Your notes, and the party's
Two boxes, and it matters which one you're in.
Your private notes are yours alone — the GM cannot read them. Party Notes are the shared board everyone reads, with your name on what you write.
Private notes
Every character, Backdrop, Prop and Ensemble you can see has Your Private Notes on it. Write whatever you want.
How private is private?
Completely. There's no setting for it, because there's nothing for a setting to switch off — the app only ever asks for your notes. No GM view, no admin override, no export that includes them.
A promise kept by a screen is a promise the next new screen can forget. This one is kept by the question itself.
Your notes also travel with you: leave a campaign and they leave with you, because they were never anyone else's to keep.
What they're for
Suspicions, mostly. “Lied about where he was on the night”. “Same accent as the smuggler”. “I don't trust this and I can't say why.”
Also the honest boring ones: what you were about to do before the session ended, who owes you money, the name you keep forgetting.
Party Notes
The shared board. Anyone in the campaign posts, everyone reads, every note carries its author's name, and useful ones get voted to the top.
There's a campaign-wide board, and a section on each person, place and thing for notes about that one thing.
Attached notes follow the thing they're on
A note stuck to a Backdrop lives on that Backdrop's page. If the GM stops sharing it, those notes go quiet with it — there's no second visibility setting to keep in step, which is the whole reason they live there instead of on the main board.
The campaign-wide board is for what doesn't belong to any one thing: the plan, the shopping list, the running joke, who's bringing food.
Voting
One up-vote per person per note, and there's no down-vote — not as an oversight, but because a shared board where people can bury each other's contributions stops being a shared board rather quickly.
Votes float the useful ones up. Everything else stays newest-first underneath.
Why can't I edit a party note?
You can't. Delete it and post it again — that's the only way to change one.
That's on purpose
If notes could be edited, someone could rewrite what they said after the fact, and a shared record you can quietly revise isn't much of a record. Delete-and-repost is loud: the note goes away and a new one turns up with a new timestamp.
It also means there's no conflict to resolve when two people are typing at once, which on a shared board at a live table happens more than you'd think.
Who can delete what
Your own notes, always. The GM can delete any of them.
The GM's role here is delete, never approve — there's no queue and nothing waiting for a nod. An approval step would put the busiest person at the table in the way of everyone else's note-taking, which is the opposite of what a shared board is for.
Moving something from private to shared
A private note gets a Copy to party notes button. It copies — your original stays private.
Copy, not move
Deliberately. Sharing a suspicion shouldn't cost you your own record of having had it, and the two go on to have separate lives: you can delete the party copy and keep yours, or the other way round.
This is help for ACT VI: The Tabletop Turns — a system-agnostic companion app for running tabletop RPGs. Players never pay, and a GM's first campaign is free.