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sylys is a spatial thinking environment for knowledge work. More plainly, it's infrastructure for intellectual labor. It helps you understand, develop, and preserve complex ideas over time by organizing them through relationships, not folders or documents.

It's not just a notes app, document editor, local-first knowledge base, or AI-equipped research assistant — it's a cohering second brain for people who think for a living.

Most tools focus on storage, collaboration, or output. sylys is designed for understanding and contextualizing complex ideas.

• Notion is an all-in-one customizable workspace
• Everynotes stores notes, tasks, and ideas
• Obsidian helps you organize notes into a personal knowledge base
• NotebookLM assists with research and summarizes content

sylys helps you see how ideas connect, evolve, and cohere — while preserving context, sources, and intellectual lineage.

Spatial thinking means working with ideas in relation to one another, not just in a list or document.

In sylys, you can:

• arrange ideas visually
• explore connections and tensions
• surface patterns that linear tools hide

This makes it easier to reason, synthesize, and refine complex work.

sylys is for creative or critical thinkers and anyone who thinks for a living, including:

• founders and strategists
• writers and journalists
• researchers and academics
• analysts and policy makers

Whether you're an idea person whose thinking has outgrown their tools or a knowledge worker whose livelihood depends on clarity, coherence, citations, and long-term understanding, sylys is the cohering second brain for you.

sylys is not designed for:

• casual note-taking
• task management
• rapid content generation
• automation-first workflows

It favors depth over speed and coherence over volume.

sylys supports:

• research and synthesis
• investigative journalism
• long-form projects (books, white papers, theses)
• structured ideation and strategy

It's designed for work that unfolds over weeks, months, or years.

Yes. Your work lives on your machine, backed by plaintext files and local indexing.

You can export writing, reports, presentations, and learning materials — without severing them from their underlying structure.

Outputs are temporary. Understanding is preserved.

Yes. sylys supports importing notes from popular tools like Obsidian, Notion, Roam Research, and others.

Import functionality preserves your content structure and helps you migrate your existing knowledge base into sylys's spatial thinking environment.

During the beta, we'll prioritize the import formats most requested by early users.

Individual thinking comes first.

Team features are available on higher plans, allowing shared understanding without collapsing nuance or context.

Collaboration is designed to preserve coherence, not overwhelm it.

You do.

sylys is designed so your work lives with you, not on someone else's servers. Your notes, relationships, and drafts are stored on your device and remain fully yours.

Nothing is required, nothing is hidden, and nothing is extracted from your work.

Yes.

sylys is designed for serious thinking, including work that requires discretion. Your data stays under your control, and AI never operates without explicit permission.

Yes, deliberately and transparently.

sylys is AI-equipped, not AI-driven. AI can help draft, summarize, and reorganize your work, but you remain the final authority.

All AI suggestions are reviewable and optional. Nothing overwrites your thinking.

sylys is built by Liberatory Intelligence Laboratories, Co. (LIL Co.) where intellectual sovereignty is paramount and where the belief is that your thoughts should remain your own.

So our AI features are opt-in with a local AI option. If you are using cloud based models you will need to refer to your providers terms and services regarding training disclosures.

However, when running AI locally you can rest assured that your thinking isn't being harvested, trained on, or sold.

No. While the AI feature in sylys supercharge the apps helpfulness, AI is not a requirement.

You can use it where it helps, run it locally, or disable it entirely , without losing access to core functionality. With AI turned off sylys is still an exceptional powerful organizational application

In some cases, yes — as a draft.

AI in sylys can:

• propose outlines
• summarize sources
• restructure arguments
• surface contradictions

But every change is a proposal. You decide what becomes final.

sylys treats AI as an assistant inside a governed system, not an autonomous agent.

That means:

• no silent edits
• no hidden state
• no loss of authorship
• no flattening of context

AI is implemented to make critical thinking more fluid, not to think for you.

Not yet.

sylys is being built carefully, with a focus on correctness, integrity, and long-term usefulness rather than rapid feature churn.

Early users will help shape the system.

The first lines of code of sylys were written on January 1, 2026 so we are barely in our pre-MVP stage so at this time we reccomend you join the waitlist to be notified Join the waitlist to be notified when pricing details are available and to get early access opportunities.

FYI - Early beta participants will have special access and pricing considerations. Standard pricing will be announced closer to public launch.

Join the waitlist to get early access, updates, and invitations to participate in our upcoming private beta.