Typehall guides
Practical writing about browser notes: keeping them safe, writing them well, finding them later. Each guide covers one problem and links to the next.
Keep & recover
Local notes are mortal. These guides keep them alive.
- Back up and restore notes — whole-workspace backups, merge vs replace, and what cannot be recovered.
- Exporting notes — .txt, .md, .html, PDF, and moving notes between browsers or devices.
Write
Plain text and Markdown, rendered safely.
- Markdown notepad — Edit/Preview modes, what renders, what never does.
- Quick capture workflows — scratchpad, checklists, templates, and focus mode.
Organize
Find anything from ten notes to ten hundred.
- Organizing notes — folders, tags, search, sorting, favorites, filters, archive.
- Linked notes and backlinks — [[links]], automatic backlinks, and the note graph.
Capture daily
Small repeating workflows.
- Daily notes — one note per day for journals, logs, and plans.
Work offline & local-first
Why this notepad works the way it does.
- Offline notepad — what works with no connection, and honest limits.
- Local-first notes — benefits, trade-offs, and who should pick a cloud app instead.
Use cases
Ready-made workflows with one-click templates for common jobs.
- Meeting notes — agenda, notes, and checkbox actions.
- Project notes — one running note per project.
- Weekly review — close the week, plan the next.
- Reading notes — retain books, articles, and web reads.
- Decision log — record what was decided and why.
- Retrospective notes — Start, Stop, Continue with owned actions.
- Research notes — collect sources, link, synthesize.
- Travel notes — itinerary and packing, offline-ready.