Write in the margins: comments come to your notes
Open a book annotated by a good reader: the margins overflow. Reactions, objections, cross-references — a whole layer of thinking that accompanies the text without ever blending into it. That is exactly what Keepsake gives you today: margins for your notes.
Material, not text
A note in progress attracts all sorts of things that don't belong inside it: the email excerpt you'll use to rewrite a paragraph tomorrow, the reference to double-check, the idea that isn't ripe yet. Until now you had to choose: write them into the text — and risk publishing your scratch thoughts — or lose them.
Comments settle this. Select a passage, click the bubble, drop your material: it lives alongside the text, anchored to the right spot. Rewrite the note as much as you like — the comment follows. And if the passage disappears entirely, nothing is lost: the comment keeps its original excerpt and moves to the note level.
Above all, a comment is never published: your Keepsake Page, your WordPress posts and your newsletters only ever show the text. The margin stays yours.
Made to disappear
A margin note is not an archive. You reread, copy what matters, delete the rest — and whatever deserves to last becomes a note or a linked task. No "resolved" state, no guilt counter: comments are scaffolding, and scaffolding comes down when the wall stands.
A margin you read at a glance
The note outline has been redesigned to carry this margin: one quiet vertical thread, dashes for your headings, beads for your comments — each at the level of its section. Hover the thread: labels reveal themselves in a wave under your cursor. Click: you land on the passage, highlighted, with the comment open beside it. Prefer to see everything at once? Pin the full panel open with one click.
Two inks
If an AI assistant works on your notes — through the API or the MCP server, which gains four dedicated tools — it can read your margin and leave its own remarks. Its comments appear in blue, yours in red. Your text stays untouched; the margin becomes the space where you think together: "review my draft and leave your remarks in the margin" becomes a real workflow — and you keep the pen.
And for your finished projects
This update also brings page archiving: a project that wraps up leaves your lists and suggestions but keeps everything — description, contacts, tasks, notes — and stays findable through search. Reversible in one click. See how it works.
Comments are available now for all accounts. To get started: the Help Center article.