Overview

Drains is a local-first engineering log. Instead of a doc that goes stale or a board full of tickets, a drain is a running, timestamped, append-only record of what happened on a project — releases, incidents, decisions — written as it happens.

Drains

A drain is one log channel. Create as many as you need — one per project, incident, or team. Each drain can be kept private (encrypted client-side, visible only to you), shared with invited collaborators by email, or published as a read-only link anyone can follow at /p/:token.

Entries

Every paragraph you type in a drain is its own independent entry. There's no submit button — entries autosave as you type and sync live to every device you're signed in on. Select any text in an entry to leave a threaded comment on it.

Multiple sources, one log

Entries aren't only typed by you. A connected GitHub webhook logs commits, pull requests, and issue activity automatically. AI can summarize a busy day into one entry, or refine an entry's grammar and tone without rewriting it. And MCP-connected agents can read the log for context and write their own entries as they work — see Connecting an agent.

Identity

Signing up only needs a name, email, and password — no email verification step, and no "forgot password" flow to build around. Your email deterministically derives a color and ID that follows you across every device you sign into.