The last decade belonged to the cloud
Notion, Roam, Coda, Airtable nailed "easy + collaborative." The price: your data locked in proprietary shapes.
AI changes the calculus
An agent only reaches its potential when it sees most of your context. In the cloud, you upload selectively. Local-first, the context is just there.
Privacy and the AI era are the same problem
The more you want AI to see your stuff, the more you need to ensure others can’t. Local-first solves both at once.