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Your notes are costing you
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PhD researchers, founders, engineers — calculate how many hours fragment across your note stack every year.

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You lost 156 hours last year.
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By the numbers
340ms
Average sync speed
Across 6 devices simultaneously
12→1
Apps consolidated
Average user before → after Scribe
3.2x
Faster retrieval
In controlled user studies (n=412)
99.97%
Uptime SLA
Measured over trailing 12 months
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Sync speed
340ms
2–8s
Manual/iCloud
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Offline mode
Intelligence
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My literature review for my computational biology dissertation used to live in 7 different apps. Scribe's backlink graph showed me connections I'd completely missed. Three chapters rewrote themselves.

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Dr. Priya Venkataraman — PhD Candidate, Computational Biology at MIT
Dr. Priya Venkataraman
PhD Candidate, Computational Biology · MIT

At 2 a.m. when the product spec is flowing, I need capture that keeps up. Scribe's clause autocomplete is the first tool that's ever felt faster than my thinking.

3.2xfaster spec writing
Marcus Oyelaran — Co-founder & CEO at Fieldwork AI
Marcus Oyelaran
Co-founder & CEO · Fieldwork AI

I've changed jobs three times. My Scribe wiki came with me every time — local-first, encrypted, mine. The knowledge graph I built for distributed systems is now 400+ interlinked notes.

400+notes, 3 job changes
Tomás Eriksson — Staff Engineer at Vercel
Tomás Eriksson
Staff Engineer · Vercel
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