Getting started
Write a note, connect an agent, and see how its edits reach your notes only through you or a grant you made.
Your first note
Open Fastpad and start typing. The first note exists before you have an account: it lives in a CRDT in your browser and is adopted into a workspace when you sign up. Nothing is lost in between, and nothing about that first note is a demo.
Every block — every paragraph, heading, list item, code fence — is given a stable identifier the moment it is created. That identifier is what lets a comment, a citation or a link point at the middle of a note and still be pointing at the right thing after the note is rewritten around it.
- Press
/for the block menu: headings, lists, tables, code, callouts, toggles, columns. - Press
Cmd/Ctrl-Kfor the command palette. - Type
[[or@to mention another note. The link is a real edge, not a string. - Press
Cmd/Ctrl-Zas usual. Undo is local and never fights a sync.
Organizing without deciding first
There is no database to create before you can write. Notes are notes. When a set of them turns out to be the same kind of thing, apply a type — #Person, #Meeting, #Project — and that type brings its properties with it.
Typing is optional, retroactive, and multiple: a note can carry several types at once, and untyped notes are completely first-class. Once notes share a type you can save a view over them — table, board, calendar, gallery, list or timeline — and embed that view inside any other note. See Concepts.
Connect an agent
Fastpad speaks the Model Context Protocol. Point any MCP client at the endpoint below and it can search, read, traverse links and propose edits.
https://mcp.fastpad.aiMint a token in Settings → Agents & tokens (also linked from the Agent activity page), where you choose its scopes and autonomy and can revoke it later, or run fp login in a terminal. An unauthenticated request answers 401 with a challenge telling the client exactly where to authenticate.
Your notes are files you can read
Everything serializes to CommonMark with YAML frontmatter and a {#blockId} anchor after each block. That is one canonical format, used by the export, the API, the agent tools and the on-disk mirror — there is no second, lossier one.
fp pull ./my-notes # the whole workspace, as Markdown
fp push ./my-notes # send your local edits backBecause each block carries its anchor, fp push reads which paragraph is which block rather than guessing. See Markdown and the CLI.