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We're on Product Hunt today, and the founder is in the comments until they go quiet. Here's the short version of what Harbor is and isn't, plus the questions worth asking before you move your second brain anywhere.
Sixteen of the 24 notes apps we checked now ship their own MCP server, so having one isn't the question any more. We compared what matters when you pick: whether your AI can reach it, whether it can delete, whether you can rein it in, and what you pay to get in.
Every encrypted-notes pitch skips the bill. A note your app genuinely can't read is a note it can't search, can't OCR and can't hand to your AI. We checked what five notes apps encrypt by default, and what each one gives up to do it.
Hours of monthly bookkeeping, done on a schedule by an agent, with the finished statement filed into Harbor as a note. Why a note beats a spreadsheet for this, and why the boring guardrails matter more than the AI.
No AI assistant, by design — just one small helper that names a note from what's in it. Harbor is open instead: API, CLI, and MCP, so the AI you already pay for can work with your notes.
Harbor is a private, cross-platform second brain — notes, tasks, and OCR search in fast native apps, with your data always yours to export. Here's the tour.
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