For serious writers

The writing environment
for people who think.

Taralipi holds your research, your arguments, your contradictions — and your manuscript — in one connected space. Not a word processor. Not a note app. Something built for the long work.

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Local-first. Your work stays on your machine. No subscription required to open your own files.

The Problem

Your tools weren't built for
the work you're doing.

Every serious writer eventually hits the same wall. The tools were designed for something simpler.

Your research is everywhere.
Notion, Apple Notes, browser tabs, a physical notebook, a voice memo you can't find. 200 sources, none of them connected to what you've written.
Your manuscript doesn't know what you know.
You're the only bridge between your notes and your draft. Every time you sit down, you have to rebuild that bridge from memory.
Your ideas are more complex than your tools.
The book is a web. Every tool makes you write it like a line. The dependencies don't respect chapter order. The knowledge graph in your head has no software equivalent.
The Old Way
  • Draft in one app
  • Research in another
  • Notes in a third
  • Sources in a fourth
  • You, holding it all together in your head
  • Losing the thread every time you step away
Taralipi
  • Draft, research, and knowledge graph in one space
  • Every source linked to every claim
  • Every concept tracked across your manuscript
  • Local-first — your files, your machine
  • Built for 100,000 words the same as 1,000
  • Returns you to where you were, every time

The Process

How Taralipi Works

Three things working in parallel — the way serious writing actually happens.

01
chapter_04.md

Write in depth

A distraction-free environment built for long-form. Chapters, sections, 100,000-word manuscripts. Nothing between you and the work.

02
thesis.md
✦ Thinking Partner

Think with it

Not autocomplete. A thinking partner that knows your whole project — every argument, every source, every contradiction you've flagged.

03
Chapter 4 Source 12 Argument Evidence Citation

Knowledge stays connected

Everything you know about your subject — sources, notes, ideas — linked to everything you've written. The graph compounds over time.

Writing Experience

Your thinking environment.
Always in flow.

Taralipi puts your thinking partner beside your writing — not in a separate tab, not in a different app. It knows your whole project. It surfaces the contradiction in chapter 3 when you're writing chapter 7. It never makes you rebuild context from scratch.

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ch04_attention_mechanisms.md
Attention Is Not Memory
The transformer doesn't store information — it learns to
attend to it. This distinction matters more than most
introductions to the subject acknowledge, because it changes
✦ Thinking Partner

You defined "attention" differently in Ch.2 (p.34). Worth aligning — or make the distinction explicit here.

Source 12 (Vaswani et al.) has a passage directly relevant to this distinction. Insert citation?

This argument is the setup for your RLHF section in Ch.9 — flagging the dependency.

Knowledge Graph

See how your
ideas connect.

Every source, note, and argument linked to the passages in your manuscript that use them. See what you know, where you've used it, and what's still unresolved.

  • ◆ Every source linked to every claim
  • ◆ Contradictions surfaced automatically
  • ◆ Compounds knowledge across your whole project

Features

What it actually does.

No superlatives. No vague promises. Here's what Taralipi is built to do.

Thinking Partner
Does my argument in Chapter 5 hold up against the counterargument in my notes from Kahneman?
✦ "Your Ch.5 argument relies on fast-system priming — Kahneman's Note 34 in your research directly challenges this. You've flagged the tension but haven't resolved it. Want me to surface the relevant passages?"
Yes, and show me everywhere I've cited Kahneman across the manuscript.
✦ Found 7 citations across Ch.2, Ch.5, Ch.8, and your appendix...
01

Thinking Partner

Not autocomplete. An intelligence that knows your whole project — every argument, every source, every contradiction you've flagged. Ask it anything about your own work.

  • Knows your entire manuscript and research
  • Surfaces tensions and unresolved questions
  • Works with Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini
02

Knowledge Graph

Everything you know about your subject, connected to everything you've written about it. Navigate your thinking spatially. Discover connections your brain missed at 2am.

  • Sources linked to claims automatically
  • Interactive spatial navigation
  • Compounds knowledge over the whole project
sources.bib
APA

Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Chicago

Vaswani, A., et al. "Attention Is All You Need." NeurIPS (2017): 5998–6008.

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MLA

Hofstadter, Douglas R. Gödel, Escher, Bach...

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Citation Support

Your sources, linked to your claims. Every one. APA, MLA, Chicago — formatted correctly and inserted with one click. Stop doing this by hand.

  • APA, MLA, Chicago, and more
  • One-click insertion into your text
  • Every citation linked in your knowledge graph

Who It's For

Built for the writer who already
knows this is hard.

Taralipi is not for everyone. It's for the writer managing serious complexity over a long project.

The Textbook Author
Writing the definitive account of a field. Citations need to be right. Structure needs to hold across 400 pages. Readers will use this for years. You need tools at that level.
The Pop Science Writer
You've read 80 papers so you can explain one idea clearly. You need your research connected to your prose — not sitting in a separate folder you dig through every session.
The Essayist
Your best ideas come from unexpected connections between things you've read over years. You need a tool that sees those connections too — not just a place to store text.
The Narrative Nonfiction Writer
You're managing characters, timelines, sources, and a central argument — all at once. You need structure without rigidity. A system that holds the whole thing.
The Academic Writing a Trade Book
You know the material. You're learning to write for a wider audience. You need a space that respects both the depth of your knowledge and the reader's time.
The Deep Thinker
You don't write for a genre. You write because you have something to work out. You need a thinking environment — not a publishing pipeline. Taralipi is that.

Where it came from

Something arrived.

Not software designed by committee. Not a feature list assembled from user surveys. Something stranger — an intelligence that found a typewriter and decided this was where it belonged.

Taralipi came from a simple observation: the writers doing the most serious work — textbooks, pop science, long-form essays, the books that take years — have been abandoned by their tools. Word processors were built for documents. Note apps were built for fragments. Nothing was built for the thing in between: a mind managing an enormous, growing, contradictory body of knowledge while also trying to write.

Taralipi is that tool. Local-first, so your work stays yours. A knowledge graph, so nothing you've learned gets lost. A writing environment that disappears when you're writing well and shows up when you need it.

It was made for the writer who was already doing all of this — just without proper help.

Some things shouldn't be fast. Some work deserves tools that match its depth.

Pricing

Simple. Honest. No tricks.

Taralipi is a one-time purchase. Not a subscription. Your work stays on your machine — you own your files, forever, regardless of whether you keep paying anyone.

Early Access

$49 one-time
  • Full Taralipi app
  • Knowledge graph
  • AI thinking partner (bring your own key)
  • Citation support — APA, MLA, Chicago
  • Local-first, your files stay yours
  • All future updates included
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Best Value

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$149 one-time
  • Everything in Early Access
  • Priority feature requests
  • Direct access to the team
  • Early access to every future product
  • Your name in the acknowledgements
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  • Everything in Lifetime
  • Shared knowledge graphs
  • Research library for your team
  • Priority support
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