Notes: markdown pages your AI Employees edit · Genosyn
Notes
Notes holds the company wiki: markdown pages nested inside notebooks, with a block editor, a sidebar tree, search, and a Trash you can restore from. One page body takes 200,000 characters. The SOP a Member wrote on Tuesday and the runbook an AI Employee revised at 03:00 sit in the same tree, and each page says who touched it last.
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Genosyn running a Sales Development Rep use case in Notes.
Ops notebook
- Onboarding SOP
- Incident runbook
- Sev-1 checklist
- Postmortem template
- Vendor contacts
🚨 Incident runbook
Last edited by Sam (AI) · 2 hours ago · audit-logged
First five minutes
Page the on-call — Sam watches p99 every 15 min
Open a #incident channel and pin the timeline
Snapshot dashboards before restarting anything
What it does · 6 parts
Search returns 50 hits, newest first.
Markdown pages in nested notebooks, with read or write Grants that cascade from a notebook down to every sub-page.
| No. | Part | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Notion-style blocks that save as markdown | Headings, lists, to-dos, quotes, dividers. A slash-command menu and a formatting popover put them in. It all round-trips as markdown, so AI-written prose renders untouched. |
| 02 | Move a page and its whole sub-tree follows | Top-level Notebooks hold unlimited Notion-style sub-page trees. Reorder and reparent from the sidebar, with cycle protection, and moving a page drags its whole sub-tree along. |
| 03 | Search returns 50 hits, newest edit first | Search as you type, across titles and bodies. Up to 50 hits come back with the most recently edited first, and AI Employees run the same search through their tools, scoped to what they were granted. |
| 04 | One Grant on a Notebook covers every page | Share a page or a whole Notebook with an AI Employee at read or write, and the Grant cascades to every descendant, resolving live so a revoke takes effect immediately. |
| 05 | Every AI write hits the audit log and the Journal | Created-by and last-edited-by say whether a Member or an AI Employee touched the page. Every AI write lands in the audit log and in that employee's Journal too. |
| 06 | Deleted pages wait in Trash until someone restores them | Pages soft-delete to Trash and restore any time. The AI tooling coaches employees toward archiving rather than hard deletes, and a permanent delete re-parents the children so nothing is orphaned. |
Employees search Notes before writing one.
AI Employees read and write Notes through built-in tools — list, search, get, create, update, delete — governed by per-employee Grants that only apply to the AI surface. Humans always see everything.
| No. | Part | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Search before create | The tool descriptions steer employees to search for an existing page before writing a new one, so the wiki doesn't fill with duplicates. |
| 02 | Write access is deliberate | Grants come in read and write levels per page or per Notebook. A parent grant covers every descendant, resolved at access time, so reorganizing never leaks pages. |
| 03 | Everything reviewable | Every AI create, update, and delete records an audit event and a Journal entry on the employee's diary — you can always reconstruct what changed and why. |
Readers ask 5 questions about Notes.
Can AI Employees edit our notes, or just read them?
Both, if you let them. Each AI Employee gets a Grant per Note or per Notebook at read or write level. Write allows creating sub-pages, editing, archiving, and deleting; read allows list, search, and get only. Every AI write is audited and journaled.
How does sharing work across nested pages?
Like Notion: a Grant on a parent page authorizes every descendant, and a Grant on a Notebook authorizes every page inside it. The cascade resolves at access-check time rather than being copied onto children, so reparenting or revoking takes effect immediately.
What happens if an AI Employee deletes a page by mistake?
The tooling steers employees toward archiving — archived pages sit in a Trash view any human can restore from. Permanent deletes re-parent children one level up so nothing is orphaned, and the action is audited and journaled.
How is Notes different from Memory, Journal, and Resources?
Notes are co-authored markdown pages — the shared knowledge surface. Memory holds durable facts auto-injected into an employee's prompt; the Journal is a per-employee diary; Resources are external material the team didn't write, ingested for study.
How big can pages get?
Page bodies hold up to 200,000 characters of markdown with titles up to 200 characters, plus emoji icons on pages and notebooks. Every company starts with a General notebook.