The AI workspace for your notes

Everyone takes notes. Almost nobody can find them. Your notes are in Apple Notes and Notion and Google Docs and Obsidian and a text file on your desktop and an email draft you sent to yourself and a physical notebook you carried for three months before switching to another app. Each tool holds a slice of your thinking. None of them can see the others. The note you wrote last month about a concept that's suddenly relevant today is in one of those places, but you can't remember which, and searching one app at a time is slow enough that you usually just rethink the thought from scratch. The problem was never taking notes. The problem is that your notes are fragmented across so many tools that the thinking you captured is effectively inaccessible.

Fabric is one place for every note you write, searchable by meaning, connected to your documents, research, and files, with an AI that helps you think across everything you've ever written down.

Write in a clean, native editor

Fabric's notes and docs editor supports Markdown natively, with a clean writing experience that doesn't get in the way of the thinking. Format with the syntax you know or use the toolbar. Link between notes, embed content, and write with AI assistance when you want help developing a thought.

The editor is designed for both quick captures and long-form writing. A three-line thought jotted between meetings and a ten-page strategy memo are both first-class objects in the same system, searchable the same way, connected to the same library.

Start from a blank note or use a template for structured formats: meeting notes, lecture notes, weekly reviews, book notes, brain dumps, and more in the template marketplace.

Find any note by meaning, not by title

The reason notes go unused is retrieval. You wrote something important. You can't remember when, what you called it, or which app it's in. Keyword search only works if you remember the exact words. Scrolling through a chronological list only works if you have time and patience.

AI search reads every note and searches by meaning. Ask "my thoughts about the onboarding redesign" or "the idea I had about subscription pricing" and find the note by the concept, not by the title or the date. The search works across every note in your library, alongside your PDFs, articles, voice memos, and every other content type.

This changes the economics of note-taking. You stop worrying about where to put a note or what to call it, because search handles retrieval regardless. The effort goes into capturing the thought, not into filing it.

AI that connects your thinking

The AI assistant treats your notes as a thinking partner's library. Ask it to connect ideas from notes written weeks apart. Ask it to summarise your thinking on a topic across multiple notes. Ask it to find contradictions between things you've written. Ask it to develop a half-formed thought by pulling in related material from your library.

This is where notes in Fabric differ most from notes in a standalone app. The AI reads across your notes and your documents, articles, voice memos, and everything else. A note about a project connects to the research paper you saved, the meeting transcript where the topic was discussed, and the article that inspired the idea. The connections form because everything is in one searchable system, not because you manually linked them.

The explorer and similar search surface relationships between notes visually. A note from three months ago sits next to one from yesterday because they're about the same concept. The connections you'd miss by browsing chronologically become visible.

Capture notes from anywhere, in any form

Notes happen in different contexts and different forms. At your desk, you type. On a walk, you speak. In a meeting, you record. On your phone, you jot a quick line. Reading an article, you annotate. Each input should feed the same system.

Type in notes and docs. Record a thought with AI voice notes and it's transcribed and searchable as text. Capture on your phone with quick capture via the mobile app. Forward an email with notes to email-to-note. Annotate a document or web page and the annotation becomes a note in your library. Every form of capture feeds the same searchable workspace.

Fabric syncs across devices, so a note started on your phone is continuable on your laptop. Nothing is trapped on one device.

Organised by meaning, not by maintenance

Most note-taking systems fail because they require organisation. You need to choose a folder, apply tags, maintain a structure. When you're busy, the maintenance slips, and the notes become a mess. The mess makes the system feel broken, so you stop using it and start a new one.

Fabric's smart organization tags and categorises notes by their content automatically. Notes about projects cluster with project material. Meeting notes group together. Research notes find their neighbours. The organisation happens without you maintaining it.

You can add your own structure on top: spaces for broad groupings, kanban boards for workflow stages, the canvas for spatial arrangement. But the baseline findability works without any structure, because search handles it. This is especially important for people managing ADHD, where the maintenance burden of traditional note systems is often the reason they fail.

Think spatially when you need to

Some thinking doesn't fit in a linear note. The canvas lets you spread notes, ideas, files, and references spatially. Map the structure of a project. Cluster ideas around a theme. Arrange notes alongside the sources that inspired them. The canvas draws from your library, so any note or file is draggable onto the spatial surface.

For collaborative thinking, the canvas supports real-time collaboration with multiplayer cursors and threaded comments. For solo thinking, it's a place to see the shape of your ideas before committing them to linear form.

Share and publish notes with control

When you want to share a note externally, publish it as a clean, shareable link with optional password protection and link analytics. Share meeting notes with someone who wasn't there. Publish a guide or a resource for your team. Distribute a set of notes with controlled access. Update the note and the link reflects the change.

For collaborative note-taking, shared spaces let multiple people write, edit, and search in the same workspace with real-time collaboration including live cursors, @mentions, and threaded comments.

Who uses Fabric for notes

Notes are universal. Students take lecture and study notes. Writers capture ideas, observations, and drafts. Researchers take notes alongside papers and sources for research projects. Founders and product managers capture decisions, ideas, and context. Consultants and freelancers take client notes per engagement. Educators write lesson plans and course notes. Anyone building a second brain or practicing journaling.

For structured approaches to note-taking, see the guides to note-taking basics, the Cornell method, evergreen notes, the Zettelkasten, building a second brain, and digital gardens.

Get started

Put every note in one place and stop losing your thinking to scattered apps. Try Fabric free.

Browse note templates to get started with structured formats. Comparing tools? See why people choose Fabric as the best AI note-taking app, the best Notion alternative, and the best Evernote alternative.

FAQs

Can I search all my notes by meaning?

Yes. AI search reads every note and searches by meaning. Describe the idea and find the note, regardless of what you titled it or when you wrote it.

Can the AI connect ideas across my notes?

Yes. The AI assistant can find connections between notes written weeks apart, summarise your thinking on a topic, find contradictions, or help you develop a thought by pulling in related material from your library.

Does Fabric support Markdown?

Yes. Notes and docs supports Markdown natively. Write with the syntax you know.

Can I capture notes by voice?

Yes. AI voice notes record and transcribe spoken thoughts. The transcript is searchable alongside your typed notes.

Can I take notes on my phone?

Yes. The mobile app and quick capture let you type, speak, or save a link in seconds. Everything syncs across devices.

Do notes need to be organised into folders?

No. Smart organization tags notes by content automatically. Search works by meaning regardless of how you've organised. You can add structure with spaces and tags if you want, but it's not required for findability.

Can I import notes from other apps?

Yes. Fabric connects to Notion and Google Drive. Markdown files from Obsidian, Logseq, Bear, or any other tool can be imported directly. Forward notes from email to email-to-note.

Are there note templates?

Yes. The template marketplace includes templates for meeting notes, lecture notes, weekly reviews, book notes, brain dumps, and more.

Can I search across notes and other file types together?

Yes. Notes are searchable alongside PDFs, articles, voice memos, images, and everything else. A note about a project and the documents it relates to are findable in the same search.

Can I share notes with others?

Yes. Publish any note with a shareable link, optionally with password protection. For collaborative note-taking, share a space and work together with real-time collaboration.

Can I use the canvas for note-taking?

Yes. The canvas lets you spread notes spatially, arrange ideas, and see relationships. Useful for brainstorming, planning, and thinking that doesn't fit in a linear format.

Is this good for people with ADHD?

Yes. Fabric doesn't require folder maintenance or organisational upkeep. Save notes in any form, and search finds them by meaning. The system works even when you don't maintain it. See Fabric for ADHD.

How is this different from Notion or Evernote?

Notion and Evernote are page-based note apps that require deliberate structure. Fabric adds meaning-based AI search across notes and every other content type, an AI assistant that connects and synthesises across your thinking, automatic organisation by content, and a workspace where notes live alongside PDFs, voice memos, images, and everything else. The difference matters when your notes span years and you need to find or connect ideas across thousands of entries.

Are my notes private?

Yes. Your content is encrypted and only visible to you unless you choose to share it. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant.