Your space.
Your data.

Notes live on your computer.

Barside stores notes, bookmarks, media, preferences, and assistant memory in your Windows user profile. The desktop app does not require a Barside account and does not implement automatic cloud synchronization or product analytics.

Notes and ordinary ZIP backups are not encrypted by Barside. Protect them with your computer's security controls and keep backups somewhere appropriate for their contents.

You choose when to use AI.

Local AI features use models on your computer after setup. If you select a cloud API provider, relevant requests, tool results, memories, and requested screenshots may be sent to that provider. Its data policies apply.

Memory is optional and can be reviewed or removed. It learns from assistant interactions; it does not passively read all your apps, messages, or browsing history.

Your library is searchable by choice.

Library AI indexes included notes, bookmark titles and URLs, saved webpage text, transcript text, and locally generated screenshot descriptions. Embeddings and screenshot reading stay on your computer. Password vault entries, API keys, assistant memory, and bookmark account labels are not part of this search index.

Use Library → Sources to exclude a workspace or note. Sensitive text written directly into an included note can still be retrieved. If cloud reasoning is selected, matching excerpts and meeting transcripts are sent to your configured provider for answers and analysis. Exclusion cannot retract data already received by a provider.

Page downloads do not use your browser cookies. You can paste text from signed-in pages you want to save. Saved text, screenshot descriptions, meeting reviews, and task notes are included in ordinary ZIP backups. The derived search cache stays local and rebuilds after migration. Meeting follow-up drafts are saved as notes and are not sent automatically.

MCP connections have boundaries.

Each connection can access only the workspaces you select, subject to individual note exclusions. New notes in selected workspaces are included unless excluded. Connections are read-only by default, with optional write permissions.

MCP tools do not expose the password vault, saved API credentials, media attachments, assistant memory, or desktop controls. Note text, transcripts, bookmark URLs, and optional account labels can still be sensitive.

Temporary web connections route through Cloudflare. The selected AI provider processes the content it requests. Revocation stops future access; it cannot withdraw copies already received by a provider.

Passwords are stored separately.

The native login vault uses Windows encryption for your Windows account and stays outside your note library and normal ZIP exports. This does not protect against malicious software already running as that same Windows user.

Moving passwords to another computer requires the vault's separate encrypted export and a backup password. Login filling is available for supported browser forms and does not automatically submit them.

Recording and screen context are explicit features.

Call transcription can capture microphone and computer audio. Saved recordings and transcripts become note attachments and content. Computer audio can include other apps, so tell participants before recording and check what is playing.

Screen context captures the requested window or monitor. Voice wake-up is optional; it is not speaker identification and cannot guarantee zero false activations.

This website and downloads.

barside.space is hosted on Vercel. Installer files are delivered by Vercel Blob. These services process connection information needed to deliver the website and downloads, such as IP addresses and request details.

This site does not add advertising trackers, analytics scripts, signup forms, or marketing cookies. The interactive preview uses only temporary page state.

Infrastructure providers have their own policies: Vercel privacy policy and Cloudflare privacy policy.

Export, remove, or disconnect.

Manage notes and workspaces in Barside. Export your library in Settings. Manage memories in Assistant settings, logins in Passwords, and MCP access in Connect Barside to AI. Old backups retain the content they contained when created.

This page describes the current product's behavior. Last updated September 23, 2026.