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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.
  • Use the AI editor — proofread or rewrite the whole note, rewrite a selection, or draft a new note from a prompt.
Open a finished note and select Listen to hear it read aloud — a useful last pass before you share.

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Share a note with your workspace

Notes start private, like thoughts. When a note is ready for other eyes, turn on Share with workspace — from the note’s card in the Notes feed, or from the note itself. Every member can then read it in the Shared view of the Notes feed and comment on it. Sharing a note is how individual thinking meets collective scrutiny — like code review, but for ideas. Toggle it back off any time to make the note private again.
Want specific people to edit with you rather than just read and comment? Add them as collaborators — that shares the note with the workspace too.
New notes follow your Sharing preference for notes — private unless you’ve changed the default.

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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, shared with the workspace when ready
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.