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Notes

Your second brain — beside your tasks, projects, and habits. Not in a separate app.

Most people split their thinking across too many places. The meeting notes are in Notion. The spec is in Google Docs. The idea you had on Tuesday is in a phone note you’ll never find again. And none of it is anywhere near the tasks and projects it belongs to.

Build Momentum Notes keeps what you know next to what you’re doing. One login. No context switching. No broken links between thinking and execution.

Capture, organize, and find everything — without leaving your system.

Notes editor with formatting toolbar

Capture first, file later

Everything lands in the inbox. Nothing gets lost in the filing decision.

The biggest enemy of good note-taking isn’t laziness — it’s the moment you have to decide where something goes before you’ve even finished writing it. That friction is why ideas end up in random places or nowhere at all.

Build Momentum Notes has an inbox for a reason. Drop the thought, the spec, the meeting summary, the half-formed idea. File it when you’re ready. The capture never waits for the organization.

  • Inbox — a frictionless landing zone before you decide where something lives
  • Favorites — star the notes you return to constantly so they’re always one click away
  • Full library — everything in one searchable place when you need to go looking

Organize your way

Notebooks, tags, and contexts — use one or all three.

Different notes need different homes. A project spec belongs with the project. A journal entry belongs in a personal notebook. A quick reference belongs wherever you’ll think to look for it.

Notes sidebar: inbox, notebooks, and library
  • Notebooks — group notes into buckets that match how your mind organizes work. Create one per project, per client, per area of life.
  • Tags — cross-cut across notebooks when a note belongs to more than one context
  • Contexts — the same @ system you use in tasks, applied to notes. Everything speaks the same organizational language.
  • Project Notebooks — notes tied directly to a project in the Projects module. Specs, decisions, and meeting logs live next to the milestones and tasks they belong to — not in a doc that drifts away.

The editor

Rich enough to write properly. Simple enough to actually use.

Notes that are hard to read don’t get read. Build Momentum’s editor gives you everything you need for long-form clarity without burying you in toolbar options.

  • Headings, paragraphs, bullet and numbered lists
  • Bold, italic, underline, text color and highlights
  • Inline images for screenshots, diagrams, and visual references
  • Links for referencing sources and external tools
  • Text alignment for structured layouts
  • Emoji picker for notes that need a little personality

Write once. Come back months later and still understand it.

Project notebooks

Specs and decisions that travel with the project — not the tool you were in.

Every project in Build Momentum can have its own dedicated notebook. When you archive a project or hand it off to future-you, the notes come with it. No hunting through Notion databases. No Googling your own decisions.

  • Meeting notes attached to the initiative they belong to
  • Specs and links that live next to milestones and tasks — not in a forgotten wiki
  • Context that survives the gap between starting a project and picking it back up three weeks later

Templates

Stop rewriting the same structure from scratch.

Weekly reviews. Meeting agendas. Project kick-offs. Client briefs. If you write the same kind of note more than once, it should be a template. Build Momentum Pro and Ultimate users can create reusable templates for any repeating workflow — so the structure is already there when you sit down to write.

How it fits your system

Notes don’t live in isolation. They connect everything.

  • Project Notebooks keep specs next to milestones, KPIs, and tasks — one pane for the whole initiative
  • Same contexts as Tasks@work, @personal, @client mean the same thing everywhere
  • Same tags across modules — filter notes and tasks with the same vocabulary
  • No export needed — reference a note and act on it in the same session, same login, same screen

Plan limits

Start free. Expand as your knowledge base grows.

Free

Up to 50 notes, up to 5 notebooks, basic formatting and organization

Pro

Up to 5,000 notes, up to 100 notebooks, enhanced rich text, template-driven workflows

Ultimate

Unlimited notes and notebooks, full power-user note workflows

Your notes don’t disappear when you hit a limit — you’ll know when it’s time to upgrade.

Vs. standalone note apps

The strength isn’t the editor. It’s the proximity.

Notion

Genuinely powerful for relational databases and team wikis. Also genuinely easy to build a system so complex that nobody updates it. No native connection to your habits, tasks, or goals — everything lives in Notion or you maintain the bridge yourself.

Apple Notes / Google Keep

Fast capture. Zero organization depth. Nothing connects to your projects or habits. Fine for shopping lists, not for running your work.

Build Momentum Notes

Not trying to out-feature Notion. The point is that your notes live in the same system as your tasks, projects, habits, and goals — so the gap between knowing and doing is as small as possible.

FAQ

Do I need Notes if I already use Notion?

Depends on how you use Notion. If you use it as a team wiki or relational database, keep it. If you use it mainly for personal notes and project specs, Build Momentum Notes covers that with the advantage of everything living in one system alongside your tasks and habits.

Are there image size limits?

The in-app editor will let you know if an image can’t be inserted. Check the error message for the current limit — we don’t publish a number here because it can change with app updates.

What are templates and which plan do I need?

Templates are structured note starting points for repeating workflows — reviews, meeting agendas, project kick-offs. They’re available on Pro and Ultimate plans.

What happens to Project Notebooks if I delete a project?

Check the in-app deletion modal before confirming — it shows exactly what will be removed. As with all data decisions, the modal reflects the live behavior of the app.

Stop splitting your thinking across tools that don’t talk to each other.

Your notes belong next to your work — not one tab switch away from it.

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