Honest by design.
Sync health is visible in the status bar. A push that fails says so. Other apps' silent auto-push failures are the exact defect class this was built against.
NATIVE macOS · GIT-NATIVE · NO ELECTRON
Markdown vaults at native Mac speed.
Valutorio opens your existing markdown vault and makes it fast. Wikilinks, backlinks, graph, full-text search, and git sync that never shows you a conflict marker.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Git-native. Every save is a commit.
Your vault is a real git repository, pushed to a remote you own. Sync your notes across all your devices for free. No sync service, no subscription.
main · 1,284 commits · every one of them yours
01 · The problem
Why not the app you use now?
The popular knowledge-base apps run on Electron, and it shows. On large vaults, users report startup times up to 25 seconds, and a community plugin exists whose only job is to make startup bearable. The most-used git plugin has 11,800 stars and one documented failure mode: when a merge goes wrong it writes conflict markers into your notes and leaves you to fix it on the command line. Some users lost notes to silent overwrites. Others found out weeks late that auto-push had quietly stopped working.
Valutorio keeps the ideas and replaces the engine. The parser, the search index, the link graph, and the sync engine are Rust. The interface is Swift and AppKit. There is no JavaScript runtime between you and your notes.
Sources: startup times · conflict markers · silent overwrites · stopped working
Measured on the 2,000-file / 55 MB benchmark vault. Apple silicon, macOS 14.
- 1.07 s cold index, 2,000 files
- 1.8–6.6 ms full-text search
- < 0.5 ms wikilink autocomplete
- 0.65 µs backlink lookup
- 10 ms graph snapshot, 2,000 notes
- 111 ms git sync cycle
- 0.1 ms keystroke latency, 1 MB note
- < 1 s 300 MB file, cold open
02 · Git sync
Sync that never shows you a conflict marker.
Every Valutorio vault is a real git repository. Edit on two machines, go offline, come back: the sync engine merges what can be merged and keeps both versions when it can't. Same-region edits land in your note as adjacent blocks, local copy first, valid markdown everywhere. Deleted-versus-edited files keep both artifacts. No merge prompt. Zero conflict markers ever touch your notes.
Self-healing.
A corrupted or missing repository is detected and repaired in place, and history is restored from the remote. You are never dropped to a terminal.
Your history is portable.
It's git. Clone your vault to any machine, read it with any tool, leave any time with everything.
A folder of markdown files. That's the whole format.
Point Valutorio at your existing vault. Nothing is converted, nothing is imported: your notes stay plain .md files on your disk, readable by every editor written in the last thirty years and every editor written in the next thirty. Version history is a standard git repository. Delete the app tomorrow and you lose nothing.
~/vaults/field-notes
├── Daily/2026-08-28.md
├── Projects/Coastal Atlas.md
├── Research/Interview method.md
└── .git ← your history, yours
03 · Download
