Jira, Linear and Notion track the team's work. None of them track yours — the follow-ups you are owed, the approver you need to catch, the project nobody has touched in three weeks. Neo is the layer above them that holds it instead.
Status reports go stale the day after you write them. The loud project takes your attention while the quiet one rots. You delegated it three weeks ago and never followed up. Reloading a project you have not touched costs twenty minutes before you can say anything useful. Neo is built for one constraint: it must survive neglect. Capture is cheap, almost nothing needs upkeep, and every screen stays useful when the data is a month old.
Today gathers everything overdue, due and coming up from every project in the workspace, and Needs a look ranks the projects by the single most pressing fact about each. Staleness counts, so the one nobody has mentioned in a month surfaces before it surprises you.
Every project has a cast: who is on it, the roles they actually hold, who approves what, and a line on how to work with them. Read it in the thirty seconds before the meeting.
Opening a project you have been away from starts with a re-entry brief: what changed since you last looked, where it stands in one sentence, and the work that is actually late or due. Back in the conversation in thirty seconds.
Every feature exists because of a specific way project management goes wrong when you run several at once. None of them need you to be diligent.
Opening a project starts with what changed since you last looked, what is overdue, what you are owed and by whom. Reloading it stops costing twenty minutes.
Overdue work, deadline proximity and staleness are computed and stated in plain words. There is no status field anywhere, on purpose.
Projects ranked by the most pressing fact about each. The quiet one that has not moved surfaces before it becomes a problem.
Work you handed to someone else stays on your board and in your Today list, with an owner and a date. You chase from a list, not from memory.
Who is on it, what they decide, and how to work with them. Who signs off the release, who says yes and means maybe.
What was decided, by whom, the reasoning, and the options that lost. Six weeks later, the rejected option is the half that comes back, usually brought by whoever lost the argument.
Write the notes as prose. The to-dos inside them become real items on the board, owned and dated, counted as still owed until they are done. "Priya: error states by Friday" stops being a sentence in a document nobody opens again.
Notes, journal, decisions, meetings and transcripts are rewritten to Markdown on disk on every change. If you get hit by a bus, or just go on holiday, it is all readable without this app.
Both sides of the call, with nothing to install. Every step writes its result down before the next begins, so a crash or a flat battery costs you a second of audio, never the meeting.
The microphone plus what the computer is playing, through a native Core Audio tap on macOS. Audio is appended to disk every second and rolled into a new file every five minutes.
Starts on its own when you stop. Each five-minute part is written down before the next begins, so it resumes where it got to after sleep or a crash.
A language model reads the transcript and attributes the turns. It says so honestly: attributed, not diarised.
Small talk and agenda restatements thrown away. The recap is appended to the write-up as ordinary Markdown you can edit, and an untitled meeting is given a name.
Everyone who said out loud that they would do something now has a to-do with their name on it, counted as owing on Today. Nothing to press.
A client's conversations can be transcribed and summarised entirely on your own Mac while the day job's go to OpenAI. Audio and words are set separately.
Everything lives in one folder in your home directory: a real PostgreSQL database running inside the app, and a Markdown mirror of everything you have written. No server, no Docker, nothing to start.
~/.neo/├── db/ # embedded PostgreSQL├── markdown/ # mirror of everything you wrote│ ├── Checkout rewrite/│ │ ├── overview.md│ │ ├── decisions.md│ │ └── meetings/2026-09-02 Steering.md│ └── Payments migration/├── recordings/ # ordinary Opus files, 5 min each├── icons/├── attachments/└── exports/ # JSON, on demand
An assistant inside the app, and a connector for Claude Desktop. Both use Neo's own code paths, so a task created in conversation is logged, mirrored and counted like one you typed.
"What am I owed on the checkout rewrite?" It reads only the workspace you asked in, on your own OpenAI key, and every write is a question first: a sentence with names resolved and dates checked, and nothing happens until you answer.
Talk to your projects from Claude Desktop. The connector installs with one click from Settings, never opens the database itself, and speaks to Neo over a local socket, so a task made there is the same task, logged and mirrored, as one made in the app.
Free, MIT licensed, and yours to build from source if you would rather not run an unsigned binary. The first launch offers sample data so you can look around before putting anything of your own in.
The builds are not code-signed (there is no Apple Developer certificate and no Windows EV certificate behind a free project), so the operating system objects the first time. macOS: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Neo.app once. Windows: More info → Run anyway.
git clone https://github.com/Johannett321/neo.git cd neo npm install && npm run dist
