Naute is an open-source markdown notebook you deploy to your own AWS account with a single command. A split-pane editor fluent in prose and code, the gentle company of an AI when you ask for it, and a serverless stack that runs on your domain, with your data — so the whole thing is yours.
1# Notes from a quiet morning23Phone face down. One tab. Forty minutes of nothing but the cursor breathing.45## What surfaced6- A bug I'd been carrying for weeks.7- A name that finally fit.8- Why I started writing this down.910> "静けさ — clearest thoughts arrive in silence."1112```ts13// 06:47, before the world wakes14const clarity = silence.write(40 /* minutes */);
Phone face down. One tab. Forty minutes of nothing but the cursor breathing.
"静けさ — clearest thoughts arrive in silence."
Each feature earns its place. No clutter, no upsell — just the parts you reach for when you want to write something down and find it again later.
CodeMirror 6 on the left, a live preview on the right. Code blocks render through Shiki with the same TextMate grammars your IDE uses — TypeScript, Rust, SQL, shell, all of them — so technical notes, snippets, and half-baked configs read the way you wrote them.
Generate a note from a one-line prompt, or hand it a rough draft and get back tidy markdown with a title and tags. Streamed, cancellable, optional.
Filter by one tag or many, search by title, sort by date or name. All derived client-side — no backend ceremony to keep your taxonomy fresh.
A full PWA with an auto-updating service worker and workbox caching. Pin it to your dock, your home screen, your dashboard — wherever you write.
OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code + PKCE, optional TOTP, access tokens in memory, refresh tokens in HTTP-only cookies — with installed PWAs falling back to persistent storage so sessions survive iOS quirks.
The whole stack — Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudFront — ships as
one SAM template you deploy to your own account with
./infra/deploy.sh.
Sleeps free, and a single writer's daily use comfortably fits
inside the AWS free tier.
The preview uses a typographic stack tuned for reading — variable serif body, italic display heads, properly hung punctuation, and syntax highlighting from Shiki.
# The morning I learned to listen I used to write to be heard. Now I write to *see* what I think. ## Notes that earned their keep - A small pond is enough for the moon. - Patience is a kind of attention. - Editing is a form of respect. > "The page is a quiet room. Be a polite guest." #essays #morning #craft
I used to write to be heard. Now I write to see what I think.
"The page is a quiet room. Be a polite guest."
Naute talks to Claude through a streaming Lambda. The API key lives in SSM. The UI is one dialog with two verbs.
You can ask for a fresh note from a single sentence, or hand Claude a wall of unstructured text and get back something you'd actually want to keep. Both stream into the editor in real time and can be cancelled mid-thought.
Monozukuri is more than manufacturing. It is the quiet conviction that how a thing is made matters as much as the thing itself — that the hand of the maker stays in the work, and that small refinements, repeated over years
No framework lock-in, no abandoned dependencies. The bill of materials is intentionally small and readable from top to bottom.
There's no hosted Naute to subscribe to. The code is MIT-licensed and the entire AWS stack — frontend, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudFront, Route 53 — ships in one repo as a single SAM template. Roughly thirty minutes from clone to your first sign-in.