Your WordPress sites, Node apps, static pages, Blender scenes, and Ableton Sets each keep their own Red Pen notes. The Hub reads them all and shows one board in your browser: every open note, every project, one screen. Resolve a note there and the change flows back to where it lives.
It runs on your own computer and binds to localhost only. It asks for no account, and a request arriving with a non-loopback Host header is turned away.
The Hub is a small local app. It reads note stores where they already are, so it never becomes the only copy of anything.
Start the Hub and open localhost:3900 in your browser. First run takes under a minute.
Scan a folder and the Hub finds every Red Pen store in it. Or paste its connect token into a surface's settings and that project pushes itself.
Search, filter by project, surface, type, or priority, save the views you use, and sort by what matters today.
Resolve or reopen on the board and the Hub writes the change to the note's source: the site, the file, the Set.
Every feature exists because juggling client sites, apps, and creative work in one week demanded it.
WordPress, Express, static sites, Blender, and Ableton Live all land in the same table, with the same statuses and priorities.
Resolve on the board or at the source, and whichever acted last wins. Where the board cannot prove which that was, it says so on the row and stands down rather than overriding you in silence.
Slice by project, surface, type, or priority; search everything; save the combinations you reach for daily.
Turn the current view into a Markdown digest with task checkboxes, built for daily notes and standups, or a CSV for a spreadsheet.
Binds to your loopback interface and nothing else. Your notes never transit anyone's server, including ours. There is no "ours".
Connect as many projects as you keep on the go. It is free the way the rest of Red Pen is free, WordPress white-label reports included.
The Hub is free to run with no project cap. A real tool, not a trial. Every surface feeds it, and it all stays on your machine.
This page runs the web version of Red Pen. The red button in the corner feeds a board just like it.
No. Every surface is complete on its own. The Hub earns its place when you have several projects and want one list instead of five.
No. The Hub runs on your machine, binds to localhost only, and reads note stores that already live on your disk or your own sites. No hosted component exists at all.
Everything. Filters, saved views, exports, two-way sync, unlimited projects. None of it is held back. Nothing asks for a key, and nothing counts your projects.
Two ways: the Hub scans a folder and finds Red Pen stores by itself, or you paste the Hub's connect token into a surface's settings and that project pushes its notes over.
In a per-user folder on your machine: the source list, the connect token, and a small file per pushing project. Back that folder up and you have backed up the Hub.