The Harbor blog
Building a second brain you can trust.
Notes from the team building Harbor — in public, in writing, and in plain English.
August 6, 2026
A second brain and a second set of hands
How and where you use your notes is your call. Here’s what that looks like when your coding agent can both write to your second brain and read from it.
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August 1, 2026
Harbor is here
The doors are open. Harbor launches on Mac, Windows, the web, and the Web Clipper — private by design, exportable forever, and never held hostage. Here’s everything that’s live today.
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July 11, 2026
Our price promise
The Harbor price promise, written down in public: $9.99 a month or $99 a year, locked for three years, capped after that, never held hostage.
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July 4, 2026
Bring your own AI
Why Harbor ships no built-in AI, and how the open API, the harbor CLI, an agent skill, and MCP let the AI you already trust work your notes.
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June 26, 2026
How OCR search works in Harbor
Harbor reads the words inside your photos, scans, and recordings, then highlights the exact match on the page. Here’s how it works.
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June 14, 2026
What a second brain actually needs
Strip away the marketing and a second brain has five real requirements. Most tools in this category traded them away, one at a time.
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June 5, 2026
Move from Evernote in one step
A practical guide to leaving Evernote: export your notes as ENEX, import them into Harbor, and keep your notebooks, tags, and attachments intact.
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May 24, 2026
Building Harbor in public
Why Harbor is being built in the open: honest progress notes, a public price promise, and a blog that chronicles the road to launch.
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May 16, 2026
Why we're building Harbor
The letter that started Harbor: what happened to Evernote, what a second brain owes you, and the nine commitments we’re building on.
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