JaRoet Outliner: initial release announcement

Posted by jaroet
Jan 14, 2026 at 07:14 AM

Hello cicerosc,

Thanks for you kind words. I must confess that I moved on to creating another tool that has the same focus as JaRoet Outliner had and it is called JaRoet PKM. More info about that project is available at https://jaroet.github.io/JaRoet-PKM/.

JaRoet Outliner was a first POC I did with using AI coding support. That proved to work very nicely. I thought again about what I really miss in the PKM space and I ended up that having insight in the relations between subjects/notes is the most important part for me. Not so much the notes itself, although they are a core essential element but I want to know what relates to what. For keeping notes there are many tools available already.

So JaRoet PKM is just that. A tool that stores notes and the relationships to and from that note. The relationships are the core part and take up most of the GUI as you can see in the screenshot on the site I mentioned above. The notes have full markdown support also.

The state of JaRoet PKM is a lot further then JaRoet Outliner ever was. It has support for multiple ‘vaults’, has themes and I am currently working on integrating ‘attachments’ or links to files using attachment sources (like interwiki links but with the local filesystem).

The main reasons for building JaRoet Outliner are the same for JaRoet PKM. Free to use, no install needed other then unzipping a ZIP file, no cloud storage. I write about my reasons to build JaRoet PKM here ... https://github.com/jaroet/jaroet-pkm?tab=readme-ov-file#reasons-why-i-build-it

It is most likely that when you liked the setup of JaRoet Outliner you most likely willwill like JaRoet PKM.

I would love to get you feedback about JaRoet PKM also and whether you prefer the one or the other. or what you find missing in PKM for example.
I have not completely stopped with the Outliner but for now the PKM is my main focus (in the spare time I have) as it fits more in my personal daily use.

I use PKM now for about a month in my personal space (and work) and it is very stable in my experience. Just make sure you make backups (exports JSON) regular as the IndexedDB DB is linked you your browser history. If you clean that you also clean your vault data.

Regards, Jaroet