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04 Path finder
Amethyst, graph-first notes for Mac NOTES as a sky
Amethyst opens a folder of markdown and draws every wikilink as a line of light. Obsidian vaults work as they are. Nothing leaves the machine.
Welcome to Amethyst · Nebulae · Shaders. 2 hops.
See the source (opens in a new tab)(The app)
01 local, from the folder you already have
3 ways the same notes can be coloured
A note is a star. A wikilink is a line between two of them. Notes that cite each other gather into a constellation named after the hub at its centre.
The index stays on the Mac. No account, no AI, no telemetry. Amethyst never writes into .obsidian.
02 The sky, in pictures
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LOOK, before you read.
The nebula, the mineral, and a chart from 1660. The fourth card is the sample vault, and it answers.
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See the source (opens in a new tab)03 Approach
A folder of markdown becomes a sky you can fly. The order is the product, not a setup guide you can skip.
The METHOD
Four movements. The files stay on the Mac.
Folder
Open
Point Amethyst at the folder you already have. Wikilinks, aliases, headings and frontmatter tags are read as they are.
Writing
Link
A new [[wikilink]] becomes a line of light. The graph stays up while the note is open. Editing nudges the layout instead of rebuilding it.
Constellations
Cluster
Louvain grouping pulls related notes together and names each constellation after its hub. The largest is violet. Colour can follow folder, tag, or age.
Instruments
Fly
Focus dive. Neighbours light up, one hop at a time.
Time-lapse. The vault, replayed as it grew.
Vault Radar. Hubs, orphans, and broken links, listed.
Instruments
(In short)
Amethyst, in two lines
Amethyst is a notes app for Mac. It reads the markdown folder you already keep, including an Obsidian vault, and draws the links as a sky. The files stay on disk. The source is public on GitHub. There is no account and no telemetry.
The repository is public
The Mac app, in the open.
There is no installer on this page. These three go where they say.