If you live on your keyboard
Why it’s for you: You like doing things with the keyboard, without reaching for the mouse all the time. In CopyNotes, what you do most has its own key. And you learn it like an instrument: the more you use it, the faster you get.
Your day-to-day: You create a line, put it inside another with Tab, move it up or down with Alt + arrows, and write a comment under it with Ctrl + Enter. Type / and a menu appears to add things, like a table. All without taking your hands off the keyboard. And if you prefer the mouse or your finger, it works the same.
On a Mac, ⌘ instead of Ctrl.
If you take notes in meetings or in class
Why it’s for you: In a meeting or in class, everything moves fast. You need to write as fast as people talk, without hunting for buttons or menus.
Your day-to-day: You write straight through, press Tab to put the detail under each topic, and when you’re done you copy the whole note with the button next to the title and paste it into an email. In the email it looks just like in CopyNotes: the title on top and each point at its level.
If you write, study or create
Why it’s for you: Nobody thinks in giant paragraphs: we think in loose ideas, and ideas inside other ideas. CopyNotes helps you sort them into levels, like a table of contents. And since the screen is simple, you focus on the idea, not on how it looks.
Your day-to-day: You write the main topic and keep putting ideas inside it, one under another. If an idea belongs somewhere else, you move it with the keyboard. Alt + → zooms into a line so you see it alone, as if it were a separate note; Alt + ← takes you back.
If you work with AI
Why it’s for you: We don’t only write for ourselves anymore: we write for a machine to read.
Your day-to-day: You keep what you’ll ask the AI for: instructions, ideas, bits of code. When you need it, you download all your notes as a single file made for AI and hand it over: they arrive organized, the way you wrote them.
If you code
Why it’s for you: Lines inside other lines look a lot like how code is written. And you can add code blocks with a comment under them.
Your day-to-day: It’s not where you keep the company’s final documentation: it’s where you work through the day. You jot down the bugs you found, think through how something will work before coding it, or keep the commands you use most.
If you care about privacy
Why it’s for you: Your notes are saved on your device, and you don’t need to create an account.
Your day-to-day: You write a journal, business ideas or things you’re not ready to show. If one day you want your notes on your phone and your computer, you turn on the cloud: before leaving your device, your notes are locked with a key.
If you follow a note-taking method
Why it’s for you: For you, taking notes isn’t just storing: it’s thinking.
Your day-to-day: You keep a single note called Inbox or Today and drop everything that comes to mind there: a link, a phrase, a pending task. At the end of the day you keep what matters and delete the rest. And if you use Zettelkasten (one idea per card, with the cards connected to each other): you write each idea in its own note and connect them by typing [[ and the name of the other note.
