Every context switch costs your entire mental stack — the subject you were in, the half-decided question, the line of thinking you were holding. Building it back from scratch takes 10–15 minutes you didn't have.
Open a pad after hours away and the resume panel surfaces the subject you were in, the last thought, the decisions still open, the questions waiting, and the items you parked. Your stack rebuilds itself.
Every Nodepad feature must pass one filter: "Does this help the user answer 'Where was I?'" If no, we defer it.
When you switch back to a project, Nodepad surfaces a small panel above the workspace: the subject you were in, the time since you left, the open decisions, the open questions, the parked items. One click and you're back inside that subject — not at the board root.
DECISION: at the start of a sticky and the footer pill auto-labels. BLOCKER: IDEA: QUESTION: PARKED: OUTCOME: — no dropdowns.
nodepad ai --contextOpen the markdown panel and write in the format you already know. Headings become sections, bullets become stickies, nested bullets become children. Preview the staged diff, commit. Thirty lines become thirty nodes — no dragging.
Click into any node and it opens as its own pad — with its own children, its own notes, its own context state. No artificial depth limit: drill as deep as the problem needs, and the resume panel tracks where you left off at every level.
A client retainer can contain Executive, Engineering, Architecture, People management, and Vendor evaluation as separate subjects. Nodepad remembers their state independently. Resume returns you to the last subject, not the project root.
Nodepad MCP is available now at https://nodepad.tools/mcp. OAuth connects 8 live tools for workspace context, capture, nodes, runbooks, history, bindings, and subjects.
/api/v1/nodepads/:short_id/context.json serves the same per-pad context digest.
Available now:
np bind <pad>/<subject>
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np resume
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np capture decision.
Bind, resume, capture, and structured context are available from the Nodepad command line.
Each homepage claim carries a status. Nodepad Pro checkout is rolling out on production — pricing is marked Shipping until checkout is fully live everywhere.
Open a pad after hours away and Nodepad surfaces the subject you were in, the last thought, open decisions, questions, and parked items that were active when you left.
Shipped in the workspace resume panel and subject switcher.
Paste an outline or ask AI for a markdown plan, then stage the diff before it becomes a node tree. It stays inspectable before it changes your pad.
Markdown sticky rendering and staged apply are in production code.
Pads are not flat canvases. Every node can open into its own working surface, with children, context, attachments, and handoff paths.
Nested node workspaces, pad switching, and sharing grants are live.
Architecture, vendor pricing, people management, and execution are each a subject with its own state inside one pad. Switch subjects without rebuilding your mental stack.
Subject switching and context-state persistence are wired in the workspace.
Connect an agent over OAuth, then read the active pad's subject, last thought, open decisions, questions, parked items, and recent captures.
8 live tools at https://nodepad.tools/mcp; the same digest is available at /api/v1/nodepads/:short_id/context.json.
Bind a workspace, resume state, capture decisions, read structured summaries, and ask context-grounded AI from your shell.
Install the published Nodepad distribution from nodepad.tools/install.sh or use the Homebrew alternative.
Every node is a workspace. Click into any of them — it opens as its own pad with its own children, its own notes, its own context state.
Bind a workspace, resume where you left off, capture decisions, and ask AI with your active pad already in context.
np resumenodepad ai --contextNodepad is shaped for people who run multiple streams of work and switch mental modes throughout the day — the operator-of-one.
Wears 6+ hats per day — exec, eng, product, sales, support, family — and loses ~10 minutes rebuilding mental state on every switch.
Multiple side projects, research threads, and a day job. Half-finished thoughts vanish between sessions.
Switches between strategic, architectural, code-review, mentoring, and vendor-evaluation modes throughout the day.
Three retainers, a day job, a startup. Every Monday morning is rebuild-the-mental-map mode.
Agents need structured context to continue from. Free-form notes are unreadable.
Nodepad is in a category of one. It's easier to define by what it isn't.
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