Graphophone — Notes https://graphophone.app/blog Long-form posts from the Graphophone team on privacy, on-device AI, and the craft of personal-software product design. en-us Why local-first journaling is the only journaling worth doing https://graphophone.app/blog/why-local-first-journaling https://graphophone.app/blog/why-local-first-journaling Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hosted journaling apps know too much. Here's why we built Graphophone as a vault on your device, and what that costs us as a product company. Why we bet on a tiny model that ships with the app https://graphophone.app/blog/the-bundled-model-bet https://graphophone.app/blog/the-bundled-model-bet Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A 0.5B-parameter model is small, slow, and not very smart. Here's why it's still the right default.