Hello Everyone,
We’re beyond excited to share that Legend is joining Vella.ai! Together, we’re bringing fresh energy, a full team, and a shared vision to make Legend everything it was always meant to be.
Brief History
Legend just turned 10 years old last month. Jay first started building it back in 2015 (then called Moo.do) with his friend Grant, and later carried the torch on his own for the past five years — a herculean feat.
At the same time, Yonatan was building Vella.ai — a fully private, AI-powered email client and a passionate community around local-first software. From the beginning, Vella’s mission has been to give users control over their data with user-owned auth, storage, and personalization.
During a fated SyncLondon event, we realized we were both chasing the same vision for the ideal productivity platform — just from different directions. Legend’s strength in documents and structure, combined with Vella’s focus on email and privacy-first AI, felt like a natural fit.
We’re also deeply grateful to those of you who’ve stuck with Legend through years of subscriptions and patient support. We are excited to take this one of a kind product to new heights with improved customer engagement, stability, and transparency backed by a full team committed to its future.
What this means for you
🚑 Quick bug fixes: three already patched this month, checkout the August change log
✨ Monthly updates: new features and improvements released every month
💬 Responsive support: reach us via this community page, email, or Discord.
🔐 Your data stays safe: Legend backups are client-side encrypted, meaning no one (not even Jay) has access to your notes.
Upcoming Features
🏗️ Bringing back native email inside the notebook.
📚 Better organization tools (folders for documents, improved collapsible hierarchy).
➖➕ Full table support.
📄 Markdown import & backups.
Onward,
Jay & Yonatan