Capture a thought. Rhinal structures it. Free to start.
Built for clinical researchers and anyone whose thinking has stakes

You forgetyour best ideas.Rhinal doesn't.

Built for the 2am ward observation, the mid-meeting decision, the research insight that vanishes before you can write it down. Rhinal structures your thinking and keeps it in your own Notion, privately, without guessing.

How it works
YOU'RE THINKING
RHINAL REMEMBERS
One thought, eight steps

Watch what happens to a single capture.

A real clinical thought, followed from the moment it's typed to the day it becomes a case report. Tap any step to open it.

Three ways to capture
Voice
Tap the mic and speak: transcribed automatically, with a browser fallback if the cloud is unreachable.
Night Mode
After 11pm, captures are saved silently with no questions, then structured for you by morning.
With a file
Attach a scan or PDF: PII-checked in your browser, then sent straight to your own Notion.
The problem

You lose your best thinking.

A sharp observation at work. A decision and the reason behind it. A pattern you noticed across a week. You mean to write it down, and by next week it's gone, or buried in notes you never reopen. The thinking that matters most is the easiest to lose.

Why it's different

It organizes, and it never guesses.

Most note apps just store your words in a pile. Most AI tools forget what you said, or fill the gaps with confident guesses. Rhinal does neither: it tidies your messy thought into a clean, dated, connected record using only what you actually said, and asks one sharp question when something's unclear.

What you dump in

"ok so we decided to push the launch to march instead of feb, mainly because the payments integration isn't ready and rohan said QA needs 3 more weeks, also we don't want to clash with the competitor's release"

What Rhinal keeps
Launch moved to March
Delayed from February: payments integration incomplete, QA needs 3 more weeks, and to avoid clashing with a competitor's release.
DecisionProduct

Works for any kind of thinking: a clinical case, a product decision, a research thread.

See it

Your thinking, on one calm canvas.

rhinal - your thinking canvas
CaptureDecisionSpecRecall
Patient's fever keeps recurring every 10 days…
What was the exposure history: any water or animal contact?
Think out loud…
YOUR VAULT · LIVE
3 entries
live
Recurrent fever: leptospirosis
Clinical
Switch to batch ingestion
Decision
Vector recall design
Architecture

You talk on the left. Your structured memory grows on the right: every entry dated, tagged, and linked to what came before.

It compounds
Every entry is dated and linked to related ones. A line of work becomes a living map, worth more each week, and impossible to rebuild anywhere else.
It never guesses
When a thought is unclear, Rhinal asks one sharp question instead of inventing the missing detail. What's saved is only what you actually said.
It stays yours
Runs on your own model: free and private on your machine, or your own cloud key. Stored in your own Notion. No server reads your thinking.
Who it's for

If your ideas are worth keeping, it's for you.

Built from clinical practice, first
Clinical researchers
Track a case or study across months.
Founders & ops
Capture a decision and the reasoning behind it, not just the outcome.
Researchers & PhDs
Contradiction Radar flags when new data conflicts with what you already noted about the literature.
Engineers & tech leads
Decision Log keeps the reasoning behind an architecture choice, so it survives past the meeting it was made in.
Any long-running work
The pattern generalizes past medicine: anywhere reasoning has to hold up weeks or months later.
The engineering behind it

Built like infrastructure, not a note-taking toy.

Vector search & embeddings
Every capture is embedded and searchable: the engine behind Ask Vault and Contradiction Radar.
Multi-provider LLM routing
Bring your own key from 10 providers, or try free. Rhinal routes each request intelligently.
Row-level security
Every user's data is isolated at the database level, not just in the application layer.
Client-side PII scanning
Face detection and pattern scanning run in your browser: files are checked before they ever leave your device.
Talk to us

Two doors: pick the one that fits.

Something's broken
Couldn't get it working?

If onboarding tripped you up, or a capture didn't save, or the model wouldn't connect: tell us exactly what went wrong. We read every one of these and fix the onboarding path directly. No ticket queue, no bot.

Building something together
Partners & investors

If you want to partner, invest, or bring Rhinal to your institution or cohort, start a conversation. Tell us who you are and what you have in mind, and we'll get back to you directly.

AM
A note from the founder

I'm building Rhinal because I kept a thought at 2am and lost it by morning.

I'm a third-year MBBS student at JGMCH. On night duty, the thought that mattered (the finding that didn't fit the working diagnosis, the thing my senior said in passing that I'd need in three days) never survived until I had time to write it down properly. By morning it was just gone, replaced by the next patient.

When fast, cheap AI inference became real, it was obvious what to build: something that catches the thought the moment it happens and does the structuring for you. Not another notes app. Something that tells you when you've contradicted your own reasoning, tracks whether your predictions were right, and remembers what you were thinking three weeks ago so you don't have to.

Rhinal is free to start, lives in your own Notion, and doesn't ask a hospital's permission to exist. If you're the kind of clinician who thinks between shifts and loses half of it, try it, and tell me what's broken. I read every message myself.

Ayan Mukhopadhyay
Founder, Rhinal · 3rd-year MBBS, JGMCH

Start with one thought.

The longer you track a line of work, the more it holds that nothing else can. Setup takes about a minute.

How it works