The Anatomy of a Note
When we named the product "Nexus Note," we chose the word "note" deliberately. Not "document." Not "file." Note.
A note is the atomic unit of meaning—the smallest piece of information worth remembering. Understanding this distinction is key to understanding what we're building.
Documents Are Containers
A document is a container. It holds multiple ideas, often spanning different topics and time periods. A meeting transcript might contain decisions about hiring, product direction, and vacation schedules all in one file.
Traditional note-taking apps treat documents as the primary unit. You create files, organize them in folders, and search within them. But this means context gets buried. The hiring decision is locked inside a 45-minute transcript.
Notes Are Connections
In Nexus Note, we extract meaning from containers. A single meeting might generate several notes:
- A decision about delaying Q1 hiring
- A task to follow up with the product team
- A preference about how you like status updates formatted
Each note is linked to its source, timestamped, and connected to related notes across your knowledge base. When you ask "What did I decide about hiring?", the answer isn't buried in a document—it's surfaced as a first-class object.
Types of Notes
Everything worth remembering becomes a note:
- Decisions — What you chose and why
- Tasks — Commitments you've made
- Events — Things that happened at specific times
- Preferences — How you like things done
- Patterns — Behaviors the system has observed
- Signals — Things you've flagged to remember later
Intelligence from Connection
The power isn't in storing notes—it's in connecting them. A hiring decision links to the meeting where it was made, the calendar event that blocked the time, and the follow-up email you sent afterward.
When you ask a question, the answer draws from this web of connections. Not keyword matching. Not file searching. Semantic understanding of your personal knowledge graph.
That's what we mean by a note. And that's what makes Nexus Note different.