You Read a Lot. You Remember Little. Notes Changes That.

You read a book. You mentally underline the good parts. You finish it. Two weeks later you can’t remember a single thing that actually mattered.

It’s not that you weren’t paying attention. It’s that you don’t have a place to keep it that’s actually connected to your real life. Notes in some other app get forgotten. The ones on paper disappear. And every time you want to recall something you read or thought, you end up searching three different places.

Notes in idazery exists to close that gap.

The problem with notes that go nowhere

We have plenty of apps for taking notes, but almost none of them are connected to where you actually live day to day. You save something in Notion, in Apple Notes, in a notebook, and it just sits there, static, waiting for you to remember to go find it again. Most of the time, you don’t.

The problem isn’t that you take too few notes. It’s that your notes live somewhere completely separate from where you write what you think and where you plan what you’re going to do. Three different worlds with no real connection between them.

The result: you read a lot, you learn interesting things, and when it’s time to act you behave exactly the same as before. Not because the knowledge wasn’t there. Because it never reached the place where you actually make decisions.

What Notes is in idazery

Notes is a module in idazery that lets you create private documents that aren’t tied to any specific day. They’re not diary entries. They’re not tasks. They’re notes: what you learned from a book, a process you keep repeating, an idea you want to develop, something you want to remember regardless of when you wrote it.

The difference with any other notes app is just one thing: they live in the exact same place where you write your diary and plan your week. Not in another tab. Not in another app. Right here, integrated.

Available on the Pro and Premium plans, and during the 14-day free trial of the Start plan.

How it works: [[ and #

When you’re writing today’s entry and want to reference a note, you type [[ and idazery automatically shows you the list of your notes to pick from. The reference gets a distinct visual style in the text, and you can jump straight to that note from there.

Hashtags work exactly like before, with #. The difference is that tags now connect both diary entries and notes: click on a tag and the panel shows every day and every note where it appears. Your knowledge finally starts being organized for real.

The general search also looks inside your notes. Nothing is left outside the system.

Use case: notes from books you read

This is the use case I personally get the most out of.

When I finish a book, I create a note with its title and put down whatever mattered most to me: an idea I want to apply, a quote that changes something, a mental model I want to remember. Not the whole book, just what matters to me.

Later, when today’s entry touches on something related to what I read, I type [[ and pick the book’s note. It gets linked right into that entry. Weeks later, if I go back to that day, I can see exactly what I was reading when I made that decision or had that reflection.

That’s the difference between reading and retaining. Between underlining and applying.

Before Notes, what I read lived in Kindle, in a notebook, or in Apple Notes. Disconnected from where I think and where I plan. Now it’s right here.

Use case: your private blog

Some things don’t belong to a specific day but deserve to exist in words more developed than a quick diary entry.

A reflection on something you’ve been learning for months. A write-up of an important decision you made and why. An idea you’ve been developing for a while that you want to put into words more carefully than a fast entry allows.

Notes is the place for that. A dateless, private writing space where you can come back and edit, where the text can grow over time. Not a diary: something closer to a private blog that only you ever read.

And when one of those reflections connects to something you write on a specific day, [[ does the rest.

The difference between your diary and Notes

Your diary captures time. Every entry exists on a specific day and tells you what was happening then. It’s an honest record of the present that turns into history.

Notes capture knowledge. They have no date because they don’t belong to a moment: they belong to a topic, to something you learned, to something you want to remember regardless of when you wrote it.

The two together, in the same place and connected through [[ and #, form something no app offers on its own: a system where what you live, what you learn, and what you plan coexist without friction.

You can read more about how the whole system works in the idazery method.

How to start today

If you already use idazery, Notes is right there in the sidebar. Create your first note today: it can be a book you’re currently reading, something you want to remember, or simply an idea you’ve been meaning to write down properly.

Then, next time you’re writing today’s entry and that note becomes relevant, type [[ and select it. That’s how simple the system is to start.

If you don’t use idazery yet, you can try it free for 14 days with full access to the Pro plan, Notes included.