changelog

Add notes to (almost) everything

September 8, 2025

Hey folks! Ever wished you could jot down quick thoughts about your subscribers, tags, or RSS feeds without reaching for a separate app? ...No? ...Okay, well — I do, and maybe you will at some point want to do it too.

We've just made notes more accessible across Buttondown. You can now add notes directly from subscriber profiles, tag pages, and RSS feed pages — perfect for tracking the squishy qualitative details like "reached out about sponsorship opportunity" or "interested in the advanced email course., just by opening the search modal (which I suppose we should now start calling the "command palette", since it lets you do all sorts of things in a single place).

Notes help you keep context right where you need it. Maybe you want to remember why a particular subscriber upgraded to paid, or track why a given RSS feed wasn't responding, or which one-off thing you had to spin up a tag for. Now all of that information lives exactly where you'd expect to find it, without the mental overhead of maintaining a separate system.

The best part? It's all searchable: just pop open the search modal and start typing. No more wondering where you wrote down that important detail about an interesting reply from a subscriber.

The second best part? It's all accessible in the API, too.

If there's something in Buttondown that you'd like to have a note about and you can't (yet!), let us know and we'll see what we can do.

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