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Three panes: workspace on the left, prose in the middle, outline and history on the right. Keyboard-first. Markdown-native.

Acme Eng / Plans / Q3 Engineering Plan

Q3 Engineering Plan

We're scoping the migration to the new ingestion pipeline this quarter. The goal is fewer moving parts, a cleaner contract with the storage layer, and a measurable drop in p95 latency.

  • Lock the new schema with @sam
  • Spike: streaming writer prototype
  • Migrate the staging cluster
  • Plan the cutover window
// migrations/2026_04_27_pipeline.ts
export const schema = {
name: "ingestion_v2",
version: 2,
up: async () => { ... }
};

Cutover plan reviewed by priya with notes folded back into this doc.

Risks & mitigations

“The biggest risk is silent data loss during the cutover. We mitigate by double-writing for 48 hours and diffing tail samples nightly.”
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Markdown, live

What you type is what you keep.

No proprietary block format. Every doc is a real markdown file you can paste into a terminal, a PR, or a wiki — and it will look exactly like you expect.

# Launch checklist
 
A short list before we cut **v0.7**.
 
- [x] Tag the release
- [ ] Update changelog
- [ ] @priya to draft the announcement
 
> Ship it on Friday morning, not Friday night.

Launch checklist

A short list before we cut v0.7.

  • Tag the release
  • Update changelog
  • priyato draft the announcement
Ship it on Friday morning, not Friday night.
Search

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migration5 results · 38ms
  • Q3 Engineering PlanAcme Eng / Plans

    We're scoping the migration to the new ingestion pipeline this quarter…

  • Onboarding RunbookAcme Eng / Ops

    Day-one migration from the legacy laptop image to the new one.

  • Postmortem — Apr 12Acme Eng / Postmortems

    Root cause traced to a partial migration of cache keys after the deploy.

  • Storage RFCAcme Eng / RFCs

    Considered three options for the migration path: lift-and-shift, double-write, or…

  • Weekly sync — 04/22Acme Eng / Syncs

    Sam: blocking item is the staging migration window — needs an SRE pair.

Cross-links

Docs that point at each other.

Mention a doc, link a doc, pin a doc. Notes builds a quiet graph of how your team's knowledge actually fits together — no manual wiki hierarchy to babysit.

Team Charter
pinned
Storage RFC
linked
Q3 Plan
pinned
On-call Runbook
linked
Apr 12 Postmortem
linked
Versions

Quietly versioned. Always recoverable.

Every save is a version. Every version has a diff. No gigabyte audit log, no per-block comparison UI — just enough history to undo a bad edit or remember what changed.

  1. v12Added cutover planyou · just now
  2. v11Reviewed riskspriya · 1h ago
    - The biggest risk is silent failure during cutover.
    + The biggest risk is silent data loss during the cutover.
    + We mitigate by double-writing for 48 hours.
  3. v10First draft of timelineyou · yesterday
  4. v9Imported notes from RFCsam · Apr 22
Lifecycle

How a doc flows.

Four steps from a blank cursor to durable team knowledge. No page-tree, no permission matrix, no "convert to database" prompt.

  1. 01Draft

    Open a blank doc. Start typing markdown. No template picker.

  2. 02Mention

    @-mention a teammate. They get a single, calm notification.

  3. 03Pin

    Pin the doc to your team's left rail so nobody loses it.

  4. 04Version

    Each save is a version. Roll back any change in two clicks.

What's in the box

Eight things, done well.

Notes is a small surface area on purpose. Each of these does its job and stays out of your way.

Markdown that just works

Real markdown end-to-end — heading levels, lists, code fences, tables. Paste it anywhere; it still reads.

Mentions + linking

@-mention people and [[doc]] cross-links. One quiet notification per mention. No 'everyone' blasts.

@pri
PPriya Shah@priya
PPranav Roy@pranav
PPierce Lee@pierce
Pinned docs

Pin a doc to a workspace and it lives at the top of every left rail. No deeper hierarchy required.

Fast full-text search

Indexed across every doc in every workspace you can read. Sub-100ms typical, with phrase highlighting.

Lightweight history

Every save is a version. Diff any two. Roll back without ceremony. No 'branches and merges' UI.

Per-team privacy

Workspace = privacy boundary. Two roles: member and admin. That's it.

Slash commands

Type / to insert a heading, todo, code fence, divider, or quote. Five blocks. No 60-item menu.

/head
HeadingH1
Todo[]
Code```
Divider---
Quote>
Keyboard-first editing

Cmd-B, Cmd-I, Cmd-K palette, / for blocks, [[ for doc-links. Mouse optional.

Cmd BBold
Cmd IItalic
Cmd KPalette
Cmd /Block menu
[[Doc link
@Mention
Yours forever

Your notes leave with you.

We don't trap your knowledge in a custom format. Every word you write in Notes is portable, exportable, and yours.

Plain markdown

No proprietary block format. Every doc is a real .md file.

Per-note export

Download any note as Markdown with a single click.

Workspace zip

One-click full-workspace export. No 'contact support' gate.

API + webhooks

Sync to git, S3, or your own knowledge base. We document everything.

What's missing on purpose

All the things Notes won't do.

We picked a small set of things to do well. Here's what we deliberately left out — and don't plan to add.

  • No databases-as-tables
  • No Notion-style block soup
  • No 'AI write for me' button
  • No 200-template gallery
  • No required custom views
  • No proprietary export format
  • No 'wiki' page hierarchy you have to babysit
  • No Notion-style 17-permission models
  • No real-time cursor circus
  • No emoji-reaction inbox
In the wild

Three teams, three shapes.

Notes is general enough to shape itself around how a small team already works — without forcing a structure on you.

Engineering team runbooks

On-call playbooks, incident postmortems, RFCs. Pin the runbook, mention the on-call, version the response.

98 docs · 12 pinned
Founder's weekly journal

One private workspace. One doc per week. Mention investors and advisors when you want to thread a topic through.

52 entries / year
Open-source contributor handbook

Public-feeling docs your team can paste links to. Markdown export keeps everything portable to GitHub or a static site.

1-click GH export
FAQ

Questions, answered short.

The honest version. If something's missing here, it probably means we haven't decided yet — ask us.

Can I use Notes as a company-wide knowledge base?
Yes — that's the primary use case. Workspaces map to teams; pinned docs surface the canonical reads. There's no separate 'wiki' product to learn.
Does it support code blocks and syntax highlighting?
Yes. Triple-backtick fenced code blocks with a monospace font and tinted highlighting for the languages we ship — JS/TS, Python, Go, Rust, SQL, JSON, shell.
How does export work?
Per-note Markdown download is one click. Per-workspace Zip export is one click. The API exposes everything if you want to mirror to git or S3.
Are there real-time collaborative cursors?
No. Two people can edit the same doc; we merge on save. We chose not to ship a Google-Docs-style cursor circus — the focus is on prose, not on watching pixels move.
What about attachments and images?
Inline images and small file attachments per note. Big files belong in your storage of choice — link them in.
When does Notes ship?
Notes is currently planned. Sign up early and we'll bring you in the first cohort once the editor and search are stable.
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