Security · 5 May 2026 · 8 min

Local-first: understand where your data lives

PANACHES puts the desktop software at the center so files, notes and sources stay in your work environment.

PANACHES can claim a local-first approach because the desktop software keeps work files, notes and sources in the user environment by default.

Notes, documents, media, code and Ambre are designed to work close to your sources instead of scattering them between many services.

Online services remain identifiable: payment goes through Stripe, while web workflows naturally depend on the sites you visit.

This approach makes the path clearer: you know when you are working locally, when you open a web page and when you use an external service.