Notes

What does a note stick to?

A position, not a move number. Write one with N on the game screen and it comes back in every game of yours that reaches that position, whatever the move order was. A note can carry tags, and a note written while walking a model game or a reference line is still yours and is kept.

Or to a game entire, with no position at all: the game row at the top of the game screen's Notes tab (⇧N), or This game in a correspondence game. Those come back under that one game only — see Analysing a game.

Wherever a note is written — the game screen, the explorer, the live board, a correspondence game, the notes page — Enter saves it and Shift+Enter starts a new line. A box that saves when you click away still does.

Where do they show up?

Under the board of any game that reaches the position, in Your notes on this position in the explorer, and on the live board. The move column marks a move whose position has been written about, so a game you have thought about before says so; point at a marked move to read the note. A move without a note shows no tooltip.

The notes page

Notes collects everything you and your assistant have written, newest first, under a line for each stretch of time (Earlier this month, August 2026).

The row over the list starts with the view switch. Stream shows every note in full, two to a row; Sheet a grid of positions with the text clamped; List one line per note with where it came from: the move, the opponent and their rating, the result and, in a window 1440 pixels wide or more, when the game was played and the tags. The page remembers the view you picked.

After it come the filters, each a button that opens a small panel: Tags, About (what the note is pinned to), Opponent and Result of the game it was written on, Game, Written (when) and Written by (you in the app, your assistant over MCP, or the live board). A filter that is set turns blue and reads Tags: endgame; its × clears it, and Clear clears them all. The Filter notes… box at the end of the row searches the words of the notes themselves.

On a note, the small grey words at the top (game, loose, via MCP, 28d ago) only say what it is. The tags under the text (#endgame) are buttons: click one to see only notes with that tag. The pencil rewrites the note and the bin deletes it, after asking. At the foot, Written on … opens the game at that move, and In 3 games of yours opens the position in the explorer. In the list, click a line to open the whole note in place, and click an opponent's name to see only notes on games against them.

Export notes

Export at the top right exports everything the current filters show. Pick Markdown for a file to read, or PGN for a file a chess program opens, in which notes are comments and saved lines are variations. The button is greyed out while no note matches.