macOS · local-first

Your second brain,
one keystroke away.

control+shift+2two

Press it anywhere — Ctrl+Brain captures the text, image, or screenshot in front of you, reads it on your Mac, and saves it to your second brain.

Three steps, one shortcut

01 — 03

01

Capture

Text, images, and screenshots — saved with one global shortcut, from anywhere on your Mac.

02

Understand

Apple Vision OCRs the pixels and a local model describes them. Everything stays on-device.

03

Remember

One editable Markdown brain that local MCP agents can read, search, and append to. Supermemory sync is optional.

A second brain should be a keystroke —
not another app to open.

How it works

Select, press, understand, remember — and the file stays yours, in plain Markdown.

01

Select anything

Highlight text, copy an image, or trigger it on any screen.

02

Press ⌃⇧2

The selection is read via the Accessibility API — globally, in any app.

03

Understood on-device

Vision OCRs images; a local Claude/Codex model describes them. Nothing leaves your Mac.

04

Saved locally

Appended to your editable second brain, available to local MCP agents, and synced to Supermemory only if you add a key.