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1 min read By NT²
Escape hatch, not lock-in
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A vault that protects your data should not trap your data. Backup and export are part of the trust model, not an afterthought.
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Product narratives about structured privacy, local-first vaulting, and encrypted handoffs.
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8 min read By NT²
One unlocked vault per tab — by design
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Opening the same vault in two browser tabs is normal. Letting both tabs write the same on-device SQLite file is not. NT² Vault elects one Writer and keeps every other unlocked tab as a follower.
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1 min read By NT²
No analytics on the marketing site
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A privacy product should not ask you to accept tracking just to read its privacy promise.
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7 min read By NT²
Metadata in SQLite, ciphertext in BlobStore
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A vault needs to know which files belong to which items, how large they are, and how to unwrap their keys. It does not need those encrypted bytes sitting inside the relational database that answers those questions.
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2 min read By NT²
Structured security under three dollars
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A privacy tool for everyday households cannot price itself like enterprise software and still claim to be for everyone.
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8 min read By NT²
FTS5 for titles; table scan when filters win
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Local search is not one query shape. Free-text wants a full-text index on titles and search text. Category, trash, archive, and similar filters want ordinary table predicates. The product switches strategy so the UI never has to ship the whole vault into memory to feel searchable.
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1 min read By NT²
Offline by default is not offline-only
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A vault can work offline and still offer sync. The difference is whether the cloud becomes the owner of the data or just a blind carrier.
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8 min read By NT²
Never load the whole vault into Svelte state
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A local vault can hold thousands of structured items without becoming a giant in-memory array. The durable store stays in SQLite. The UI holds only a paged window of lightweight list rows, rendered through a virtual list.
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1 min read By NT²
Look at my screen, not my vault
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A friend asks to check the account number. You want to help, but you do not want your unlocked vault in someone else's hands.
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10 min read By NT²
The account database must not become a password oracle
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An account table can contain no plaintext vault items and still create a dangerous password-testing surface. We removed the columns that could turn a database copy into an offline guessing or recovery system.