Two assistants, one toolset
Notez had two AI surfaces that were supposed to be equivalent and quietly stopped being. Closing the gap took an afternoon; the bug we found underneath it took longer, and a test we almost did not write is what caught it.
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Notez: A Note-Taking App Built for Developers
What Notez is and how it works: capture notes from the URL bar, terminal, AI tools, or web, then find them again by meaning.
The assignee who no longer works here
Adding an assignee field takes an afternoon. Deciding what happens to that assignment when the person leaves the workspace took longer — and it is the only part of this feature anyone will ever notice.
Four ways to get it back: undo, versions, the Bin, and the write that gets refused
Losing work in a notes app is a design failure, not user error. Notez has four separate safety nets operating on four different timescales — and each one exists because a different thing goes wrong.
Links that survive a rename
Most wiki-style note apps link by title, which means renaming a note quietly breaks every link into it. Notez links by id. Here is what that changes — for backlinks, for the graph, and for the day you finally rename that note.
Why your notes app cannot find your note
Keyword search matches the words you typed. You no longer remember the words you typed. Here is how hybrid search actually works in Notez — the two branches, the thresholds, and the parts we deliberately left simple.
The cleanup job that would have deleted your avatar
Adding workspace avatars meant adding an upload. The upload worked, the picture appeared, and a background job three days later would have quietly deleted it. Here is the flag we forgot.
Sharing without the merge conflict
Notez workspaces can now hold more than one person. We skipped real-time co-editing on purpose — here is what we built instead, and why refusing a write beats merging one.
Why we built Notez
Most note apps are great at storing things and bad at giving them back. Notez is built around one idea: capture should be instant, and everything you have written should be answerable.