nona — your personal AI academy.

The idea

nona is a personal learning operating system: a structured curriculum, a research workspace, a note system, an assessment engine, and a local AI tutor — all in one calm place, all on your own computer, with your data never leaving the device. The voice is deliberate: learning as an expedition, one step at a time.

What's inside

• The path. Four gated stages, each with a core of 7–10 curated free courses. Finish the core to unlock the next stage — and every stage covers both the technical core and the human side (ethics, safety, governance, economics) at rising depth.
• Resources. ~75 hand-picked resources, all free to study online, with filters and progress tracking.
• Notes & research. A markdown notebook with autosave and tags, plus a paper tracker, a reading queue, and an idea repository — the seeds of a knowledge graph.
• Assessments. Quizzes and reflections with scoring and history, so you can actually tell whether it stuck.
• A local AI tutor. Ask questions on any topic, summarize your notes, and generate quizzes — running on a local model, or your own Claude key, entirely under your control.

The design

A warm, light identity in earth tones, with two accents that rarely touch: teal for the machine, orange for the human. It's a calm, private, offline-first space on purpose — the opposite of an anxious feed. Learning should feel like a quiet room, not a notification.

Why it's here

nona is the tool I built to learn the field this whole portfolio lives in. It's honest about how I work: teach myself in public, structure the chaos, and keep the human firmly in the loop — even when the tutor is an AI.

Project facts

• Status: in private development — the areas above are built and running locally; not live yet.
• Built with Next.js + TypeScript and Tailwind; local-first, so your notes and progress stay on your device.
• The AI tutor runs on a local model via Ollama by default; you can point it at a hosted Claude model with your own key, which stays server-side.
• The curriculum itself is editable — you can add, edit, and reorder levels and topics, and export or import everything.