Note kinds

Most notes in Smritsavant are free-form rich documents. A few structured behaviors exist on top of that today, and a family of dedicated note kinds is in development. This page is precise about which is which.

What ships today

Daily notes. The first time you open a canvas each calendar day, a dated daily note is created for you from the Daily template. You can also create a note dated to any period by double-clicking an empty column in the Chronicle — real back-dating for journaling after the fact.

Templates. Eight built-ins — Meeting, Book, Project, Decision, Daily, Recipe, Research, and 1:1 — insertable via /template or the command palette. Save any note as a template with ⌘⇧T. (On Windows and Linux, read ⌘ as Ctrl.)

Mode suggestions. When a note’s content looks like it wants structure — a growing checklist, a recurring log — Smritsavant may passively suggest a mode for it. Suggestions never apply themselves; nothing changes unless you click Apply.

What’s in development

A dedicated note kinds system — Kanban boards, trackers with logging widgets, daily notes with live data blocks, and subscribed feed notes — is designed and in progress, but not in the current build. We list it here because it shapes where the product is going, not because you can use it yet; this page will change when it ships, and the changelog will say so.

Two commitments already locked into that design, because they follow from the privacy architecture:

• Any note kind that fetches external data (feeds, weather, sports scores) will go through the same audited, allowlisted network gate as everything else — with a master “pause all external feeds” switch.
• Converting between kinds will stay lossless where possible (a Kanban flattens to a list, not to nothing).

In the meantime

Structured workflows people actually run today with the shipped toolkit:

• Task boards — a note per column using task lists, side by side in a split editor.
• Trackers — a daily note plus a table; typed properties (weight:number, mood:text) make entries searchable.
• Reading lists — the Book template plus a status property, filtered with status:reading.