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A Markdown notebook for engineers

Write it down in a second. Find it when you need it.

Log a line from your shell or any browser, and Orbgem offers links to the services, runbooks and people it mentions. Get it back with a search, a question, or from Claude, which reads your notes over MCP.

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Solo is free. Every note stays plain Markdown you can export.

Your terminal

# every capture lands at the top of today's daily note

Mention k8s, auth, dana, pg or runbook and watch the graph.

Or try one

Your graphToday links to 0 notes

Today's timeline

  1. Nothing logged yet. Press Enter in the terminal and it lands here.

A live demo with five sample notes. The link matching is the same code the product runs.

Use cases

What engineers keep in it

Each page shows one job in detail. An orb started there begins with a Kubernetes note, an incident template and a Redis runbook to try it on.

  • Incidents and on-call

    Log from the shell mid-incident, let alerts land in the timeline, and collect the day into a write-up.

    orb · orb_last · orb_record · Alertmanager

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  • Claude and AI agents

    Claude and Claude Code read your runbooks over MCP, or your own Claude Code answers in Orbgem.

    claude mcp add · orb_claude · your own key

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  • Services and runbooks

    One note per service: links draw the dependency map, types become tables, boards lay it out.

    [[links]] · types as tables · boards

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Not on call? Orbgem keeps projects and meetings or recipes and trips the same way.

Features

From the shell to Claude, one set of notes

Everything in Orbgem is a Markdown note: daily logs, runbooks, templates, canvas boards, even the manual. There are no folders. Structure comes from links, aliases and properties.

  • Capture without leaving the shell

    orb "text" adds a line to today's daily note; pipe output into it too. orb_last saves the command you just ran as a code block.

  • Claude reads your notes

    Add Orbgem to Claude, or claude mcp add it in Claude Code, and it searches your notes, opens a runbook by name and lists your open tasks. Every tool only reads.

  • Answers from your notes, on your model

    orb_ask or Ask answers from your notes and cites them. On Sync it runs on your own Claude, GPT or Gemini key, or orb_claude lets your Claude Code answer.

  • Links that suggest themselves

    As you type, Orbgem matches whole words against note titles and aliases and offers the link. One click turns k8s into [[Kubernetes|k8s]].

  • Alerts land in the timeline

    On Sync, Alertmanager, Grafana and PagerDuty post into today's note, linked to the service's note, so each service keeps its own incident history.

  • Plain Markdown, in your own editor

    Notes are the Markdown you wrote. orb_pull writes the orb to a folder for any editor, orb_push sends edits back, and one click exports a .zip.

Omnibar⌘KorCtrl+K
Jump to any note or run a command without reaching for the mouse.
Backlinks inspector
Open a note and see its properties and every note that links to it.
Deep links
Every view and selection has an address, so a graph, a table or a note pastes into a ticket or a pull request.

How it flows

Write first. The structure shows up afterwards.

  1. 01

    Capture

    Something breaks. You write one line from the terminal you are in, or the capture box on the timeline.

    $ orb "auth-service 502s after the k8s node drain"

  2. 02

    It finds its links

    Orbgem recognises the notes the line mentions by title or alias and offers each link. Nothing to file, no folder to pick.

    + [[Auth Service]] · + [[Kubernetes]]

  3. 03

    Find it when you need it

    Next month, search for it, open Auth Service to read every line that named it, or just ask: the answer cites its note.

    $ orb_ask "why did auth-service 502 last month?"

Pricing

Free for one person

Two plans, listed in full: these are the limits the server enforces. On either, your notes export as plain Markdown.

Solo

$0free

A notebook for one engineer: shell capture, Claude over MCP, and plain Markdown you can export.

  • 1,000 notes across up to 3 orbs
  • 100 MB of storage for notes, their history, images and video
  • Terminal capture with orb
  • Read your notes from Claude and Claude Code over MCP
  • Timeline, graph and canvas
  • Live sync across tabs and terminals
  • Full-text search
  • Related notes and link suggestions
  • 10 questions a day, with 10 web searches
  • One-click Markdown export
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An email address and a password are all it takes.

Sync

$8per user / month

For engineers whose alerts, terminals and teammates all write into the same orb.

  • Unlimited notes in up to 25 orbs
  • 10 GB of storage for notes, images and video, up to 1 GB of it note text
  • Bring your own Claude, GPT or Gemini key
  • Alert webhooks from Alertmanager, Grafana and PagerDuty
  • 25 API tokens for machines and CI
  • Read your notes from Claude and Claude Code over MCP
  • Invite your team into shared orbs, each with a role
  • Ask with no daily limit and 60 web searches a day
  • Tidy and Explain any note; Distill a day into a write-up
  • Nightly suggestions: links, names, types and tags your notes support
  • More room for images and video: +10 GB for $2 a month, up to 20 times

Make a free account, then upgrade from Settings → Plan. Billed monthly through Stripe; cancel any time.

Log the next thing that happens

Create an orb, install orb, and write one line from your shell. It will be findable before you have decided where it belongs.

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