What Internote is

An internote is an interactive document — narrative text alongside graphs, worked examples and explanations a reader can step through. It is the unit everything else is built from, and it is what you will spend most of your time writing.

A map collects internotes into a structure: a series, a course, a reading order, or a picture of how a topic fits together. A map holds internotes rather than containing them, so an internote can sit in several maps and still be its own page.

A site is a shared space for a team, a school, a publication or a project. It has its own address, its own members, and content published under its name rather than any one person’s.

Four destinations, and a clean division between them.

• Home is where you land. It is a starting point rather than a collection.
• Explore is everything published across Internote by everyone. This is where you find things you did not write.
• Library is your own reading: what you have bookmarked, what has been shared with you, and what you have finished.
• Studio is your own writing: every internote and map you have made, drafts included.

The line between the last two is worth holding on to. Library is what you read; Studio is what you wrote. Anything you make starts in Studio and, once published, becomes findable in other people’s Explore.

A new internote is a draft that only you can see, and it stays that way until you press Publish. That is a separate decision from visibility: a published internote set to private is still limited to you and the people you share it with.

Maps work differently — they have no Publish step at all, and visibility alone decides who can see one. Making a map covers why.

Internotes are written in Chalk, a language built for documents with working parts in them. You do not need to learn it to start: a new internote opens in Visual mode, where you edit blocks directly on the rendered page and add elements from a palette, with no syntax involved. Source mode is the Chalk underneath, and you can move between the two at any point.

Nothing, during the private beta. There is no plan to choose, no card to add and nothing to cancel. If paid plans arrive for your account, Internote will say so before anything changes.