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title: '**Take Notes**'
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  **Take Notes** is a custom skill in this channel's material that turns a
  coding agent's working session into a _living working journal_: as the agent
  builds, it writes down the problems it encounters, keeping Notion as the
  source of truth for all context. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426]
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# \*\*Take Notes\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/take-notes-edaf71118724

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Take Notes** is a custom skill in this channel's material that turns a coding agent's working session into a _living working journal_: as the agent builds, it writes down the problems it encounters, keeping Notion as the source of truth for all context. [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@426]

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]- **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]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]