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Yes. Oyma is fully functional without an active internet connection. You can create notes, search your vault, record meetings, run speech-to-text transcription, and execute local AI summaries entirely offline in airplane mode.

True Offline-First Computing

Many software products market themselves as “offline-capable,” but in practice they merely maintain a temporary in-memory browser cache. The moment you disconnect your WiFi, core features break: search fails, document creation is blocked until remote authentication succeeds, and audio transcription stops functioning because it depends on cloud speech APIs.

Oyma is built on the Local-First software paradigm. Every foundational feature is engineered to execute against local macOS hardware and non-volatile storage without requiring remote server handshakes.

Features That Function 100% Offline

When working in airplane mode, on remote field research, or in high-security facilities with network connections disabled, Oyma provides uninterrupted capability:

  • Markdown Note Authoring: Full CommonMark editing, visual tables, callouts, and bidirectional linking execute with zero latency.
  • Meeting Audio Recording: System audio capture via ScreenCaptureKit and microphone recording function independently of network availability.
  • Speech-to-Text Transcription: On-device Whisper models run directly on Apple Silicon Neural Engine cores without contacting cloud transcription services.
  • Full-Text Vault Search: SQLite FTS5 BM25 queries scan tens of thousands of local documents in sub-10 millisecond intervals.
  • Local AI Inference: When paired with Ollama on macOS, executive summaries and action items are generated locally.
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|                     macOS Workstation                     |
|                                                           |
|  [CommonMark Notes]  <--->  [Oyma Editor]             |
|          ^                         ^                      |
|          |                         |                      |
|  [Local SQLite FTS5]       [On-Device Whisper]            |
|                                                           |
|                 (ZERO NETWORK HANDSHAKE)                  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

The Pull-the-Plug Test

We encourage every user to perform the “Pull-the-Plug Test”: disable your Mac’s WiFi and Bluetooth entirely, unplug all Ethernet cables, and use Oyma for an entire working day. You will experience zero loading spinners, zero session timeout warnings, and zero degraded features.

Why Offline Autonomy Matters for Knowledge Workers

Cloud outages, DNS failures, and traveling without reliable internet shouldn’t stop you from thinking, writing, and reviewing meetings. By anchoring your workflow to local silicon, your intellectual workspace remains resilient against remote infrastructure disruptions.

Air-Gapped and High-Altitude Workflows

Whether you are writing on an international flight at 35,000 feet, conducting field research in remote rural areas without cellular coverage, or operating inside a secure air-gapped laboratory facility, Oyma delivers identical performance. You never encounter disabled buttons, greyed-out controls, or sync conflict dialogs upon returning online.

Verification via Airplane Mode

You can test complete offline autonomy on your Mac right now:

  1. Toggle macOS WiFi to Off and disconnect any Ethernet cables.
  2. Launch Oyma and create a new project document.
  3. Record a voice memo or test meeting using ScreenCaptureKit.
  4. Execute on-device Whisper transcription and view the instant output.
  5. Search your vault for any phrase across thousands of files.

Every operation executes in milliseconds against local silicon and NVMe storage, proving that cloud dependencies have been eliminated from the core architecture.

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