Fabric: your second brain
Fabric · Productivity · Leaning
Fabric is a second brain app and AI knowledge base that keeps your files, notes, and meetings in one place, with an AI that searches everything by meaning and takes action on it for you.
About Fabric: your second brain
What Is Fabric
Fabric is an AI workspace built around the idea that your files, notes, meetings, and ideas should live in one searchable place instead of a dozen apps. You drop in documents, photos, videos, links, and voice notes, and Fabric reads them, connects them, and lets you ask questions about any of it.
The company pitches Fabric as a cloud computer for personal and small team work. The core promise is that the more you save, the smarter the workspace gets: it maps the relationships between your material and builds what Fabric calls a memory engine. On top of that sit AI assistants and agents that summarize calls, draft replies, and run scheduled research jobs on your behalf.
The catch is what you are paying for. There is no permanent free plan, only a $0 trial that steps up to Plus at $8 per month. AI usage is metered, so heavy chat and automation eat into a monthly allowance that you can top up separately. If you mainly want a plain note app, the AI layer here is more than you need.
Getting Started
- Sign up at fabric.so and start the $0 trial. No credit card is needed to look around.
- Add material. Drag in files from your desktop, connect Google Drive, Dropbox, Notion, or Figma, or save links with the browser clipper and mobile apps.
- Let Fabric index what you added, then search by meaning rather than file name to find things across your whole library.
- Ask the assistant questions, have it summarize a meeting or a PDF, or set up an agent to run a task on a schedule.
- Share a space as a published portal if you want clients or teammates to see it, and protect it with a password if the content is sensitive.
Product Information
A quick look at Fabric: your second brain's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Founders and solopreneurs
- Students and researchers
- Designers and content creators
- Small teams
Tasks
- Finding something you saved months ago
- Turning a meeting into follow-ups
- Running recurring research
- Drafting in your own voice
- Sharing a polished deliverable
Scenarios
- Preparing for a client call
- Organizing a launch
- Studying for an exam at 2am
- Rebuilding context after a teammate leaves
Key features
Semantic Search
Fabric acts as a personal search engine that works by meaning, not by keywords you happened to use. You can search inside documents for the exact page in a PDF or the right slide in a deck, find images by color or by dropping in a reference photo, and pull up a specific moment in a recorded call or podcast. Connected apps like Google Drive, Notion, and Figma get searched from the same box, so you don't have to remember where a file lived.
AI Assistants and Agents
Every space has an AI you can chat with, and you can also create named agents with their own personality and schedule. Agents run jobs while you're away: summarizing a week of sales calls, checking competitor prices, or doing web research. Each agent gets its own email inbox, so you can forward a message and attachments to it and have it file them or act on them.
Infinite Cloud Drive
Your files mount like a local drive on your computer, and Fabric streams only the parts you need, so you can even edit video without downloading the whole file first. Everything is available on web, mobile, and desktop, and the library takes up almost no local space. Multiple drives can be mounted at once.
Notes, Meetings, and Tasks
Fabric includes a minimal markdown editor for notes and docs, an AI notetaker that records and transcribes meetings and keeps the key points, and a task system with priorities, due dates, and reminders. Tasks connect to the files they're about, and a kanban view shows what's in progress, blocked, or finished.
Publish and Share
Any space can be published as a polished portal for clients, stakeholders, or new hires, with no login required for viewers. You can password-protect a shared space, folder, or file, and link analytics show who viewed a link, when, and how long they stayed, which is useful before a follow-up meeting.
One Subscription for Many Models
Fabric bundles access to models from the major labs, including Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, Deepseek, xAI, Kimi, and Qwen, under a single subscription. That means one bill and one interface instead of juggling separate accounts for each model you want to try.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Keeps files, notes, meetings, and links in one searchable place, which cuts down on app switching.
- Semantic search works across content, not just file names, so you can find a page or a video moment you half remember.
- Agents with their own email addresses and schedules handle recurring work while you focus elsewhere.
- Publishing a space as a password-protected portal is cleaner than sharing raw cloud drive links.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest, and the workspace keeps a growing memory of your material over time.
Cons
- There's no permanent free plan. Once the $0 trial ends you pay at least $8 per month to keep using it.
- AI usage is metered on every plan, so chat-heavy or automation-heavy workflows can hit the allowance and need a paid top-up.
- The richest AI features, like assistant web search and premium data connections, are locked to Pro and above, which raises the real entry price for serious use.
Frequently asked questions
No. Fabric offers a $0 trial rather than a free tier. After the trial you need a paid plan, starting at $8 per month on the yearly Plus plan.
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