Data Privacy and Ownership

Your personal productivity system holds a lot — tasks, plans, notes, ideas. Everdo is built on the premise that data this personal should stay yours, stored where you control it, unreadable to anyone else.

Your data stays on your device

When you install Everdo, it creates a local database on your computer. Nothing is uploaded anywhere by default. The app works fully offline, and your data remains private without any extra configuration on your part.

This also means Everdo keeps working regardless of what happens to the company, the servers, or your internet connection. There’s no account to get locked out of and no service that could go away and take your data with it.

Most cloud-based apps store data on remote servers in unencrypted form — it’s a practical requirement for features like server-side search. That’s a tradeoff that makes sense for some apps, but not for something as personal as a productivity system.

End-to-end encrypted sync

If you choose to use the sync service, your data is encrypted on your device before it’s transmitted — and decrypted only on your other devices. The sync server never has access to your actual data. Not as a policy, but by design: the keys never leave your devices.

This means you get seamless sync across desktop and mobile without giving up the privacy guarantees of local storage.

Your data can’t be used to train AI

Cloud-based productivity apps have access to your data in plain text — which means it can be fed into AI models, whether disclosed or not. Everdo’s architecture makes this impossible: data is encrypted on your device before it ever reaches a server, so there’s nothing readable to collect or train on. This isn’t a policy that can change — it’s a consequence of how the system works.

Your data is never deleted

Everdo doesn’t delete your actions, projects, or notes except when you explicitly clear the Trash yourself. Everything you’ve ever captured stays searchable and accessible. A productivity system doubles as a personal record, and that record should be complete.

Open, queryable SQLite database

Everdo stores everything in a SQLite database — an open, widely supported, file-based format. This gives you direct access to your own data in a way cloud apps simply can’t match:

Back it up by copying a single file, on whatever schedule you want
Query it directly with any SQLite client to analyze or export your data
Integrate it with other tools — scripts, dashboards, whatever you need
Keep it forever — the format is open and readable independently of Everdo