Viroke Technologies Inc
Support
Help for installing and using Mentide, from Viroke Technologies Inc. Write to [email protected].
How to reach us
Mentide is published by Viroke Technologies Inc. Write to [email protected] and include the macOS version from Apple menu → About This Mac, the disk image filename you installed, and what you expected to happen. A short description of the screen in front of you is enough.
Support mail is read by Viroke. The message should describe the app, not paste your journal. We do not receive your notes from the desktop app, so a copy of a private page in the email is the only way that writing leaves your Mac.
Installing on a Mac
Download the disk image from the Downloads page on this site, or from the GitHub release linked there. Open the disk image and drag Mentide into the Applications folder. The app is free for life. There is no account to create before the first page.
If macOS asks you to confirm an app that came from the internet, check that the disk image is the one from this site or from that GitHub release, then open Mentide from Applications.
Apple Silicon and Intel
There are two Mac installers. Apple Silicon is the build for M1, M2, M3, M4, and later chips. Intel is the build for Intel-based Macs. The Downloads page names both files.
Open Apple menu → About This Mac when you are unsure. An M-series chip uses the Apple Silicon disk image. Any other Mac processor uses the Intel disk image. Installing the wrong one is the usual reason a fresh download will not open.
Today's page
Mentide opens on today's page, a canvas already dated for the day you are in. Write the thought before you invent a title. Morning notes, mid-day captures, and an evening review can share that page.
When a topic outgrows the day, create a freeform note and leave a link behind on today's page. The day stays light. The library holds the work you mean to keep.
Wiki links
Type [[ in the editor to search notes you already have. Prefix matches come first. An empty query shows recent items. Press the up and down arrows to move, then Enter or Tab to insert the link. Choose create when the title is new.
Link a person, a project, or a theme when you expect to meet it again. A wiki link is a breadcrumb inside the sentence. Sparse links stay useful. A link on every noun makes the map harder to read later.
The notes library
Daily pages hold the moment. Freeform notes hold essays, research threads, project canvases, and decision logs that should outlive a single day. The Notes library shows them in a grid with short previews.
Create a note from Notes by giving it a title. The editor is the same one as today's page. Titles and first lines are how you will find the note next month, so name it for retrieval. If a card no longer earns its place, archive or delete it.
The graph
The graph is a map of attention. Nodes are notes and linked items. Edges are the wiki links you made while writing. Pan and zoom until a cluster is readable, then click a node when you want the prose again.
Open it when one note feels too small, or after a dense week, before you start another blank page. It is an orientation view. It is not a score, and it does not require a dense web of weak links to be worth opening.
Profiles
A profile is a separate local space. Use one for work thinking and another for a personal journal when those streams should not share a library. Each profile has its own today's page, notes, and graph.
Switch profiles when you switch roles. Mixing both lives into one library makes search and the graph noisier. Creating another profile is the supported way to keep a boundary.
Where your notes live
Notes, profiles, and the links between them are stored in SQLite on your Mac. There is no account and no default sync. Writing does not upload a cloud copy. The marketing site does not collect the contents of your journal.
Backups are copies you make yourself: export or copy the local data to a place you control. Uninstalling Mentide, or deleting its local data through macOS, removes the store on that Mac. Email support cannot restore a journal, because Viroke never received it.
Updates and source
New Mac builds are published as GitHub releases and listed on the Downloads page. Replace the copy in Applications with the newer disk image for your chip. Your notes stay in the local database across that replacement.
The app is open source at https://github.com/wilforlan/mentide. You can read how storage works and build from source. Questions about a release, a download, or a page on this site still go to [email protected].