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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Ideas, tutorials, and updates from our team.
The list you lose every time you open a note
Reviewing twenty notes used to mean forty navigations, and a scroll position thrown away each time. Notes now open in a side panel over the list — here is why, and the two bugs that made it interesting.
Semantic Search for Notes, Explained
How semantic search finds notes by meaning instead of keywords, why embeddings make it work, and what it changes about organizing notes.
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.
How to Build a Note-Taking System as a Developer
A practical note-taking system for developers: what to capture, where to keep it, and the habits that make notes useful months later.
7 Ways to Capture Ideas Without Losing Focus
Seven low-friction ways to capture ideas mid-task — from the URL bar to the terminal — without paying the context-switch tax.
Lightweight Notion Alternatives for Fast Note Capture
Notion is built for documents, not two-second thoughts. Lighter alternatives for quick note capture, and how to choose between them.
The Best Note-Taking Apps for Developers in 2026
How to choose a note-taking app as a developer: the criteria that matter, the main categories, and which tools fit which workflows.
How to Give Claude and Cursor a Persistent Memory With MCP
Use the Model Context Protocol to give AI assistants a shared, persistent memory — notes that survive sessions and follow you across tools.
How to Use Backlinks to Connect Your Notes
What backlinks are, why linked notes beat folders for connected thinking, and practical patterns for building a web of notes.
How to Take Notes From the Terminal
Practical ways to capture notes from the command line — plain files, shell functions, and CLI note tools — without leaving your shell.
Getting Started With the Notez CLI
Install the Notez CLI, authorize your terminal, and capture notes, bookmarks, and piped output without leaving your shell.