Starting Note is a tool for beginning your day intentionally — with the people, ideas, and practices that matter most.
Starting Note is meant to help you start well. It's a daily feed you build and control — surfacing what you want to keep close, when you want to see it.
Create Spaces
Spaces are the containers that give Starting Note structure. Make one for Birthdays, one for Books, one for Work rituals, one for things that inspire you. Everything lives somewhere intentional.
Add What Matters
Inside each Space, add entries — the things you want to track and return to. A birthday. A weekly check-in. A quote that stopped you mid-page. An essay you want to sit with again. A habit you're building.
Mark Occasions
Some things happen once a year and deserve to be acknowledged — anniversaries, holidays, personal milestones. Starting Note surfaces them in advance so you're never caught off guard.
Set Reminders
For recurring commitments — daily intentions, weekly reviews, monthly check-ins — set a rhythm and let Starting Note hold it. It shows up on your feed when the time comes.
Build a Collection
Quotes, essays, poems, passages — things worth returning to. Add them to a Space and set a surfacing schedule. Starting Note picks from the collection and surfaces them in your daily feed, one at a time.
Take Action
Each day, your feed shows what's due — lead-up reminders, plan steps, resurfaced reading. Mark things done, skip what doesn't fit, let the rest carry forward. The loop closes and begins again.
The name Starting Note comes from the idea of a note that sets the tone — a small prompt that orients your day toward what matters. Like the first note of a piece of music, it's not the whole story, but it gets you started.