Launching today
Arky
The canvas for thinking with AI
235 followers
The canvas for thinking with AI
235 followers
Introducing Arky, your AI thinking canvas. Arky is derived from the word “architect.” It's a canvas where you shape and assemble your thoughts with AI. Traditional writing tools lock you into a top-down flow — great for output, but too rigid for thinking. Design canvases give you spatial freedom, but no structure to build on. Arky brings both together. On a canvas, using markdown-based hierarchy, you can architect your ideas and develop them with AI — at every step of the process! ❤️🔥
mobile isn’t available yet — coming soon! thanks :)
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This is amazing! I literally use Milanote for this use-case. I hate nested pages and love the concept of canvases. I use mind mapping tools like mindnode as well, just to get that feature. I liked the onboarding as well, and it wasn't too much because the app is simple. Very good job!
Feature request - please enable mindmapping with "tab" to add new branches.
@raunaqvaisoha I've been using Milanote for awhile for the same reason. Glad you brought up a similar use case and I definitely want to check this out!
@raunaqvaisoha hey raunaq!
this means a lot, thank you 😊
milanote + mindnode is literally the combo we’ve been thinking about haha
and yeah, tab-to-add-branch is a great call.
we’re trying to evolve the canvas into something that makes thinking feel more natural and fluid.
really appreciate this 🙏
Hey Minseo! The structure versus freedom tension is the real thing here. Most canvas tools end up as digital Post-it walls that never convert into anything shippable. How does Arky handle the bridge? start messy and let the AI suggest a hierarchy, or stake out a skeleton first and fill in from there?
@keith_hiyamojo hey keith, really good question — that tension is something we think about a lot.
most canvas tools kinda stop at “messy but flexible” and don’t really help you turn that into something concrete.
what we’re trying to do is bridge that gap. start messy, but don’t stay there.
you can dump thoughts onto the canvas however you want, then use AI and shells(heading that contains paragraph) to gradually shape it — group things, refine them, pull structure out of the mess.
under the hood the canvas is backed by a markdown-like structure, so you can flip into a clean document view 1:1 anytime. also makes it way easier for the AI to actually understand what you’re building.
so basically we support both directions — bottom-up (messy thoughts → structure) and top-down (start with an outline → break it open and explore). same space, either way in.
that’s the core idea we’re chasing.
thanks for the thoughtful question — really appreciate you digging into this.
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This is awesome! I just started doing daily notes in Obsidian and just putting my messy thoughts and ideas in them but it's lacking clarity and this feels like it could bring that. Really like how easy it makes to start with messy notes and transform them into something organized and structured, like a Notion/Google doc.
I think you could have a referencing/linking feature like Obsidian or Notion where documents can connect to each other, that would make it even more awesome! Although the ability to see the canvas/doc at different scopes/levels of a document is already really good.
Congrats on the launch!
@richardguerre Thank you Richard, yeah totally — we’re also thinking about adding cross-project linking like Obsidian. it’s definitely one of the things they do really well. for us, we’re more focused on the step before that — helping you actually shape and evolve your thoughts before they get turned into structured markdown.
really appreciate the feedback. we’ll keep making it better 🙏
I’ve actually been looking for something like Arky for a while. I often get random ideas, but they usually end up stuck in notes and never really go anywhere. This feels like a much better way to actually work through those ideas instead of just storing them.
The canvas + structure combo is what really stands out. Being able to freely brainstorm and then gradually shape things into something more organized feels much closer to how thinking actually works.
One feature that could make it even smoother: automatically turning chats into cards directly on the canvas (with the right prompt/context). That would make the flow between thinking and building even more seamless
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Overall, the app feels really well put together, smooth, intuitive, and genuinely useful. Congratulations on the launch! 🚀
Absolutely love Arky – been using it for a few weeks. As a visual thinker, was doing most of my ideating in Figjam or just on paper before that and it was a total mess. Will be a lifetime user, glad to see it getting more attention :)
@amont_ Thanks Alex, really appreciate it! If you ever need anything, feel free to email me at minseo@arky.so :)