# Notez

## Changelog

- [v0.13.0 — Paste files into notes from the list](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-13-0): Notez v0.13.0: paste images and files while renaming a note in the list, custom properties in workspace settings, and property names on hover.
- [v0.12.0 — Paste screenshots straight onto your board](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-12-0): Notez v0.12.0: paste screenshots and files into a board column's quick-add to create a card with a cover image, plus a fix for saving mid-upload.
- [v0.11.0 — Your AI assistant can add images and files to notes](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-11-0): Notez v0.11.0: MCP assistants like Claude Code and Cursor can upload local images and files into notes, with the editor's formats, limits, and cleanup.
- [v0.10.0 — Tell the AI chat how your workspace works](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-10-0): Notez v0.10.0: workspace and personal instructions for AI chat, a collapsed sidebar with every main action, and page layout and text size settings.
- [v0.9.0 — Ask about the board you are looking at](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-9-0): Notez v0.9.0: AI chat sees the screen you have open, reads boards with get_board, and filters notes by column and date. 23 tools, shared with MCP.
- [v0.8.1 — Edit a property from its sidebar section](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-8-1): Notez v0.8.1: Edit property in every sidebar section menu opens the dialog on that property, and an empty sidebar shows a Configure sidebar button on hover.
- [v0.8.0 — Your properties move into the sidebar](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-8-0): Notez v0.8.0: select, member, relation, and board properties as one-click sidebar filters with counts, plus Favorites, a fixed sidebar top, and board J/K.
- [v0.7.0 — Your assistant can finally tidy up](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-7-0): Notez v0.7.0: AI chat and MCP share the same 18 tools, with delete, pin, move, and nested create — plus a fix for moved sub-note breadcrumbs.
- [v0.6.0 — Notes open in a side panel](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-6-0): Notez v0.6.0: notes open in a resizable side panel over the list, J/K navigation, a collapsible sidebar with ⌘\, and Restore from an open note.
- [v0.5.0 — Assign notes to people](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-5-0): Notez v0.5.0: a Member custom property type for assignees and owners, with avatar chips, filtering and sorting by person, and cleanup when a member leaves.
- [v0.4.0 — Workspace settings and avatars](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-4-0): Notez v0.4.0: workspace avatars, a dedicated workspace settings tab with members and a danger zone, and a simpler switcher menu.
- [v0.3.0 — Shared workspaces](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-3-0): Notez v0.3.0: invite members to a workspace by email, live presence on notes, edit attribution, and save conflict protection.
- [v0.2.0 — Capture, faster](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-2-0): Notez v0.2.0: Enter creates a note from the search box, ⌘V saves the clipboard instantly, capture toasts get Undo and Open, 200k-character quick capture.
- [v0.1.0 — Notez is live](https://notez.dev/changelog/v0-1-0): Everything in the first public release of Notez: capture, AI chat, custom properties, boards, undo, sharing, imports, and the macOS desktop app.

## Blog

- [Add a screenshot to an existing note without opening it](https://notez.dev/blog/add-images-to-existing-notes-from-the-list): Paste screenshots and files into any note straight from the notes list or kanban board in Notez — plus custom properties in workspace settings.
- [Paste a screenshot, get a kanban card: cover images in one keystroke](https://notez.dev/blog/paste-screenshots-into-kanban-cards): Add a cover image to a kanban card by pasting a screenshot into the quick-add box. How it works in Notez, and why the card waits for the upload.
- [Claude Code can now put images in your notes: file uploads over MCP](https://notez.dev/blog/upload-images-to-notes-with-claude-code): How Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP assistants upload images and files into Notez notes — and the silent 3-day image loss we had to design out.
- [Custom instructions for AI chat: one set for the team, one for you](https://notez.dev/blog/custom-instructions-for-ai-chat): Set standing instructions for the Notez AI chat once for a whole workspace and once for yourself — and why the owner's rules have to come last in the prompt.
- ["What are my tasks today?"](https://notez.dev/blog/what-are-my-tasks-today): An AI assistant that cannot see your screen guesses. How Notez taught its chat to read the board in front of you and answer "what are my tasks today?".
- [The link we cut, and why it came back](https://notez.dev/blog/the-link-we-cut-and-why-it-came-back): Notez v0.8.1 adds Edit property to every sidebar section menu and brings back Configure sidebar for the one case it works: a sidebar with nothing in it.
- [Every property, one click away](https://notez.dev/blog/every-property-one-click-away): Notez v0.8.0 puts custom properties in the sidebar: filter notes by status, assignee, linked project, or board column with one click, with live counts.
- [Two assistants, one toolset](https://notez.dev/blog/two-assistants-one-toolset): How the Notez AI chat and MCP server drifted apart, what it took to make them identical, and the closure-table bug our unit tests happily agreed with.
- [The list you lose every time you open a note](https://notez.dev/blog/the-list-you-lose): Why Notez notes now open in a side panel over the list instead of navigating away, and the engineering behind it.
- [Semantic Search for Notes, Explained](https://notez.dev/blog/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](https://notez.dev/blog/notez-note-taking-app-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](https://notez.dev/blog/note-taking-system-for-developers): 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](https://notez.dev/blog/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](https://notez.dev/blog/notion-alternatives-for-quick-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](https://notez.dev/blog/best-note-taking-apps-for-developers): 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](https://notez.dev/blog/persistent-ai-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](https://notez.dev/blog/how-to-use-backlinks-in-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](https://notez.dev/blog/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](https://notez.dev/blog/getting-started-with-the-notez-cli): Install the Notez CLI, authorize your terminal, and capture notes, bookmarks, and piped output without leaving your shell.
- [The assignee who no longer works here](https://notez.dev/blog/the-assignee-who-no-longer-works-here): Why Notez member properties clear a departing member's assignments instead of leaving tombstones, and how the member type reuses the property system.
- [Four ways to get it back: undo, versions, the Bin, and the write that gets refused](https://notez.dev/blog/undo-version-history-and-the-bin): Four layers protect your notes in Notez: a 20-action undo stack, 30 days of version history, a 30-day Bin, and a save guard that refuses stale writes.
- [Links that survive a rename](https://notez.dev/blog/note-links-backlinks-and-the-graph): Why Notez links notes by id rather than title, how backlinks stay correct without maintenance, and how relation properties differ from inline links.
- [Why your notes app cannot find your note](https://notez.dev/blog/hybrid-search-for-notes): How hybrid search works in Notez: an ILIKE keyword branch, a pgvector semantic branch, how notes are chunked and embedded, and the two distance thresholds.
- [The cleanup job that would have deleted your avatar](https://notez.dev/blog/attached-files-and-the-cleanup-job): Why an uploaded file needs an explicit attached flag, how a 3-day cleanup job nearly deleted live workspace avatars, and what a green test suite missed.
- [Sharing without the merge conflict](https://notez.dev/blog/sharing-without-the-merge-conflict): Why Notez shared workspaces skip real-time co-editing in favour of presence, edit attribution, and a save conflict guard that refuses the second write.
- [Capture, faster: Enter creates, paste saves](https://notez.dev/blog/capture-faster): Enter in the Notez search box now creates a note, ⌘V saves your clipboard instantly, and every capture has Undo and Open. What changed, and why.
- [Moving in from Notion or Evernote](https://notez.dev/blog/import-from-notion-evernote): How to migrate a Notion .zip or Evernote .enex export into Notez, what is preserved, the size limits, and how import undo works.
- [Connect Notez to Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf with MCP](https://notez.dev/blog/notez-mcp-server): Set up the Notez MCP server in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf, and give your assistant access to your notes.
- [Beyond folders: how Notez organizes notes](https://notez.dev/blog/beyond-folders): Why Notez has no folders, and how tags, note nesting, kanban boards, and ten custom property types replace them.
- [Your notes, answerable: how AI chat works in Notez](https://notez.dev/blog/your-notes-answerable): A precise look at Notez AI chat: its fourteen tools, hybrid search, semantic similarity, what it can change in your workspace, and what it cannot.
- [Capture from anywhere: the CLI, MCP, and quick capture](https://notez.dev/blog/capture-from-anywhere): Six ways to get a thought into Notez without breaking flow: the CLI, MCP, type-anywhere capture, clipboard paste, URL bookmarks, and quick notes.
- [Why we built Notez](https://notez.dev/blog/why-we-built-notez): Notez is a notes app built around instant capture and notes you can actually ask questions about. Here is the thinking behind it.

## Help Center

- [AI chat instructions](https://notez.dev/help/ai-and-search/ai-chat-instructions): Give Notez AI chat standing instructions: workspace rules the owner sets for every member, and personal instructions each person adds for themselves.
- [The sidebar](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/the-sidebar): A tour of the Notez sidebar: New note and Home, Favorites, Tags and property sections, the section menu, the Configure sidebar button, and collapsing it.
- [Sharing a workspace with other people](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/shared-workspaces): How to invite members to a Notez workspace, assign them to notes, what owners and members can each do, seat limits, presence, and edit attribution.
- [Notifications and languages](https://notez.dev/help/account-and-billing/notifications-and-languages): What Notez notifications cover, why there are no reminders or due dates, and the five supported interface languages.
- [Security and sessions](https://notez.dev/help/account-and-billing/security-and-sessions): Manage active Notez sessions, revoke devices, rotate API keys, and understand how your notes are protected.
- [Troubleshooting common problems](https://notez.dev/help/troubleshooting/troubleshooting): Fixes for common Notez problems: missing notes, upload failures, sign-in issues, AI search gaps, and CLI or MCP errors.
- [Storage and AI limits: what to do when you hit one](https://notez.dev/help/troubleshooting/hitting-limits): What to do when you reach a Notez storage limit, AI token limit, or upload size limit — and how to free space.
- [Quick capture and bookmarks](https://notez.dev/help/getting-started/quick-capture): Capture notes fast in Notez: type-anywhere search capture, clipboard paste, URL bookmarks, and note source badges.
- [Files and attachments](https://notez.dev/help/getting-started/files-and-attachments): Adding images and documents to Notez notes from the editor or an AI assistant over MCP: formats, size limits by plan, and how storage is reclaimed.
- [Undo and the Bin](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/undo-and-bin): How undo works in Notez, what the Bin retains, restoring deleted notes, and how deletion cascades to sub-notes.
- [Using boards](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/using-boards): How Notez kanban boards work: columns, dragging cards, quick-add with pasted screenshots as card covers, and per-note boards.
- [Linking notes and backlinks](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/linking-notes): How to link notes with [[ in Notez, how backlinks work, and how to use the Linked notes list and graph views.
- [Version history](https://notez.dev/help/getting-started/version-history): How Notez version history works: 30-day retention, 5-minute snapshots, previewing and restoring earlier versions of a note.
- [Your account and apps](https://notez.dev/help/account-and-billing/account-and-apps): Notez sign-in methods, guest accounts, the macOS desktop app, PWA installation, notifications, and account deletion.
- [Plans, limits, and billing](https://notez.dev/help/account-and-billing/plans-and-limits): Compare the Notez Free, Pro, and Ultra plans: storage, file size, AI token limits, workspace members, and how billing works.
- [Sharing a note](https://notez.dev/help/integrations-and-import/sharing-notes): How public read-only share links work in Notez, how to revoke one, and when to share a whole workspace instead.
- [Importing from Notion and Evernote](https://notez.dev/help/integrations-and-import/importing-notes): How to import a Notion .zip or Evernote .enex export into Notez, what is preserved, size limits, retry, and undo.
- [The Notez CLI](https://notez.dev/help/integrations-and-import/notez-cli): Install and use the Notez CLI to capture notes and upload files from the terminal on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
- [MCP server setup](https://notez.dev/help/integrations-and-import/mcp-server-setup): Set up the Notez MCP server in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, or Windsurf — 25 tools to read, write, and upload images and files into your notes.
- [Search and Similar Notes](https://notez.dev/help/ai-and-search/search): Using hybrid search in Notez: keyword plus semantic results, search-box capture, filters, and automatic Similar Notes.
- [Using AI chat](https://notez.dev/help/ai-and-search/using-ai-chat): A guide to Notez AI chat: its tools, what it can and cannot change, good prompts, and token limits by plan.
- [Workspaces](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/workspaces): How Notez workspaces separate notes, tags, properties, boards, and API keys — and how to share a workspace with members.
- [Custom properties](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/custom-properties): How to create and use the eleven custom property types in Notez, including relation and member properties, filtering, and sorting.
- [Organizing notes: tags, nesting, boards, and favorites](https://notez.dev/help/organizing-notes/organizing-notes): How to organize notes in Notez with tags, note nesting, kanban boards, favorites, sidebar filter sections, and the three view modes.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://notez.dev/help/getting-started/keyboard-shortcuts): The complete list of Notez keyboard shortcuts for capture, search, the note side panel, editing, and undo.
- [Writing notes: the editor and slash commands](https://notez.dev/help/getting-started/editor-and-slash-commands): A reference for the Notez editor: slash-menu blocks, formatting, tables, embeds, note links, backlinks, and version history.
- [Getting started with Notez](https://notez.dev/help/getting-started/getting-started): A first walkthrough of Notez: creating notes, organizing with tags and boards, searching, and setting up the CLI and MCP.