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A folderless notebook for engineers

Fast capture in the terminal. Spatial discovery on the web.

Orbgem is a hosted notebook for engineers and SREs: log a line from your shell, let it link itself to what you already know, and find it again on a timeline, a graph or a canvas.

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curl -fsSL https://orbgem.com/install | sh

Solo is free. Every note stays plain Markdown you can export.

Your terminal

# every capture is appended to today's daily note

Mention k8s, auth-service, pg, runbook or cache and watch the graph.

Or try one

Your graphToday links to 0 notes

Today's timeline

  1. Nothing logged yet. Press Enter in the terminal and it lands here.

A live demo with five sample notes. The link matching is the same code the product runs.

Features

Built for the middle of an incident

Everything in Orbgem is a Markdown note: daily logs, templates, canvas boards, even the manual. There are no folders. Structure comes from links, aliases and properties.

  • Capture without leaving the shell

    orb "text" appends a line to today's daily note in your hosted vault. orb_last saves the command you just ran as a code block.

  • Links that suggest themselves

    As you type, Orbgem matches whole words against note titles and aliases and offers the link. One click turns k8s into [[Kubernetes|k8s]].

  • Three places, one set of notes

    The timeline is a chronological feed with a capture box. The graph shows notes as capsules and links as wires. The canvas is an infinite board for laying out an incident.

  • Commands you fill in, not retype

    A code block with placeholders like <NAMESPACE> renders fill-in fields. Copy gives you the finished command, not the template.

  • Scan Mode for the long incident log

    Press Alt S (Option S on a Mac) and everything disappears except bold text, highlights and open tasks. You read what you marked as mattering.

  • Plain Markdown, yours to take

    Notes are stored as the exact Markdown text you wrote. One click exports the whole vault as a .zip of .md files that open unchanged in Obsidian or any editor.

Omnibar⌘K
Jump to any note without reaching for the mouse.
Backlinks inspector
Open a note and see its properties and every note that links to it.
Deep links
Every view and selection is an address, such as #graph?file=…, that you can paste into a ticket.

How it flows

Write first. The structure shows up afterwards.

  1. 01

    Capture

    Something happens. You write one line from the terminal you are already in, or from the capture box on the timeline.

    $ orb "auth-service 502s after the k8s drain"

  2. 02

    It links itself

    Orbgem recognises the notes you mentioned by title or alias and offers each link. Nothing to file, no folder to pick.

    + [[Auth Service]] · + [[Kubernetes]]

  3. 03

    Find it in the graph

    Next month the line is still wired to everything it touched. Open the note, read its backlinks, and paste the address into the ticket.

    orbgem.com/#graph?file=auth-service.md

Pricing

Free for one engineer

Two plans, both listed in full. Whichever you are on, your notes export as plain Markdown.

Solo

$0free

A notebook for one engineer. Everything you capture stays plain Markdown you can export.

  • 1,000 notes across up to 3 vaults
  • 100 MB of storage for notes, their history, images and video
  • Timeline, graph and canvas
  • Live sync across tabs and terminals
  • Terminal capture with orb
  • Full-text search and Scan Mode
  • One-click Markdown export
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An email address and a password are all it takes.

Sync

$8per user / month

For engineers whose alerts, terminals and teammates all write into the same vault.

  • Unlimited notes in up to 25 vaults
  • 10 GB of storage for notes, images and video, up to 1 GB of it note text
  • Alert webhooks into your timeline
  • 25 API tokens for machines and CI
  • More room for images and video: +10 GB for $2 a month, up to 20 times
  • Shared team vaultsSoon

Make a free account, then upgrade from Settings → Plan. Billed monthly through Stripe; cancel any time.

Log the next thing that happens

Create a vault, install the shell functions, and write one line. It will be linked and findable before you have decided where it belongs.

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curl -fsSL https://orbgem.com/install | sh