🌅 Apricity — a local, zero-dependency front-end for your MemPalace

Once my palace passed a few hundred memories, I wanted to see it — search, edit, and curate without dropping into SQL or living in an MCP shell. So I built Apricity: a browser UI that talks to the official mempalace package, binds to 127.0.0.1, ships zero runtime dependencies (one file of stdlib Python + vanilla HTML/CSS/JS), and snapshots every destructive action so nothing is ever lost.

It's not a memory system of its own — it's the window onto yours.

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/epinethrone/apricity · MIT · runs from a clone with python3 server.py

🔎 Search that feels alive

The search bar carries an always-on rotating ring — the "alive and listening" affordance. ⌘K from anywhere; Enter jumps to the first match.

Apricity search bar — rotating ring + live typing
Apricity search bar — rotating ring + live typing

✍️ Write & edit inline — no raw-Markdown round-trip

A real WYSIWYG editor: circular toolbar, live bold/italic, ## → heading autoformat, and callouts. Edits apply optimistically and revert on failure.

Apricity inline editor
Apricity inline editor

♻️ Nothing is ever lost

Delete a memory, a room, or a whole wing — every delete is snapshotted into Recently deleted, one click from restore.

Apricity delete-and-recover flow
Apricity delete-and-recover flow

🔔 See who did what

A notification bell surfaces every memory as it's filed or revised — with the originating model's avatar (Claude, Codex, Gemini...) and a created vs updated tag at a glance.

Apricity notifications cascade
Apricity notifications cascade

🎨 Make it yours

Auto / Light / Dark — follow the system or pick a side; your choice is persisted.

Apricity theme switcher
Apricity theme switcher

Why you might like it

• 🏠 Local-first — binds to 127.0.0.1, no telemetry, no cloud, no accounts.
• 🪶 Zero runtime deps — stdlib server + vanilla front-end. No npm, no Docker, no build step.
• 🛡️ Safe by construction — every write routes through mempalace; every delete/edit is snapshotted; ETag concurrency prevents lost edits.
• ⚡ Fast — reads SQLite/Chroma directly; localStorage cache + gzip + serve-time minify make reloads feel instant.
• 🧠 Built for the graph — view triples, add/invalidate facts, explore tunnels and a force-directed knowledge graph.

It expects an installed MemPalace on the same machine — it doesn't ship MemPalace itself. Everything above is animated SVG (no video), so it plays right here in the thread.

Would love feedback from other MemPalace users — especially on the curation workflows. 🙏

— built with way too much care for a dashboard