I
Drop things where they are
Catch the fragment before you know where it belongs. The inbox can be organized later, with AI beside you.
Privacy-first, self-hosted personal hub
Seiton
Stay messy. Get sorted.
Drop notes, links, files, and folders as they are. Tags and relationships weave later, turning your work into galaxies, systems, and stars.
No cloud.No subscriptions.No accounts.
Return in five seconds
Keep the previous step, current focus, and next move as a route.
Motion
From raw capture to star chart
Drop it in, weave it, follow it — the core Seiton loop in a short demo.
Why Seiton?
Capture first. Weave structure later.
Seiton is not a notes app or a task manager. It is a relationship map for messy work.
II
Relations become a star chart
after, part_of, related. Direction carries meaning, so context returns faster than through folder trees.
III
Your AI, on your PC
AI is optional: a CLI you configure, manual copy/paste, or none. No telemetry and no hidden cloud sync.
Three Scales
Galaxy, system, star. Change the grain of attention.
Start from the whole, move into a center, then return to the next concrete action.
Galaxy
See tag clusters and large flows at once. Scattered work begins to show its regions.
System
Place one item at the center and read before, after, parent, parts, and orbiting context by direction.
Star
Use the desk to recover today's routes, recent work, and inbox items before taking the next step.
Privacy
Privacy principles
Not a black box, but a tool on your own desk. You decide which places it may read.
Self-hosted and fully local
A 127.0.0.1 local server and SQLite on your own machine. No bundled cloud sync.
Reads only approved places
Only registered folders are read. Choose names-only or content-reading per root.
No telemetry
Usage is not sent anywhere. AI calls happen only through your configured CLI or manual copy flow.
Download
Start the way you like.
Artifacts are published through GitHub Releases. Pick the Windows build, the source build, or a plain clone.
Windows
Unzip and run. No Python needed. Start seiton.exe, or seiton-tray.exe to keep it in the task tray.
seiton-v1.1.0-win64.zip
Source
Runs from source with Python 3.9+ and nothing else. No pip install, no Node, no Docker.
seiton-v1.1.0-portable.zip
Clone
For developers. Zero runtime dependencies: clone, then run seiton.cmd.
git clone https://github.com/D-studyLab/seiton.git
v1.1.0 ships as the two zips above; an installer is planned for the next release. Unsigned Windows builds may trigger SmartScreen. Only run files from the official Releases page. If you trust the download, choose More info -> Run anyway.