Visionaries often carry an apex: an abstract goal or belief that quietly guides every decision. Elon has “sustaining and expanding the light of consciousness.” Steve Jobs had "bicycles for the mind." Instead of dumping notes into a flat vault and admiring a pretty but mostly decorative Obsidian graph, Apex Notes makes the graph the main UI. Your apex sits at the top. Every note connects back to it through parent-child relationships.

Hey Product Hunt! After a co-founder split, I still wanted to keep working on our project. But without his technical brain, the context became a challenge to manage. I installed Obsidian, hoping the graph would help me think through the vision, product, the architecture, the market. But I kept running into this problem: Obsidian’s graph is beautiful, but it wasn’t functional. It wasn't made for managing context for hierarchical thinkers. I like to keep my projects aligned with my Apex: my overarching vision of what I believe tech should do for humanity. Obsidian did not really allow me organize notes that way, so I made my own thing. Apex Notes is local-first Markdown, but the graph is the UI. Notes can be roots, children, loose thoughts, or contextual references. You can drag them around to organize, build hierarchy through frontmatter, create notes directly in the graph, and keep your thinking tied to the thing that actually matters.

How do you keep the parent child structure from feeling forced when a note relates to multiple ideas?

@manal_essalek1 parent is not mandatory and the in-line [[wikilinks]] are not hierarchical so i suggest to just connect it to the multiple ideas like that! thanks for your comment :)

How do you keep the parent child structure from feeling forced when a note relates to multiple ideas?

@manal_essalek1 parent is not mandatory and the in-line [[wikilinks]] are not hierarchical so i suggest to just connect it to the multiple ideas like that! thanks for your comment :)

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