VERTEXPACEMAC APP · V1.3.9
Private study & life companion

NOVA CHAT

A private study and life companion that plans your days, tracks what you actually know, and talks back — all on your Mac. No cloud account, no subscription, no telemetry.

Inside Nova

How it looks

Three screens from the real app — Nova always reachable with a keystroke, a home screen that tells you what tonight looks like, and a live dashboard for what you know and what's due.

Command Lamp

Press ⌘K from anywhere. Nova floats in, answers, gets out of the way.

Nova
Ask Nova anything…
You're free 2–4pm today — want me to block Chem revision then?
Tonight's Brief

One card tells you what tonight looks like the second you open the app.

Nova
Good evening, Zac
Chem revision at 7pm · ABN renewal still open
✨ Ask Nova
💬 Chat
📅 Planner
Widget Board

Your Sky, Planner and Behaviour, live and visible at once.

Nova
✨ Your Sky
14 concepts learned · 3 need review
📅 Planner
ABN renewal — due tomorrow
4-day
study streak
What's inside

Everything Nova does

Private chat

Local AI models, auto-picked per task — nothing you say leaves your Mac unless you turn on the optional cloud brain.

Your Sky

A knowledge graph you can see — every concept marked solid, shaky, or untested, with gentle study sessions on the gaps.

Planner that schedules itself

Give Nova an assignment and it breaks the work into steps, then places them on your calendar at the hours you actually learn best.

Acts, not just chats

Say a task is done in plain words and it comes off your plate. Every action it takes is logged and reversible.

Voice + dictation

Offline macOS voices read replies aloud; hands-free dictation mode lets you talk instead of type.

Multiple people, one Mac

Each person gets their own Nova with its own memory — nobody sees anyone else’s sky.

Plain local files

Everything Nova knows lives in files you can read and export — one-click backup, one-click move to another Mac.

Optional cloud brain

Bring your own Anthropic key for deeper reasoning when you want it. Off by default, stored locally, never shared.

Requirements

What you'll need

macOS 13 Ventura or newer (Apple Silicon) · Ollama installed (free — the setup script pulls the recommended models) · 16 GB RAM recommended for the larger local models · First launch needs right-click → Open (the unsigned-app warning is normal for indie software).

Built by Zac Page in Sydney
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