Where the term comes from In this channel's material, Take Notes is a custom skill Ryan Nystrom built for his Notion AI coding agents. Its job is to turn the agent's working session into a living working journal: as the agent builds, it writes down the problems it encounters along the way. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426] How it fits the workflow - Notion as source of truth. Specs, requirements, and the agent's own notes all live in Notion, so nothing important is scattered across local repos or chat threads. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426] - Running in the cloud. Because the whole workflow runs in Notion, Ryan sends a handoff message, closes the tab, and goes to a meeting — the notes capture what happened while he was away. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426] - Part of the handoff. In his actual handoff prompt, the agent fulfills the assignment, runs a swarm review of all generated code, creates a PR, and monitors continuous integration — with Take Notes recording problems encountered while building so the human can understand the session later without watching it. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426] Why it matters The non-obvious win Ryan calls out is eliminating context-management overhead: no wondering whether the local repo is updated or whether the agent is connected to the right environment. A skill like Take Notes is one of the pieces that makes delegation-first agent work tractable — the human plans and verifies, and the record of the work is written down automatically. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426]