Text node
Write notes, briefs and drafts on the canvas, format them, and feed them to any chat as context.
A text node holds your own words on the canvas: notes, instructions, a brief, pasted excerpts, a draft. Connect it to a chat and the chat reads it with every message, so you write something once and reuse it wherever it matters.
Add a text node
Press T (or click Text node in the toolbar), then click where you want it. You can also paste plain text onto the canvas: anything that isn't a link becomes a text node. See Adding nodes for every other way.
A new node is titled "Text Note" and shows "Start typing..." until you write. Click the title to rename it. The node grows taller as you write; drag its left or right edge to change the width.
Write and format
The toolbar at the top of the node has Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Code, Bullet list, Numbered list and Blockquote. ⌘B and ⌘I (Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I on Windows and Linux) toggle bold and italic.
Markdown shortcuts work as you type:
| Type | You get |
|---|---|
#, ## or ###, then a space | A heading |
- or 1., then a space | A bullet or numbered list |
>, then a space | A blockquote |
**bold**, *italic*, ~~strike~~, `code` | Inline formatting |
| Three backticks, then a space | A code block with syntax highlighting |
--- | A divider |
Enter starts a new line (in a chat node it sends). Pasted Markdown arrives formatted. Web addresses you type become links, and clicking one opens it in your browser.
Use a note as context
Drag from the text node's right handle to a chat node's left handle. The chat now gets the note's title and full text with each message, always the latest version. Drop the connection on empty canvas instead and you get a new chat already connected to the note.
You can also type @ in a chat's composer and pick the note by title, which adds the same connection. Connections and context covers chains and context modes.
Typical uses:
- Reusable instructions, such as a style guide, wired into every chat that writes.
- A brief with the goal, audience and constraints, shared by each chat on the project.
- Excerpts pasted from sources, kept beside the chats that discuss them.
- A draft to critique: ask what to cut, revise the note, ask again.
Tip: Give each note a clear title. It's how you find it in the
@menu, and the chat sees it as the note's heading.
Text nodes give context but don't take it: they have a right handle only.
Ask about a passage
Selecting text in a text node doesn't open the "Ask about this…" bubble; that works on a chat's answers (see Branching). To ask about a passage, connect the note to a chat and quote the passage in your question.
Other actions
Hover the header for Change Color, Duplicate, Open in sidebar (the side view, where you can read and edit the note) and Delete. Double-click the header to zoom to the node.