. Append-only. No database, no server, no lock-in. MIT.
daybook-mcp — the query face (璇玑)
Exposes your daybook to any MCP-capable client. Read-oriented, mountable, model-agnostic. MIT.
daybook-orch — the conductor (司南)
Orchestration and scheduling across agents and tasks. AGPL-3.0-or-later or a commercial license.
Why plain text
- You own it. A folder of text files you can read with cat, archive, diff, and back up anywhere.
- Runs anywhere. Zero dependencies. Copy it to any machine and it just works.
- Append-only. Nothing is silently rewritten. History stays history.
- Auditable. No hidden state, no telemetry, no cloud round-trip.
Price
$9.9 one-time · personal & non-commercial use
The full suite — daybook · daybook-mcp · daybook-orch — plus updates.
Buy — $9.9
Honest pricing. The full source is open (MIT / AGPL) and free on GitHub —
clone it, read it, audit it, build it yourself. Buying here is for people who want a
one-click download, future updates, and to keep the work going. No subscription, no lock-in.
Commercial use of
daybook-orch requires a separate commercial license —
contact
[email protected].
Payments and applicable taxes are handled by our Merchant of Record,
Paddle.
License
Daybook and daybook-mcp are released under the MIT License.
daybook-orch is released under AGPL-3.0-or-later, with a commercial license available.
Full details are in each package's LICENSING.md.
Daybook Suite is operated by 手艺人老宋, an independent developer.
Contact: [email protected]
· [email protected]