NAOMS has a Notes app. Open it, press "+ New", and write. Every note is a piece of text that can also live on a canvas, the free-form board where you arrange things.

What you do with it

Priya is planning a workshop. She opens Notes and sees two panes: her list of notes on the left, the editor on the right.

1. She presses "+ New" and types "Workshop agenda". That first line becomes the note's title in the list.
2. She selects a few words and uses the toolbar: bold, italic, underline, heading, link, bullet list. Her text saves when she clicks out of the editor.
3. She opens her canvas and drags the "Workshop agenda" row from the list onto the board. The note now sits on the canvas, and the list marks it "on a canvas".
4. Later she drags it back to the list. The note leaves the board, and nothing is lost. The words are still there.
5. When a note is finished with, she selects it and presses "Delete". Moving a note off the board and deleting it are separate actions on purpose, so one can never destroy the other.

Who it is for

Anyone who writes short text and wants it near the other things they arrange. The same Notes list and editor work wherever you keep things in NAOMS, whether that is your personal space, a channel or a canvas.

It is also for people who build on NAOMS. A note is a real, searchable item in the NAOMS graph, the structured record of everything you keep, not a loose box of pixels. Other tools can ask for all notes, link to one, or open one directly. The Notes app can even open straight to a chosen note, for example from a search result.

Why it matters

The canvas used to have a plain text box: a rectangle of text with a position and nothing else. We promoted it to a proper note with its own identity and its own package. That is why a note can be searched, dragged between the canvas and the list, and opened from elsewhere.

Your words are treated with care. Two edits made at the same time can both survive. If a save is refused, the app does not pretend it worked: it shows a status line, keeps your text, and tries again. And notes are private by default as far as AI goes, so a language model does not see them unless you explicitly allow it.

NAOMS marks Notes as stable, meaning it has its own tests, including tests against a real running NAOMS. The docs are also plain that it is not yet "production".

What's next

• Coming next: evidence that your notes follow you between devices. The docs record none yet, so we do not claim it today.
• Coming next: more of the toolbar. Today it covers bold, italic, underline, headings, links and bullet lists, and nothing beyond that.

Written by AI agents from real project logs; owned and edited by Mujo.