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Become a Writer. Finish Your Novel.

Learn the craft, write your story, polish your manuscript, with coaching along the way.

Free forever tier. The full course included. No card to start.
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Everything you need, in one place.

Structure your plot, characters and world, collaborate with others, write your manuscript - all in one easy application.

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The course

A course that writes your book with you.

Ten guided steps take you from a vague spark to a finished draft. Every lesson writes straight back into your real story cards, so when you finish the course, you've finished real chapters, not exercises. Earn XP, level up eight craft skills, and always know the next move. The full course is free, no card.

01

Motivation

Find the themes you care about and the reader you're writing for, so your why outlasts the first burst of inspiration.

02

Conflict

Pin down the central struggle, inside and out, that keeps readers turning pages.

03

Premise

Lock your whole story into one sharp paragraph: your north star for everything that follows.

04

Setting

Choose a time, place, and atmosphere that carry your themes and shape your characters' choices.

05

Characters

Build a protagonist with a want, a need, a lie, and a ghost, plus the cast around them.

06

Plot Structure

Turn your premise into a story skeleton, from inciting incident to climax.

07

Worldbuilding

Build only the world your story needs: cultures, rules, and systems that matter.

08

Scenes

Break your structure into scenes with purpose and tension, and keep the pacing tight.

09

Drafting

Turn your outline into a finished first draft, with habits that keep you going.

10

Revision

Turn a messy draft into a real book, then get it in front of your first readers.

Meet Note

A coach for your story, not a ghostwriter.

Note will never write for you. It will only explain novelwriting and storytelling techniques or ask you pointed questions to trigger your creativity.

You actually learn

A tool that writes the prose leaves you exactly as good a writer as yesterday. Note makes you better, and that skill is yours to keep.

It's genuinely yours

No quiet doubt of "is this even my book?" Every word is yours. When you type THE END, you get to mean it.

You stay in control

Note is a sparring partner. It hunts for plot holes and asks the question you were avoiding, then pulls your best ideas into the open.

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Your Sparring Partner

Note doesn't just listen. It pushes back, challenges your assumptions, and hunts for the depth in your worldbuilding.

Character Depth
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Plot Mechanics
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World Logic
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Conflict Focus
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Emotional Stakes
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Theme Integrity
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One story. Every angle.

The same cards become a dashboard, a relationship graph, a custom-calendar timeline, a hand-drawn map, and a whiteboard canvas. See your world the way your brain needs to.

Dashboard

Progress, word counts, and goals at a glance.

Relationship graph

See how every character and card connects.

Timeline

Events on a custom calendar you design for your world.

Map

Hand-drawn regions, markers, and layers.

Canvas

A whiteboard to pin, sketch, and connect ideas.

Built to get you through the messy middle.

Momentum, not motivation. The system keeps you moving when willpower runs out.

Streaks & heatmap

A GitHub-style heatmap makes consistency visible. Don't break the chain.

Goals

Daily and weekly word targets turn vague intention into a session that starts.

Pomodoro

Focused sprints get you past the blank page and into the work.

Analytics

Track your words, time, and growth so progress always feels real.

What Writers Are Saying

Early writers are already using Note to get unstuck and keep going.

"Note analyzed my story and gave me a valuable insight… it studied the characters, then asked me to deepen their actions, to show specific traits or how the trauma they have gone through in the past reflects on them in the present. This is the first time in years that I have ever revisited my 'writer' era, that I reopened my drafts."
Aalaa
"With Note's help, I can really dig into the plot holes and stuff I feel unsure about."
Alexandra Stancu
"It feels like having a second pair of eyes on my writing without breaking my flow."
Gloria
"It delved deep into my novel, asking deep questions and probing me at places I forgot or didn't pay attention to."
Khaled H
"It's like talking to another person."
Coen Fullmer
"It is very easy to understand and has many amazing features to help with the overall writing experience."
Kristel
"Me and my cousin are both trying this out and we love it! It is super helpful in guiding me in the right direction and making me feel like real progress is being made. I am super grateful for this website and hope to keep using it as I continue to work on my story!"
Clara
"It's a powerful tool that helps you stay organized while using AI to guide you and deepen your understanding of your story."
Pablo Alvarez
"Helps with analyzing your story and bringing up things to consider and check. Its ability to create note cards for you makes organizing easy."
Daniel Maples
"Note analyzed my story and gave me a valuable insight… it studied the characters, then asked me to deepen their actions, to show specific traits or how the trauma they have gone through in the past reflects on them in the present. This is the first time in years that I have ever revisited my 'writer' era, that I reopened my drafts."
Aalaa
"With Note's help, I can really dig into the plot holes and stuff I feel unsure about."
Alexandra Stancu
"It feels like having a second pair of eyes on my writing without breaking my flow."
Gloria
"It delved deep into my novel, asking deep questions and probing me at places I forgot or didn't pay attention to."
Khaled H
"It's like talking to another person."
Coen Fullmer
"It is very easy to understand and has many amazing features to help with the overall writing experience."
Kristel
"Me and my cousin are both trying this out and we love it! It is super helpful in guiding me in the right direction and making me feel like real progress is being made. I am super grateful for this website and hope to keep using it as I continue to work on my story!"
Clara
"It's a powerful tool that helps you stay organized while using AI to guide you and deepen your understanding of your story."
Pablo Alvarez
"Helps with analyzing your story and bringing up things to consider and check. Its ability to create note cards for you makes organizing easy."
Daniel Maples
"Note analyzed my story and gave me a valuable insight… it studied the characters, then asked me to deepen their actions, to show specific traits or how the trauma they have gone through in the past reflects on them in the present. This is the first time in years that I have ever revisited my 'writer' era, that I reopened my drafts."
Aalaa
"With Note's help, I can really dig into the plot holes and stuff I feel unsure about."
Alexandra Stancu
"It feels like having a second pair of eyes on my writing without breaking my flow."
Gloria
"It delved deep into my novel, asking deep questions and probing me at places I forgot or didn't pay attention to."
Khaled H
"It's like talking to another person."
Coen Fullmer
"It is very easy to understand and has many amazing features to help with the overall writing experience."
Kristel
"Me and my cousin are both trying this out and we love it! It is super helpful in guiding me in the right direction and making me feel like real progress is being made. I am super grateful for this website and hope to keep using it as I continue to work on my story!"
Clara
"It's a powerful tool that helps you stay organized while using AI to guide you and deepen your understanding of your story."
Pablo Alvarez
"Helps with analyzing your story and bringing up things to consider and check. Its ability to create note cards for you makes organizing easy."
Daniel Maples

Free to start. Yours to keep.

Free to start

The full course and your workspace are free. No credit card to begin.

No surprise charges

Paid plans start with a free trial, cancel anytime, and we remind you before any charge.

The work stays yours

Note never generates prose, plot, or characters. When you type THE END, you mean it.

Books for everyone

We pledge 15% of revenue to children's-literacy nonprofits like Room to Read and ProLiteracy.

Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.

The course and your workspace are free, no card needed. Add Note's coaching when you want a sparring partner. Cancel anytime, and we'll remind you before any charge.

Starter

$5/month

Everything you need to start writing

  • Unlimited stories, cards & chapters
  • Unlimited maps, timelines & worldbuilding
  • Unlimited custom templates
  • Full writing course
  • Version history
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Manuscript import & export
  • Note Coaching
  • Standard Note writing coach
  • 50 coaching messages / month
Try free for 7 days
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Writer

$8/month

Deeper coaching to keep your momentum

  • Unlimited stories, cards & chapters
  • Unlimited maps, timelines & worldbuilding
  • Unlimited custom templates
  • Full writing course
  • Version history
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Manuscript import & export
  • Note Coaching
  • Most capable Note Coach
  • 100 coaching messages / month
Try free for 7 days

Novelist

$16/month

Maximum coaching to finish your book

  • Unlimited stories, cards & chapters
  • Unlimited maps, timelines & worldbuilding
  • Unlimited custom templates
  • Full writing course
  • Version history
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Manuscript import & export
  • Note coaching
  • Most capable Note Coach
  • 350 coaching messages / month
Try free for 14 days
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