Notes

Notes are the place in Pond where you write. They hold prose, questions, drafts, and references to other items in the Thread — the working surface on which the Thread’s argument is composed. A Note is freeform: type as you would in any editor, with the ability to reference any Fragment, Note, or Artefact already in the Thread by @-mention.

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Where Notes live

• Inside a Thread, on the Notebook tab — see Workspace.
• In the Library, under the Notes tab — every Note you’ve written, surfaced alongside your Artefacts.

You can start a new Note from anywhere with the New Note button (Home, Library, or inside a Thread).

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Writing in a Note

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@-mention to reference

Inside a Thread’s Notebook, type @ to reference any Fragment, Note, or Artefact that’s already in the Thread. The picker scopes to the Thread’s contents — it’s a way to weave together material you’ve already gathered, not a search across your whole Pond. Referenced Fragments are rendered inline as cards with their source attribution, so the Note reads as a single composition rather than a list of links.

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Connect referenced Fragments

When a Note references two or more Fragments, an inline chip appears beneath them suggesting you connect those Fragments. Pick Extends, Supports, or Contrasts — or open the menu for a custom type — to record the Connection in place. The relational layer grows directly out of your writing — no need to leave the editor to log a Connection.

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Promoting a Note to a Move

A Note becomes a Move when you give it a type from the Move type badge in the editor — #Thesis, #Question, #Tension, and so on. Moves are how a Thread gains direction, and how Pond’s intelligent features read what the Thread is doing. See Moves for the type vocabulary, Pond-authored Moves, and where this is heading.