blog

Updates, guides, and behind-the-scenes from the team.

story5 min

Why we built yoinko

We wanted a notes app that stayed out of the way, kept files on our own disk, and treated AI as a tool — not the product. Here's the story.

guide4 min

Bring your own LLM — how and why

Yoinko doesn't lock you into one AI provider. Use OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Ollama, or anything OpenAI-compatible. We explain the architecture.

opinion6 min

Local-first is not a compromise

Your files on your disk is not a limitation — it's a feature. We break down why local-first beats cloud-only for knowledge work.

feature3 min

AI image generation in your notes

Describe an image in the chat, and yoinko creates it via DALL-E, Imagen, or your own endpoint. Here's how it works under the hood.

guide3 min

From zero to running in 60 seconds

One curl command. One npm run dev. That's it. A walkthrough of our setup script and why we made onboarding dead simple.