A person writing in a paper notebook at a cafe window table, laptop closed beside a coffee.

CEDX Notes · Workplace

Capture everything.
File it or flag it.

Three hundred twenty notes, 80% filed into 48 notebooks. The rest are not lost — they are queued: 203 in the orphan queue, 75 at high risk, and 71 share-sprawl items still open on anyone-with-link.

Every notes app grows a parking lot of untitled scraps. This one scores it: the note called “Random sticky, parking lot” carries orphan risk 99 and has been cold for 172 days. The queue is the feature.

notes.cedxsystems.com — live build
CEDX Notes overview: notes, notebooks, orphan-risk and share-sprawl cards, an opens-vs-creates chart and the capture-health ring.

Runs on demo data. Notes and people named on screen belong to the demo workspace.

320 notes, 80% filedtarget 92% · 203 in the orphan queue
66K opens in 30 daysacross 48 notebooks
71 high share-sprawl itemsanyone-with-link shares still live

What it is

Three things a notes app has to get right.

Notebooks with their own hygiene grades

Forty-eight containers — team, personal and shared — with note counts, shared counts and orphan flags per row. The incident war-room notebook holds 35 notes with zero orphans; the research scrap notebook holds 54 with 14 flagged. You can see which containers work.

  • 1,261 notes summed across notebooks
  • 148 orphan flags at notebook level
  • Opens per notebook — war room at 13K
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Notebooks with their own hygiene grades

Search that answers, with sources

Ask what the partner asked for on the last call and the answer comes back with its sources attached — n1 the call note, n7 the handoff — plus a related-by-meaning cluster underneath, so the pricing scrap and the shared deck surface too.

  • Answer cites n1 and n7 by id
  • Semantic cluster: partnerships and channel accounts
  • 27 results for the demo seed, typed and ranked
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Search that answers, with sources

Tags that show their weight

Sixty tags with notes, notebooks, orphans and opens per row. #meeting is heaviest at 86 notes; #do-not-share carries 67; #needs-file carries 53 — including five orphans, which is the tag doing its job.

  • Orphan count per tag — 43 tags carry some
  • Opens per tag — #meeting at 22K
  • Heavy (≥20) filter for the long tail
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Tags that show their weight

Product tour

Four screens, captured from the running build.

Not a mockup and not a concept deck. This is what opens at /app/notes.

notes.cedxsystems.com
CEDX Notes Overview screen.CEDX Notes Notebooks screen.CEDX Notes Search screen.CEDX Notes Tags screen.

01 — Overview

The capture layer's own health check

Filed 80% against a 92% target. The alerts name the work: expire the external counsel share on the MSA notes, file or archive the parking-lot sticky, revoke the stale anyone-with-link shares on the pricing scrap.

  • Capture health ring: 80% filed, score 72
  • Notes by status: 163 active, 46 pinned
  • Do-this-next queue with impact scores

02 — Notebooks

Containers, graded

Shared notebooks show their shared counts; personal ones show their owners. Localization holds 14 notes, 13 of them shared, with 2 orphans — a notebook working exactly as intended.

  • Kind per notebook: team, personal, shared
  • Orphans and opens on every row
  • CSV export of the notebook table

03 — Search

The answer, the sources, the neighbours

The demo answer names what was asked for — multi-site inventory sync by Q4, two blockers, a follow-up owed — and the notes it came from. Below it, results are typed note, notebook or tag with relevance and opens.

  • Index size 428 across notes, notebooks, tags
  • Relevance scores on every result
  • Filter chips by type

04 — Tags

The folksonomy, audited

#1on1 has 70 notes in a single notebook; #shared-wide has 71 across twelve. The tag table turns “how do we use tags” into a sortable answer.

  • 60 tags in use
  • Notebooks spanned per tag
  • Orphan-tagged count at 43

Who runs it

Three roles keep the notes honest.

Roles, not references. We have no named customers yet, so nobody in these photographs is quoted, credited or claimed as one.

Field researcher

Captures visits and interviews as they happen. The customer-visit dump in the orphan queue is theirs to file while it still means something.

field notes · 150d cold peak

Hiring lead

Lives in the hiring-loop notes and the #1on1 tag — 70 notes in one notebook, owned and current.

#1on1 · 70 notes

Account team

Reads the partner cluster before the call: the call note, the handoff, the pricing scrap — one search, all three.

partner results · 27

The shape of it

What the demo workspace actually looks like.

Every figure below is legible in the captures above. Nothing here is a projection of your estate — it is the state of the demo data.

320notes, active + draft163 active · 46 pinned
203notes in the orphan queue75 at high risk, 55 or above
148orphan flags at notebook levelone notebook carries 14
60tags in use#meeting heaviest at 86 notes
Highest orphan risk, days coldrisk score · days untouched — from the hygiene queue
  • “Random sticky, parking lot” — 172 days99
  • Untitled note — 150 days99
  • Dump: customer visit — 150 days99
  • Dump: SSO setup — 152 days90
  • Field: hiring loop — 158 days85
Capture health80% of 320 notes filed in a notebook
  • Filed · 256 notes
  • Unfiled · 54 notes in inventory
Against the targetfiled 80% · target 92%
80%
  • Filed · 80%
  • Gap to target · 12 points

How it runs

A note's life, in the order it actually happens.

01

Capture

The note lands fast — a call, a visit, a sticky thought. Filing can wait; capture cannot.

02

File

Notes join a notebook and pick up tags. The filed share is 80% against a 92% target, and the gap is on the overview.

03

Share

Links go out with a role and, increasingly, an expiry. The 71 high-sprawl items are the old way, queued for revocation.

04

Surface

Search answers from the corpus with sources, and the orphan queue keeps the unfiled visible until they are filed or archived.

One record

The note reads the record
the estate already keeps.

A note is raw material. It graduates into verified pages, tasks and conversations on the same record.

All 132 applications

Limits

What Notes does not do yet.

Finding this out on the third call is worse for you than reading it here, and worse for us.

Start

Open it before you talk to anyone.

Try

Open it right now

  • The live build
  • Demo data
  • No card, no call
Open live Notes

Pilot

Your notebooks, your corpus

  • Everything in Try
  • Notebook-import plan
  • Hygiene-baseline review
  • Estate map
Talk to sales

Estate

Notes with the rest of it

  • Notes with Docs, Chat and Tasks
  • One identity, one bill
  • CEDX delivery
Book an estate map

Questions

Before you pilot Notes.

Is the software on this page real?

Yes. Every screenshot is a capture of the running build and you can open the same build at /app/notes. It runs on demo data — the notes, notebooks and people belong to a demo workspace, not to a customer.

What is an orphan note?

A note with no notebook, weak tags and no links from related notes — the hygiene queue scores each one. The demo workspace has 203 in queue, 75 of them at high risk, the worst cold for 172 days. The fix is on the alert: file to a notebook, add tags, link from related notes.

What is share sprawl?

Shares that outlived their purpose — anyone-with-link URLs, external access nobody reviews. Seventy-one items sit at high sprawl in the demo view, and the alerts name the sensitive ones, like a pricing scrap still open on an anyone link.

How does the search answer work?

It reads the corpus and answers with sources. The demo question — what did the partner ask for on the last call — comes back with the ask, two blockers and a follow-up owed, citing the call note and the handoff note by id, plus a semantic cluster of related notes underneath.

What do the tag counts tell us?

Which tags carry weight and which carry orphans. #meeting leads at 86 notes across 12 notebooks; #needs-file exists precisely to hold the unfiled — 53 notes, five of them orphans. The folksonomy audits itself.

Is Notes audited or certified?

No certification has been issued. What we can evidence about hosting, encryption, tenant isolation and production access is written up on the security page.

The orphan queue is open. See what your parking lot costs.

Live build, demo data, no card. Then count the untitled notes in your own app.