Folio I
The Codex
A digital codex for scripture, sermons, and daily notes.
Marginalia · live demo
~/studies/topical/sermon on love.md
topics: [love, homiletics, 1-john]
Any honest sermon on love has to begin where the Bible begins it — not in feelings, not in preference, but in the character of God. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” — so writes [[John
The pulpit’s first job, then, is not to make the congregation love God more. It is to open the scripture so that they see Him first.
as you type [[ the suggester opens — Bible refs and notes in one popover
Bible references become live links automatically — just write John 3:16 in plain prose and the app finds it. Type [[ to connect to your own notes like [[Providence]] or [[Sermon — When God Feels Absent]].
Folio II
Or: why we built this
instead of another
markdown editor.
Last year’s study in Apple Notes. Highlights in a reading app. Margin scribbles in three different journals. The observation you loved from six months ago, buried somewhere you can’t find. Your Bible study is distributed — across apps that don’t talk to each other.
Proprietary databases. Opaque formats. Annual subscriptions that hold your history hostage. Close the laptop, cancel the plan, and a decade of thinking evaporates. The tools that promised to help you think outlive your subscription by nothing.
The note you took on Romans 8 last winter and the thought you had reading Genesis 50 today are the same thought. The sermon you drafted is the essay you always wanted to write. You’ll never see it unless a tool shows you.
A promise, before we show the tool
The whole system is designed around one sentence on the right.
Open your Bible-study notes next week, next year,or ten years from now — and trace every verse, every connection, every half-thought back to exactly where you left it.
Plain markdown files that any editor can read. A graph that remembers the web of references you built. Auto-snapshots going back seven days, and a folder on your disk that you control forever. Nothing to retrieve from a dead service. Nothing locked in an account you forgot.
Folio III
The Scriptorium
The editor surface.
The editor gets out of your way. Callouts, linked notes, and Bible references render beautifully as you type — and the raw markdown is always one keystroke away when you want it. No toolbar hunting. No mode switching. Just writing, the way it should feel.
The Scriptorium · a real note
Six affordances beneath the surface
Type / to insert a callout, a template, a verse, a reading-plan marker. The popover filters as you type.
[[Jonah]] links to every note that mentions Jonah. The right sidebar shows every mention of this note, grouped by source.
> [!warning] renders inline, keeps the raw syntax a keystroke away.
Select a passage in the chapter reader. One click drops a fully-formed verse note into the topic folder of your choice.
Extract selection into a new note. Merge two notes. Jump to a random one. The commands you reach for, named what you’d expect.
Drag a PDF, paste a screenshot, record a sermon’s audio in-place—all stored as attachments beside your notes.
Folio IV
The Canon
Scripture is the structure your notes hang on.
Most note apps treat the Bible as another PDF to import. BibleGraph treats the canon as the addressable spine of the whole system — verses, chapters, and books are searchable, linkable, capture-able entities baked into the app. Search any word across all 66 books, open the matching verses in a split beside your notes, and drop a linked study note in a single keystroke.
Split pane · scripture + study, side by side
Type “love” into the scripture bar. Every matching verse in every book. Keep your study open on the right, the search results on the left, and let verses jump into notes as you write.
Canon heatmap · your study
reflects only your notes · never global averages · never telemetry
Six ways scripture is native, not bolted on
The entire King James Version ships with the app. Zero downloads, zero API keys, zero per-call quotas. Open a chapter, read offline on a plane, on a train, at a campsite. More translations are on the way.
Not a Bible tool bolted on—a first-class reading surface with verse-level selection, drag-to-note capture, and margin dots that light up where your notes live.
Write John 3:16 or 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 in plain prose — no brackets, no special syntax. BibleGraph reads every canonical book name and abbreviation and turns the reference into a live link. Hover to peek at the verse, click to open the chapter. The friction is zero because there is no friction.
A 66-book thermal map of your Bible study—not global telemetry, not a community average. See which corners of scripture you return to and which are gathering dust.
M’Cheyne, chronological, Sabbath-school lectionary. Mark a day complete and the plan tracks your progress locally. Nothing phones home.
Select John 1:1-5 in the reader. Press capture. A new note is born with front-matter, verse text, and a topic tag pre-filled from the folder you dropped it into.
Folio V
Constellations
Every note becomes a node. Every link becomes an edge.
Over months and years, your notes form clusters—themes you return to, characters you love, questions that won’t let you go. The graph shows you what your writing has been saying the whole time. The view is your studyalone — never a community average, never someone else’s canon.
Local graph · the topic “Creation”
The local graph view pulls one idea into focus. Here: every note, verse reference, and sub-topic connected to Creation — Genesis 1–2, Psalms 104, Hebrews 11:3, Revelation 14:7, The Image of God, Six Literal Days. The graph draws itself from the links you already wrote.
What the graph gives you
Clusters form around topics automatically. No tagging ceremony, no rigid schema — the algorithm notices.
Show only what connects to the current note. Useful for sermon prep when you want to see just this passage’s web.
Hide everything that isn’t Pauline. Or just 2 Corinthians. Or only notes from this year.
Per-node charge + forceX/Y constraints we’ve tuned for readability on large studies. Clusters pull apart, crowded zones breathe.
Your folder structure becomes the colour system. Customisable if you’d prefer your own palette.
Rendered with PixiJS off the main thread, 5,000 nodes at 60fps, zero lag while you keep writing in another pane.
Folio VI · The Architecture
You shouldn’t need to learn a new markup language to take a note. The syntax is hidden by default; the power is a keystroke away.
No rigid database. Your folders are your topics. Put a note in Pauline Epistles/, and it’s a Pauline study. Move it, and it’s not. Markdown-native, zero learning curve, the way computers have worked for fifty years.
Verse Study · Character Study · Topical Study · Sermon Notes · Book Overview · Blank. Variables like {{book}}, {{verseText}}, {{today}} are pre-filled by the app. No JavaScript. No config files.
Quick Switcher for files (⌘O). Command Palette for actions (⌘P). Full-text search panel for contents. All fuzzy, all fast, all local-first.
text, number, boolean, date, datetime, list. The properties panel renders typed chips. Your metadata is queryable, the YAML stays human.
Drag a tab between panes. Split left-right or top-bottom. Navigate back/forward per pane. The workspace remembers exactly where you were when you last closed the app.
Extract selection into a new note. Merge two notes. Jump to a random one. Commands you’ll reach for, named what you’d expect.
inset · slash commands
Type /mid-sentence and the slash menu opens. Attach a file, insert a bullet list, drop a code block, mark a divider, add a hidden comment — every formatting and insertion primitive is one keystroke away, without ever leaving the flow of your writing.
→ screenshot: slash menu filtering Attach / Audio / Bold / Bullet list…
Folio VII
A Covenant
A covenant with your data.
No proprietary database. No walled garden. Your notes live as markdown files in folders on your disk — the same folders Finder, Windows Explorer, and the terminal have always shown you. Open one in any editor. Zip the whole thing up. Back it up like any other folder.
A real study · seen from Finder
This is how BibleGraph actually stores your work. Not in a hidden database, not in an app-specific bundle — in folders, with names you chose, that every operating system on earth can read.
Three commitments, embedded in every line of code
Your notes are plain markdown in folders on your disk. Open them in iA Writer. Open them in VS Code. Grep them from the terminal. Zip them up and email them to a colleague.
The desktop app is fully offline-capable. You can take a thousand notes without ever seeing a signup wall, an email form, or a trial clock.
Conflicts show side-by-side duplicates. File recovery writes a snapshot every five minutes, keeps them for seven days, and stores them outside your study. Your history is defended.
Four promises the architecture enforces
markdown-native
Point any markdown editor at the same folder. Your connections, tags, and frontmatter Just Work.
5min · 7d
Snapshots every 5 min, kept 7 days, stored outside the study. Restore one file or roll back the whole body of work.
no network required
The desktop app never needs a network. Open your laptop in a cabin and keep writing.
.md · forever
Zero proprietary databases. Migrate to any markdown tool without converting a single file.
Folio VIII · The Price
Every feature on this page is available today at no cost, with no account required. Download the desktop app, open a folder, and start writing. Nothing to unlock, nothing to trial, nothing to compare.
Your notes stay on your disk. You don’t owe us anything to keep using them.
Folio IX · For whom it is written
If you’ve ever wanted to mark a verse and come back to it three weeks later without hunting, keep a daily note that isn’t locked in an app store, or write your way through a book of the Bible over the course of a year — you’re the target user. No denominational preference. No career clergy requirement. Just a folder, a few notes, and time.
BibleGraph was built by people tired of watching their scripture notes scatter across apps that come and go. The shape of it — a folder of plain markdown, verses that open in a click, a graph that notices when your thinking converges — turns out to be the shape a lot of readers, students, and ministers have been looking for.
You read a chapter, a phrase catches you, you scribble a half-thought and move on. Weeks later the margin dot reminds you the thought was there. No obligation to write a full note. The app won’t nag.
Open the app, hit new note, write what today felt like. Tomorrow’s note knows about today’s. The graph quietly assembles itself while you’re not looking.
Character studies, topical studies, Greek parsing notes, research for an essay. Six templates to start with, 66 books native, Bible references auto-detected in plain prose. Everything exports as plain text.
Outlines, manuscripts, research notes, reading-plan progress—all in plain files on your disk. Pulpit-ready on Sunday, exportable on Monday.
Build a study folder, share a zip, watch collaborators open the same markdown in whatever editor they prefer. No account walls between you and the people you’re discipling.
Not every Bible reader is in ministry. Some people just want a quiet, well-made place to put what they read and keep. The whole app, free, on your disk, forever.
We will not hide scripture behind a paywall. We will not lock your notes into our database. We will not sell what you write to advertisers. These are not marketing lines—they’re the reason the app was built.
6
bundled templates
66
books of the canon, native
5 000
notes in the graph at 60 fps
7 days
of file-recovery snapshots