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Orbit Notes

Orbit Notes is Quazzar’s note-taking and memory surface. It opens from the Orbit category in the app dock. Notes are Markdown files with wiki-link relationships, tags, and folders; they are also the on-disk home for every memory an AI client writes through the Memory MCP.

Single-user editing, tagging, wiki-linking, and the Memory MCP surface are free on Community. The mind-map graph view and the filter toolbar are gated behind Orbit Pro. See Orbit Pro.

Editor

The Notes editor is a Markdown editor optimised for small-to-medium notes. Features:

  • Live Markdown rendering — # headings, **bold**, - lists, and fenced code blocks render in place.
  • Inline #tag parsing — tags are hoisted into the metadata panel and the sidebar tag list on every save.
  • [[Wiki-link]] parsing — the link is made live; clicking it opens the target note, or creates it if it does not exist.
  • Folder organisation in the left sidebar; drag-and-drop to move notes between folders.

Wrap a note title in double brackets to link notes together:

See also [[Incident runbook]] and [[On-call rotation]].

The link is clickable and bidirectional — the target note’s metadata panel lists the back-reference. Broken links (targets that do not exist yet) render in a muted colour; clicking creates the target note seeded with the bracket text.

Tags

Prefix any word with # inside a note body to tag it:

Deploy in the morning. #deploy #runbook

Tags aggregate in the sidebar with counts. Click a tag to filter the note list down to matching notes.

System tags are written by the Memory MCP server on writes from external AI clients: #mcp, #memory, #<client> (kebab-case), #ns/<namespace>. These make AI-written memories visible at a glance.

Mind-map graph view (Orbit Pro)

Click Mind Map (the prominent toggle above the note list) to switch from list view to an interactive force-layout graph. Notes are nodes; wiki-links are edges. Colour and shape encode provenance:

SourceShapeColourBadgeMeaning
usercirclecyan—You authored this note
mcphexagonamberAIRemembered by an external AI client (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, …)
mollyrounded squarevioletMRemembered by Molly, the bundled assistant

Node radius scales with importance: r = 6 + importance * 6 pixels. Search filters dim unmatched nodes to 25% opacity so the layout stays stable while you type.

Filter toolbar

Above the canvas:

  • Source chips — toggle User / MCP / Molly independently.
  • Namespace — multi-select over distinct mcp_namespace values in view.
  • Client — multi-select over mcp_client_name (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.).
  • Tag — multi-select over every tag in the notes’ bodies.
  • Min importance — 0..1 slider; nodes below the threshold are omitted server-side.
  • Hide orphans — client-side post-filter that drops nodes with no edges.
  • Archived — off by default; on returns notes carrying #archived (mirrors soft-delete semantics).

The mind-map graph and its filter toolbar are an Orbit Pro feature. The Community plan still shows notes in a list, filtered by tag and folder.

Metadata panel

Click any note (in list or graph view) to open the metadata panel. It shows:

  • Title, namespace, client, source
  • Importance slider (0..1)
  • Full tag list as clickable chips
  • Incoming and outgoing wiki-links as clickable chips
  • Archive and Delete actions

The panel edits are persisted via PATCH /api/notes/{id}/meta.

Connect AI modal

The Connect AI button in the Notes header opens a modal with one-click configuration snippets for:

  • Claude Desktop
  • Claude Code (CLI)
  • ChatGPT / OpenAI MCP
  • Cursor
  • VS Code / Copilot
  • A raw curl probe

Each tab includes the node’s /mcp URL and the file path where the snippet should land. Paste, replace <KEY> with the bearer from Settings -> MCP & Memory, and restart the client.

Memory MCP integration

Orbit Notes is the same table external AI clients write to through the Memory MCP. Anything the AI remembers shows up as a note; anything the user writes is retrievable by the AI on the next conversation.

  • Source filter (user / mcp / molly) lets you partition manually-authored notes from AI memories.
  • Importance (0..1) sets how prominently a memory surfaces in hybrid search.
  • Last referenced is bumped whenever the AI calls memory_get on the note, so the Recent sort matches what the AI has been reading lately.

See the Memory MCP page for the full tool and resource surface.

Molly slash commands

Molly, the bundled assistant, reads and writes the same notes table under the molly namespace. Two slash commands are intercepted before the LLM sees them:

  • /remember <text> — persists <text> as a Molly memory. The first line becomes the title; the full text becomes the body.
  • /recall <query> — displays up to 5 hybrid-ranked hits inline. Clicking a hit copies its title into the input so you can reference it in a follow-up.

Details in Molly Memory.

Export

File -> Export notes produces a .zip of every note as Markdown, preserving folder structure. Tags and wiki-links are kept intact inside the Markdown.

Troubleshooting

Mind Map button is greyed out

You are on the Community plan. Orbit Pro unlocks the graph view. Upgrade from Settings -> Billing.

Rename the typo note, then click Merge into on its metadata panel to replace every incoming link with the new target.

AI memories do not appear in the note list

Check the Source filter in the sidebar — it defaults to “All”. If you set it to “User” earlier it stays filtered. Switch back to “All” or explicitly enable the mcp / molly chips.

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