What Intelligent Notes Is Built For
Intelligent Notes is a personal knowledge notebook that builds a memory layer around what you write — without interrupting you...
Knowledge Base
Documentation & Technical Resource Hub
Search guides, architecture specifications, domain references, export formats, and system design documentation below.
Getting Started
Write and Process a Note
Open the editor, write in your own voice, press Process. The memory layer returns a title, summary, domain, and keywords…
Creating and Naming Chapters
Chapters are the shelves of your notebook. Each chapter belongs to one subject domain. Notes inherit their domain from the...
Reading the Note Card
Every saved note displays as a card: title at top, summary below, keywords and symbols at the base. Tap to...
The Memory Layer
How the Memory Layer Works
When you press Process, your note text is sent to the AI classification layer. It returns metadata only — title,...
20 Subject Domains: Classification Reference
Each note is classified into one of 20 subject domains. The domain is inherited from the chapter at save time…
29 Symbols: Vocabulary and Meaning
The AI assigns up to 3 symbols from a vocabulary of 29 glyphs. Each symbol carries a meaning and a...
Confidence Levels: Six-Point Scale
Every note carries a confidence rating: verified, tested, reasoned, proposed, abandoned, or unknown. The scale drives search ranking…
Golden Keys: Marking Your Best Insights
A Golden Key marks the insight your research rotates around. Only the Author can crown a note. The AI never...
Supersession: Tracing How Thinking Evolves
When a new insight replaces an old Golden Key, the Author supersedes it. The original is preserved and marked —...
Search and Retrieval
How Search Scoring Works
Search scores each note across four signals: title match, keyword match, symbol vocabulary expansion, and domain vocabulary…
Symbol-Based Search Expansion
Each symbol carries a keyword vocabulary. Searching "attractor" surfaces notes carrying 🧲 even if that word never appears in the...
Domain Vocabulary in Search
Each domain carries field-specific vocabulary. A Systems Theory chapter scores higher for "feedback loop" even without an exact keyword match…
Confidence Weighting in Search Results
At equal text relevance, verified notes rank above reasoned notes, which rank above proposed. The system surfaces your most trusted...
Filtering by Golden Key Status
The 🔑 and 🗝️ toggles filter your notebook to current Golden Keys or superseded keys — the fastest route to...
Editing and Assembly
Editing Note Fields After Processing
Author Edition allows full editorial control: rewrite the title, summary, body, and keywords without triggering the AI again…
Moving a Note to Another Chapter
Open a note, press Move, and select the destination chapter. Metadata, keywords, and Golden Key status transfer intact…
Reordering Notes Within a Chapter
Use the arrows on each note card header to reorder notes within a chapter. Order is preserved in export…
Reordering Chapters in the Sidebar
Select a chapter to activate its sub-action bar. Use the arrows to move the chapter within the sidebar…
Archiving and Deleting Notes
Archive a note to remove it from active view without deleting it. Archived notes remain searchable and can be restored...
Export and Backup
Exporting Notes and Chapters as Markdown
Every note, chapter, and complete notebook exports to Markdown. Content is verbatim — no reformatting, no summarisation…
JSON Export Schema Reference
The JSON export carries every field: title, summary, body, keywords, symbols, domain, confidence, golden key status, and content hash…
Backup and Restore: Full Notebook Transfer
The full notebook backup exports as a single JSON file. Restore to any browser instance of Intelligent Notes without data...
Content Hashes: Verifying Text Integrity
Every saved note carries a SHA-256 hash of the body text. The hash is verified on restore — any alteration...
Architecture
Local Storage: Where Data Lives
Intelligent Notes stores your entire notebook in browser local storage. No server-side note database. No copy exists anywhere else…
The AI Processing Call
When you press Process, raw note text is sent to the classification API. The API returns metadata only — body...
Privacy Model: What Leaves Your Device
Only the text submitted for processing leaves your device. It is classified, metadata is returned, and the original text is...
Data Model: Core Schema
Each note carries a UUID, chapter reference, full metadata, and a content hash. Chapters carry an ordered list of note...
Forward Compatibility with V6
The V1 data model migrates to the V6 engine without schema changes. Domain names, symbol glyphs, and confidence weights are...
Design Philosophy
Write Fast. Store Plain.
The founding principle. Speed at capture is not a feature — it is the condition that makes the tool usable...
The 200KB Notebook
The complete app — every feature — compresses to under 200KB gzipped. Loads in under one second on any device…
The Vessel and the Ocean
Intelligent Notes is the vessel. Blue Whale Memory is the ocean. The vessel is deliberately small and fast. The ocean...
System Status
- All fingerprints validated
- mod97 invariants enforced
- System Target:
https://api.intelligent-notes.com
All documentation is version-controlled and model-independent.