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Text notes are freeform notes that live on the canvas beside your conversation branches. They help you annotate the workspace, keep track of decisions, and leave yourself or teammates breadcrumbs about what to do next.

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What text notes are for

Session notes

Capture what the workspace is for, what you are testing, or what still needs review.

Checklists

Keep a short list of open questions, next actions, or review criteria.

Wayfinding

Label clusters of branches so a large workspace stays readable when you zoom out.

Human context

Leave notes for collaborators that should stay visible on the canvas but out of model prompts.

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How to create one

Open the canvas context menu

Right-click empty canvas space.

Choose New text note here

NodePad drops a new note at that position.

Type your annotation

Write whatever annotation or checklist you need and place it near the relevant branches.
Text notes are not model instructions. They are not automatically injected into the prompt context for nearby branches. If you want instructions to affect the model, put them in your message, in the workspace instructions, or in a branching strategy that keeps different prompt intents separate.

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Patterns that work

Put one note near the top-left of a workspace that says what the entire canvas is trying to solve.
Keep a note beside a cluster of branches that records the choice you made after comparing them.
Add a note with the standards you want to check before exporting, sharing, or shipping the result.

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Continue

The canvas

How notes sit beside branches and edges in a workspace.

References

When you do want context to move into a prompt, use @.