Rowboat

Rowboat is a local-first desktop AI coworker that indexes your work into a living Obsidian-style backlinked knowledge graph. It includes built-in work surfaces for collaborating with AI: an email client that auto-drafts responses using work context, a built-in browser isolated from your main browser, a meeting note-taker with live transcription, and a code mode for parallel coding agents.

Unlike most AI tools that reconstruct context on demand, Rowboat maintains long-lived knowledge that compounds over time. Context accumulates, relationships are explicit and inspectable, notes are editable by you, and everything lives on your machine as plain Markdown. It supports bring-your-own-model (Ollama, LM Studio, or any API), MCP tool integrations, and background agents that run on events or schedules.