What is Saga?
Saga is a personal AI for self-understanding. It helps you think clearer, see your patterns, and make sense of your life.
Built Around Journaling
Saga is purpose-built around journaling. Your journal becomes a timeline of your life—your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and experiences captured over time.
This is what makes Saga different from ChatGPT or other AI tools. They reset every conversation. Saga builds persistent memory in your vault—so the more you share, the better it understands you.
When you track your inner world consistently, everything else becomes clear. Your goals, relationships, habits, struggles—they're all connected. The journal is where those connections become visible.
Complete Privacy
The things you tell Saga are intimate. That's why your conversations and data are only stored on your device. No one can see your data. Not even us.
Everything is stored in plain markdown files on your Mac—files you can read, edit, back up, or delete at any time. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, we never store or train on your data.
Your files stay on your device
Stored in ~/Saga as standard markdown—open them in any text editor
Nothing stored on our servers
Conversations are processed but never retained
Independently funded
No investors pressuring us to monetize your data
Patterns You Can't See
The real problem Saga solves: you can't see your own patterns from inside them.
You might not notice that you always feel anxious on Sundays. Or that you keep having the same argument with different people. Or that your energy crashes every time you ignore your needs for too long.
But an AI that has read months of your journal can see these patterns. It becomes a mirror that shows you what's actually happening in your life—not just what you think is happening.
Getting Started
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