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A Note is a structured piece of thinking: a titled document you develop from your raw Thoughts, refine over time, and eventually share. If a thought is a fragment, a note is the synthesis — the place where scattered ideas on a topic get composed into an argument, a proposal, a summary, or a piece of writing worth keeping.

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Create a note

There are two ways to start a note:

Compile from thoughts

In the Thoughts feed, select the thoughts that belong together and choose Convert to Note. The new note opens pre-populated with your selected thoughts — the fastest way to turn accumulated thinking into a draft.

Start from scratch

Create a blank note from the Notes feed when you already know what you want to write. Add a title, then start writing in the editor.

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The note editor

The editor is built for prose and structure — headings, bullet and numbered lists, bold and italic, and links. Your work saves automatically as you type. While you write you can:
  • Attach sources — connect the documents, pages, and files that informed the note, so readers can trace your thinking back to the original material.
  • Tag topics — keep the note discoverable alongside related thoughts and notes.
  • Ask the assistant — use the AI assistant to pressure-test the draft: what’s missing, what’s assumed, what a reader will ask.

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Share a note with your workspace

Notes start private, like thoughts. When a note is ready for other eyes, share it with workspace members so they can read it and weigh in. Sharing a note is how individual thinking meets collective scrutiny — like code review, but for ideas.
You control the audience: share with your whole workspace or with specific members. You can adjust sharing at any time from the note’s share panel.

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Publish a note as an article

When a note has been refined to the point where it’s worth the whole workspace’s attention, publish it as an Article:
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Open the note and select Publish

The publish dialog shows a preview of how the article will appear, including its reading time.
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Choose note visibility

Decide whether the underlying note stays visible alongside the published article, or whether readers only see the polished result.
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Publish

The article appears in your workspace’s Articles feed for every member to read. If you keep editing the note afterwards, you can republish to update the article.

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The pipeline at a glance

Notes sit at the center of the PeerNotes pipeline:
  1. Sources — what you read and collect
  2. Thoughts — your raw, private reactions
  3. Notes — thoughts composed into structured thinking, opened to peers
  4. Articles — refined notes published to the workspace
A note doesn’t need to be perfect before you share it. Sharing early — with a clear “draft, feedback welcome” note at the top — is exactly what PeerNotes is built for.