Your notes are plain Markdown files in a normal folder on your Mac. No database you cannot open, no export step to get your own words back. This page tells you exactly where they are.

Where your notes live

By default:

~/Library/Application Support/ghosty-notes

That folder is called your vault. Open it:

open "$HOME/Library/Application Support/ghosty-notes"

If you have used this app under an older name, the folder may still be called anarlog or hyprnote. The app finds it either way and renames it to ghosty-notes once, on startup. Nothing is copied and nothing is lost.

What is in the vault

sessions/          one folder per meeting
humans/            people, one Markdown file each
organizations/     companies, one Markdown file each
chats/             your in-app chat history
prompts/           saved prompts
templates.json     your note templates
search_index/      the search index (rebuildable)
plugins/           plugin data
AGENTS.md          MCP setup, regenerated on every app start
settings.json      your settings
events.json        cached calendar events
calendars.json     which calendars are switched on
store.json         app state

Only sessions/, humans/ and organizations/ hold your words. Everything else is machinery.

Inside one meeting

Every meeting is a folder named with a UUID:

sessions/3f2b8c1e-.../
  _meta.json        title, date, participants, tags
  _memo.md          the notes you typed yourself
  transcript.json   the transcript, with timings and speakers
  <note-id>.md      one file per AI-enhanced note
  _agent.md         notes written by a coding agent, if any

Each .md file starts with a small YAML block giving its ID, its meeting and its title, then the Markdown body.

_agent.md is the only file a connected coding agent can write to. Your _memo.md and your enhanced notes are never opened for writing by an agent. See the MCP tool reference.

Action items are just checkboxes

There is no separate to-do list. A line like this, anywhere in any note:

- [ ] Send the pricing deck to Sarah

is an action item. Ticking it in the app changes those two characters in the file, and nothing else on the line.

Moving the folder

Settings, General, and change the notes folder.

Two rules the app enforces, because breaking either would lose notes:

• The new folder cannot be inside the old one.
• The old folder cannot be inside the new one.

Changing the folder restarts the app. Finish what you are doing first, and do not do it while a meeting is recording.

Using an Obsidian vault

Ghosty Notes reads Obsidian’s own list of vaults, so your installed vaults appear as choices when you change the notes folder. Pick one and your meeting notes are written as Markdown inside it, where Obsidian picks them up like any other file.

This is not a sync service. There is no copy, no upload and no second version. The app is simply writing into that folder directly.

Backing up

Point Time Machine, or any backup tool, at the vault folder. That is the whole of your data. It is files, so a normal backup covers it.