Notes

Notes that turn into cards, tasks, and a review sheet

A real editor with math, tables, and backlinks, wired into the studying so a note is not where information goes to die.

for every block type: Slash commandsfor every block type
on every note: Version historyon every note
in one action: Notes to deckin one action

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Notes

Folders

Question

At what sucrose concentration does a potato core neither gain nor lose mass?

Method

Six 3 cm cores, blotted and massed, then left 24 hours in 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 M sucrose. Re-massed and converted to percent change.

Sucrose (M)	Mass change
0.0	+18.4%
0.2	+7.1%
0.4	−1.9%
0.6	−9.6%
0.8	−15.2%

What the numbers say

The line crosses zero near 0.35 M, so that is the point where the sucrose solution and the potato cytoplasm sit at the same water potential. Below it the tissue is hypertonic and takes water in; above it the solution is hypertonic and pulls water out.

To do

Plot percent change against molarity
Read the x-intercept off the trend line
Convert the isotonic point into a water potential in bars
Write the error paragraph on blotting technique

The Notes library beside an open note, with folders, pins, and search on the left.

Everything in it

Everything Notes does

Good enough to be your only note app, and connected to the rest of your work in a way a general one cannot be.

The editor

Built on Lexical, so it behaves the way a modern editor should.

Slash commands

Type / for headings, lists, todos, quotes, code, dividers, tables, images, and attachments. No toolbar hunting.

Slash a flashcard in

A card is a block you can type into a note, and a Slate embed pulls in a deck or a lesson where you need it.

Math that renders

Inline and block equations typeset properly, which matters when the note is for a physics exam.

Tables

Real tables you can edit in place, for comparisons and vocabulary.

Code blocks

Syntax highlighting, for the classes where that is the note.

Images

Drop in a diagram or a photo of the board and keep it beside the writing.

Keyboard first

Markdown shortcuts as you type, so formatting never breaks your sentence.

A library, not a pile

Folders, pins, and favorites

Organize by class, keep the three notes you live in at the top, and find the rest by search.

Backlinks

Link one note to another and each end knows about the other. Your notes become a graph over a term.

Full-text search

Search across every note, including the ones the Assistant wrote for you.

Version history

Every note keeps its past versions. Restore the paragraph you deleted at midnight.

Trash with a way back

Deleted notes wait in the trash instead of leaving immediately.

Getting things in

Text recognition from a photo

Photograph a page or a whiteboard and Slate pulls the text out into an editable note.

Straight from the Assistant

Save any reply as a note, so the explanation that finally landed is kept.

Written beside a lesson

Take notes while you read, with the lesson still on screen.

Getting things out

This is the part a general note app cannot do, because it has nowhere to send anything.

Notes to a deck

Turn a note into flashcards. They land in Study on the same spaced repetition as everything else.

Notes to tasks

Pull the action items out of a note and give them dates in Plan.

A review sheet

Condense a term of notes into a single review sheet built around what you are weakest at.

Read it in the Nook

A note-review block puts a note in front of you during a focus session.

Sharing, with a setting for each case

Seven ways to share, because "send my classmate this" and "publish this" are not the same request.

Private by default

Every note starts as yours alone. Nothing is ever shared because you forgot a toggle.

A link that views, or a link that edits

Two separate settings, so handing someone a copy to read is not the same act as letting them change it.

Specific people

Name the classmates who get in. Everyone else, link or not, does not.

Public, or password-protected

Publish it openly, or put a password on the link when open is too open.

Listed on your profile

A separate flag for the notes you want people to find, rather than only the ones you send.

Links that expire

Give a share link an end date, so a note you sent in October is not still open in June.

One context

From a lecture to a card you own

The trip most students make by hand, in four apps, on a Sunday.

01 · Capture
Photograph the board
Text recognition turns it into an editable note before you have left the room.
02 · Notes
Tidy it while it is fresh
Slash commands, a table, the two equations. Link it to last week’s note and the pair now know each other.
03 · Study
Turn it into cards
One action produces a deck from the note. You edit the cards you disagree with and keep the rest.
04 · Plan
The rest happens without you
Those cards enter the review queue, and the queue is what fills your study blocks for the next two weeks.

The Assistant can read all of it

Notes are part of the context the Assistant answers from. Ask what you concluded about a topic in October and it can find the note, quote it, and build questions from it. That only works because the notes and the tutor are the same app.

Make me a deck for AP Bio Unit 3 and plan the two weeks before the exam.

Here's a deck for cell transport, plus a two-week run-up to Friday the 15th.

The deck leads with the four transport mechanisms, because that is where the free-response points usually sit. Tonicity and water potential come after, once the vocabulary is stable.

AP Biology Unit 3: Cell Transport

Proposed

24 cards

Selective permeabilitySmall nonpolar molecules cross freely; ions need a protein.
Facilitated diffusionDown the gradient, through a channel, with no ATP spent.
Water potentialPressure plus solute potential; water runs from high to low.
Hypertonic solutionMore solute outside, so water leaves and the cell shrivels.
Sodium-potassium pumpOne ATP moves three Na⁺ out and two K⁺ in.
+ 19 more

Preview in Study

Ask about anything on your plan

The Assistant answering from your own material, and offering to turn it into a deck.

What it does not do yet

Live co-editing is not there yet: You can share a note for editing, but two people typing in the same note at the same second is not supported today.
No handwriting or stylus input: Notes are typed. You can photograph handwriting and pull the text out, which is the closest thing for now.