Notes
A note is a page the household keeps: the boiler's model number, what the vet said, the plan for the kitchen. The app opens on the Notes tab, and most of what the app does — to-dos, questions, people, dates, tags — can be done from inside a note without leaving it.
Where notes live
Notes live in the same groups as to-dos and are shown the same way: Personal, Work (in your own workspace), the household's own groups. All notes, at the top of the Notes tab, shows every note across every group. Inside a group, a line under the title offers New note and New group, and each note's row shows its title, when it was last written, a line of its text, and a photo count when it has photos.
Writing
A note is one page of plain text. The first line is its title. What you type is saved after a short pause, so there is no save button and nothing to lose if the phone goes to sleep.
Two people can have the same note open at once. Each one's words are merged into the other's screen as they go, and where both changed the same words, both versions stand for someone to tidy — nothing anyone typed is thrown away. While someone else has the note open, a small badge on the note's top edge names them and says whether they are writing, and a thin line in the text with their name on it shows where their cursor is.
Lines that do something
Certain lines mean something when a note is saved. A marker has to be at the start of its line.
| Write | What happens |
|---|---|
todo book the MOT | Makes a to-do in the note's own group. The line is marked "(now a to-do)" so it is not made twice, and completing the to-do writes "(done …)" back onto the line. |
ask @sam: which tile? | Asks Sam a question. ask: on its own asks nobody in particular. Questions gather on the Questions screen, and answering one writes "(answered …)" back onto the line that asked. |
@sam | Names a person, and makes one the first time that name is used. Typing @ offers the household's people. |
[Sep 4, 2026] | A date in square brackets puts the note on that day of the calendar. A plain date in the text just becomes a chip. |
#renovation | Tags the note, for finding everything about one job. |
Nothing is required; a note with none of these is just a note.
People and nicknames. Typing @ completes to a person's full name with their nickname in brackets, like @shiyi_liu_(Alice). Either half finds the person afterwards, and a name typed that way makes a person with that nickname.
Chips. Phone numbers, emails, links and addresses anywhere in a note become chips to call, mail, open or map.
Photos
A camera button in the note's header takes a photo or picks one, and an image pasted onto the note is filed as a photo too. Big photos are fine — they are shrunk on the phone before they upload. Each photo opens full size, swipeable and zoomable.
When the assisted features are on, a photo also offers Read text, which reads the words on it — a label, a receipt, a whiteboard — and keeps the reading with the photo. Edit text corrects it by hand, Clear text removes it (and offers the read again), and Add to note puts it into the note.
Finding notes
Search, on a group or on All notes, looks through titles and text, and understands #tag and @person: #renovation finds everything tagged, @sam everything that names Sam.
Archiving, deleting, moving
A note's X archives it rather than deleting it. An archived note sits on a shelf inside its group, where it can be restored or, only from there, deleted for good. There is no delete button anywhere else, on purpose.
Holding a note offers to move it to another group, or to another workspace. A moved note keeps its photos.