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The notes that don’t belong in the tools you’re given, kept beside the project they’re about

Every project leaves a trail of things worth writing down, and they end up in a document nobody can find or a wiki everybody can read. The Notepad keeps them in one list of your own, grouped under the project each one belongs to.

The TaskQuark app on the Notepad, sidebar open with Notepad selected: the filter and help buttons in the pane head, New note in the bar, and the list of notes grouped under their projects — Client onboarding, Office move with its two subprojects IT and network setup and Movers and packing nested under it, and Gym season
The same Notepad on a phone: notes grouped under their projects, with the office move’s two subprojects nested inside it
  • Projects. Each project is a group in the list, with its subprojects nested under it. Close the ones you’re not using.
  • Notes. One line per note: its title, under its project. Click the line to open it.
  • Filter. A few letters of a title and the list narrows as you type. Found before you finish the word.
  • Private until you share. Your notes stay in your own account, read by no one else, until you invite someone to the project.
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Notes and projects

Filed under the project, not in a pile

A notes app gives you one long list and a search box. Here a note belongs to a project from the moment you write it, and the list is the same tree of projects you already use for your tasks.

The same projects as your tasksOne tree for both. A client’s notes sit under the client’s project, beside the work you do for them.
Subprojects nestSplit a project into parts and each part keeps its own notes, indented under the parent.
Close what you’re not usingCollapse a project with forty notes and it stays closed until you open it again. Select one project to see only its notes.
The Notepad list from its left edge: Client onboarding and Gym season closed, Office move open with its five notes, and its subprojects IT and network setup and Movers and packing indented under it, two notes each
Private by default

Written for you, not for an audience

The client’s wiki belongs to the client. The team’s docs belong to the team. What you learned, what you were told in confidence, and how you actually got the thing working have nowhere to go — so they go in your head. Here they go under the project they’re about, in a space of your own, written the way you’d write them for yourself.

Not in a tool someone else runs

Your notes live in your own account, not in the tool your employer or your client runs, where an admin can open every page.

Out of sight on a screen share

Select the project you are on a call about and every other project’s notes leave the list. Personal notes, other clients’ notes — none of it is on screen.

Encrypted, never sold, gone when you go

Encrypted from your browser to us and again at rest. Never scanned for ads, never sold, never fed to a third-party AI service you did not ask for. The day you decide to leave the tool, your notes are gone.

The note Access checklist open in its form, filed under the Client onboarding project: the editor toolbar above a body with the headings Done and Pending, a bulleted list under each, and a closing line with team vault in bold
Titles and filter

Find it by what you called it

The list shows one line per note, and that line is the title you gave it. No previews of the first paragraph, no dates in a second column — a list of titles under their projects is the fastest index there is.

Filter as you typePart of a title is enough. Projects with a match open to show it; the rest step aside.
The whole line opens the noteClick it to read or edit. Come back and the list is as you left it, filter and all.
Formatted, not plainHeadings, lists, emphasis and links in the body — enough structure for a runbook, none of the weight of a document.
The Notepad with the filter open and plan typed: the list narrowed to four notes under their project heads — Milestone plan draft, Floor plan decisions, Network and Wi-Fi plan under the IT and network setup subproject, and Training plan overview
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What ends up in a note

How each client’s setup really works

Freelancing, you learn every client’s stack the hard way. Who approves what, how their access is wired, what broke last time — under their project, not in their tool.

What you’d never put in the team wiki

Managing a team, some notes are about people: what was said in a one-to-one, what you decided and why. Keep the tools you’re given. Keep this one for yourself.

The business’s own memory

Running a business, the accounts, the suppliers, the renewals and the checklists live in your head until they don’t. Here they live under Operations, Billing, Hosting — the projects they already are.

Every project’s notes, in one list of your own.

Add a project and write down the first thing you’d rather not forget.The Notepad keeps it beside the work.

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