Ronin forces you to capture with intent — so every saved page becomes a structured thinking artifact in your Obsidian vault, not another bookmark you'll never revisit.
Read-it-later apps, pinned tabs, drag-and-drop screenshots — they're all storage with no schema. Your future self pays the tax.
A graveyard of titles you won't recognize next week, scattered across four apps and a notes file called "misc.md".
Ronin asks why you're saving before you save — then writes the note in the shape your future self can use.
Hit ⌘⇧K on any page, selection, or YouTube video. Ronin reads the source, the timestamp, the highlighted text — whatever you've got.
Pick why you're saving this. The intent determines the template, the folder, and the questions Ronin will ask.
Local LLM (Ollama) extracts the meaningful bits, fills the template, and writes a markdown file straight into your vault. No round-trip.
Reader-mode extraction strips ads, nav, and tracker bait. You keep the article, not the chrome.
Highlight exactly the passage you care about. Surrounding context is preserved as a quote block.
Pulls the transcript, the timestamp you paused at, and the chapter title. Citations come for free.
Runs Llama, Mistral, or whatever you've got installed. Your reading habits never leave the machine.
Writes markdown straight to your filesystem. No sync, no API, no middleman to break next year.
Each intent ships with a schema. Rewrite them in plain markdown — they're your templates.
Two built-in intents cover the modes most knowledge workers actually use. Each one shapes a different note.
My vault used to be a graveyard of orphan notes. Ronin made me commit to a reason before saving — now everything I capture connects to something.
The trade journal template alone is worth it. I went from "I read something good" to a structured rationale I can review weeks later.
Local-only, runs against my own Ollama, writes plain markdown. This is the first capture tool I've trusted to keep around.
Free, open source, local-first. Install in under a minute and capture your next idea the way it deserves.