Notes

Today we're launching a major set of upgrades to note-taking & highlighting on Matter.

Collectively, these changes make it easier to add context to what you save, synthesize what you read, and transfer learnings to your preferred knowledge base.

Let's dive in...

First, you can now take a note at the article-level.

The article-level note serves two main purposes:

1. You can take a note when you save something to remind yourself why you want to read it.*
2. You can take a note after you've read something to crystallize it and create a future reference.

Second, the full suite of note-taking functionality is now available on web!

This is a biggie. Not only can you take article-level notes, you can take notes on highlights as you read:

Third, we've made it easier to get notes out of Matter.

Matter isn't a fully-featured note-taking tool (and doesn't aspire to be). Its job is to help you take notes while you read and to smoothly transfer those notes to your primary notes app.

As before, you can sync your highlights & notes directly to Notion, Roam, Obsidian, or Readwise on an ongoing basis. Now, you can also export highlights & notes from individual articles on a 1-off basis.

You can also apply TFT syntax more easily with our redesigned text editor:

Finally, we’ve added some little touches to make highlights even better.

• Taking a highlight is even faster: double-tap to highlight any sentence.
• Taking a note is faster too: double-tap a highlight to take a note.
• Highlight location metadata has been added to help orient you.
• All drafts are saved by default. No more accidentally lost notes.

Tip: Double-tap to highlight works nicely with audio, letting you highlight without breaking flow:

• Taking a note when you save will be available next week, with the release of our new mobile save extension.