# Will — Tell Will. What you will.

> Source of truth: https://will.trefolio.com
> License: MIT (open source)
> Repo: https://github.com/kyberis/notetaker
> Maintainers: Trefolio (https://trefolio.com)

## Summary

A Telegram-first, open-source note-taking AI assistant. Speak, write, photograph, or forward a PDF — Will sets it down, suggests a tag in a single tap, and calls you back when the appointed hour comes.

Will is a Telegram-first AI scribe for keeping a daily journal. Talk to him as you would a trusted clerk; he remembers everything, suggests a tag, and pings you back when a reminder is due.

## Features

- **Telegram-first** — Most usage happens in Telegram. Text, voice, photos, PDFs — Will renders all of them down to a tidy note. The web is a calm folio you may scroll at leisure.
- **Active reminders** — Where a note bears a date or hour, Will offers to set a Telegram bell. A cron rings the due reminders every minute — no birthdays forgotten, no farewells unsaid.
- **AI tagging** — Each new note is met with a single-tap tag suggestion: "Shall we mark this #idea, #shopping, or #reminder?" One tap or skip — your choice.
- **Multilingual** — Speak to Will in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic. The web stays in the King's tongue; the bot answers in whatever you set.
- **Privacy-first** — GDPR-compliant. Soft-delete with a thirty-day grace, full data export, no third-party trackers in the wings. Your notes are yours.
- **MIT, self-hostable** — Plain Next.js + Postgres beneath an MIT licence. Run him on Vercel, Fly, Railway, or your own bare-metal box. Optional integrations all bow gracefully when the env is bare.

## FAQ

### Why Telegram?

Because the lowest-friction note-taking interface is the chat app you already have open. No new app icon. Voice, photos, and PDFs all work out of the box.

### Where are my notes stored?

In a single Postgres database that you control if you self-host, or on the production deploy at will.trefolio.com if you use the hosted version. We store no third-party telemetry.

### Which AI model do you use?

By default, OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini via the Vercel AI Gateway, with Whisper for voice and the GPT-4o vision model for photos. You can override the chat model with AI_MODEL.

### Can I export everything?

Aye. /api/account/export returns a single JSON file with all your notes, tags, reminders, and identity metadata. No export queue, no waiting.

### Can I delete my account?

Aye — go to Settings → Delete account. We mark your account deleted immediately and hard-delete after thirty days. Sign back in within those thirty days to cancel.

### Is there a paid tier?

Not in v1. Will is free and MIT-licensed. A small Pro tier may come later for higher daily quotas or longer voice notes.


## Changelog

### v0.3.0 · 2026-05-03 — First Folio

- Reskinned the home page in a Shakespeare-Folio idiom: parchment, gilt, ink, fleuron dividers, drop-cap pitch.
- Added a “Dramatis personae” portrait section featuring the Will icon as the printer's mark.
- Cormorant Garamond + EB Garamond replace the previous display + sans pairing.

### v0.2.0 · 2026-05-03 — Editorial home & changelog page

- Redesigned landing page in Will's editorial style.
- Added a public /changelog page so what's new has a permanent home.
- New display typography across the marketing site.

### v0.1.0 · 2026-05-03 — First public release

- Telegram-first note capture: text, voice, photo, PDF.
- AI tag suggestions on every new note.
- Active reminders dispatched via Vercel cron.
- English / Spanish / Portuguese / Arabic agent replies.
- Email + Google + passkey sign-in.
- Full GDPR baseline: export + 30-day soft-delete.


## Tech stack

- Next.js 16 (App Router) on Vercel Fluid Compute
- React 19, Tailwind CSS 4
- Prisma 7 + Postgres
- Vercel AI SDK v6 + Vercel AI Gateway (multi-provider, zero data retention)
- NextAuth (credentials + Google OAuth + WebAuthn passkeys)
- Vercel Blob for files
- Telegram Bot API (text, images, voice, PDF)
- Whisper for voice transcription, OpenAI vision for photo OCR, OpenAI TTS for audio replies

## Support

- Issues: https://github.com/kyberis/notetaker/issues
- Team site: https://trefolio.com