Notes on building notes for AI.
Long-form, technical, opinionated. Memory, MCP, the editor, the EU, the trade-offs we made and the ones we still haven't made our mind up about.
Four ways to read the same note
Reading and writing aren't the same job. Vist now ships four view modes — Normal, Full-page, Presenter, Focus — plus per-note width and Mermaid diagrams. Here's why each one exists and how the editor lifecycle hands them off.
Tasks, on time. Politely.
Push notifications are easy. Picking the right moment to push is hard. How Vist ships daily digests, per-task reminders, and real-time push without becoming the loudest tab in your day.
Read-only is a feature, not a limitation
How Vist's Google Calendar integration works — the least-privilege OAuth scope, the 15-minute cache, and why we deliberately don't write to your calendar.
MCP, the 60-second version
What MCP is, how Vist exposes it, and the 30-second connection flow that replaced the old stdio-bridge dance. Plus: why we run an OAuth provider for it.
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