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  • Productivity

    Reminders that live in the note they are about

    Notez v0.20.0 adds reminders you type into a note with @, a Calendar page that shows them next to every date property, and the same @ in the search box and on boards.

  • Product

    Your notes in Claude and ChatGPT, without an API key

    Notez v0.17.0 turns your notes into a connector you add to Claude, ChatGPT or VS Code with one URL. Sign in, choose read only or read and write, and take access back whenever you like.

  • Product

    Claude Code can now put images in your notes: file uploads over MCP

    Your AI assistant could write the incident report but not paste in the screenshot. Notez v0.11.0 lets Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP assistant with a shell upload images and files straight into your notes — here is how it works, and the bug we designed out before it shipped.

  • Productivity

    Custom instructions for AI chat: one set for the team, one for you

    Stop telling your assistant the same things every conversation. Notez v0.10.0 lets a workspace owner set standing instructions for every member's AI chat and lets each person add their own — and our first version of "the owner wins" lost to the model.

  • Productivity

    "What are my tasks today?"

    A five-word question broke our AI chat. Fixing it meant admitting the model could not see the screen, did not know what a task was, and had no tool that could read a board.

  • Product

    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.

  • semantic-search

    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.

  • Product

    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.