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[H1] Reflect Blog
[H2] Learn how to think better by taking notes. Improve your note-taking with AI, learn new workflows, and see how notable founders and builders setup their work environments.
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?️ Product Updates•Apr 28, 2026
[H3] Reflect Update:  Edit your notes with coding agents
We've expanded MCP functionality to let you edit your notes through these coding agents as well. This new functionality unlocks a ton of new workflows if you use coding agents.
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?️ Product Updates•Mar 10, 2026
[H3] Reflect Update:  MCP support for coding agents
Reflect notes now has an MCP server to access and search your notes directly from within Claude and Codex.
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?️ Product Updates•Sep 23, 2025
[H3] Reflect Update: AI summaries for saved links
We've shipped a few updates to Reflect, our AI powered note-taking app.
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?️ Product Updates•Aug 19, 2025
[H3] Reflect Update: Advanced Search on Mobile
Last year, we added Advanced Search to our desktop app, making it easier and faster to find exactly what you’re looking for. Now, that same powerful filtering is available on mobile.
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?️ Product Updates•Jul 8, 2025
[H3] Reflect Update: Custom prompt editor and more
Inside your preferences, we've added a new tab for Prompt Templates. From here you can create, copy, edit and delete any of your custom AI prompt templates.
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? Articles•Apr 28, 2025
[H3] The Fallacy of Collaborative Note-Taking
Sharing our notes might seem innocuous, but it comes at a steep price.

[H2] ? AI link summaries
A popular Reflect feature is the ability to save website links to your notes with a single click. And now, those saved links just got smarter and easier to find.
When you save a link, whether through the Chrome extension or from your phone, Reflect will automatically generate a short AI summary of the page.
Here’s how it works:
Save a link from your browser or phone.
Reflect creates a summary that captures what the page is about, appending it to your notes.
Find it faster later — summaries give Reflect’s semantic search engine more context so the right link shows up when you search for it.
? Tip: If you haven’t tried saving links yet, install our Chrome extension or use the Share feature on mobile.
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[H2] Advanced Search on Mobile
Last year we launched Advanced Search on desktop, which added the ability to filter your notes. This makes it a lot easier and faster to find what you're looking for.
Today, we are bringing that filtering functionality to our iOS app.
[H1] ?️ Advanced Search on Mobile
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When you search your notes from the “All” tab of the iPhone app, you’ll see there are now filters to toggle on top.
Filter by:
Pinned notes
Published notes
Tags
Linked To/By
Created at
Updated at
Daily Notes
We've also got some additional mobile improvements coming, as well as some bugs to squash!
[H2] Custom prompt editor and more
[H1] Editor for custom AI prompts
Inside your preferences, we've added a new tab for Prompt Templates. From here you can create, copy, edit and delete any of your custom AI prompt templates.
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[H1] Shortcut to copy URL
Copy the link to any note you are on by using the keyboard shortcut ⌥ ⌘ (option + cmd + L).
[H1] Other updates
We now support OCRing images contained inside the PDFs, meaning they will be added to the search index.
Support dragging more links onto Reflect, such as an email from Apple Mail.
Fix SQLite search when better trigram is unavailable (on mobile)
[H1] What's next?
Bringing advanced search to mobile.
Bringing AI chat to mobile.
[H2] Performance boost on iPad
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Last week we announced a major speed boost from rewriting the entire frontend codebase to be powered by SQLite. We’ve now brought the same improvement to our iPad app.
If you previously used Reflect’s iPad app, you’ll notice it’s now much faster and more responsive. It’s also now able to handle massive collections of notes without any issue.
If you own an iPad but haven’t tried it yet, you can download it here from TestFlight and take it for a spin! It shares a lot of the functionality our desktop apps have, like advanced search and the ability to chat with your notes using AI.
[H2] Massive speed bump, Sonnet 3.7, and PDF preview
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Over the past year, a lot of our time has gone into rewriting the entire frontend codebase to be powered by SQLite. We quietly launched this across iOS, web, and macOS desktop over the last two weeks.
In short you should see much faster load times, and we should handle massive note collections without issue (no more reloading issues on mobile!).
Also included in this release is:
Claude Sonnet 3.7 support for our AI assistant
An in-line PDF preview that lets you view PDFs within the macOS app
Persistent search results
Read the full update here.
[H2] In-line transcriber and Gemini for AI chat
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Reflect has added an in-line voice transcriber that lets you add voice transcriptions anywhere within your notes.
To use it on Mac, either press the Option key twice or Option + Space and start speaking. On Windows computers use the Alt key twice or Alt + Space. Make sure your cursor is where you want the text to go! The transcription will happen in real-time as you speak. When you’re done speaking, just use the same shortcut again.
We’ve started using Gemini to power our AI chat feature that lets you chat with your notes.
Gemini has a context limit of 2 million tokens vs. the 128k cap from OpenAI and Anthropic. This means it can take in a LOT more of your notes as context for the chat, which drastically improves the results.
[H2] Image and PDF OCR Text
Reflect now has OCR that extracts text from images and PDFs. We’ve also improved how image resizing and uploading works.
OCR (“Optical Character Recognition”) extracts text from images. In Reflect, this means that the text contained in images and PDFs now shows up in the search results.
For example, you can take a photo of a receipt and save it to your daily note. If you search for that charge later, it will show up.
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[H2] ? Encrypted assets, lock screen activity, deep-links and more
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Assets you save to Reflect are now end-to-end encrypted. That means any image or file you add to a note can only be decrypted and viewed by you.
We’ve also added a lock screen activity widget for our voice transcriber. When you record a voice note from Reflect’s iOS app, it now shows the recording activity from your lock screen. There’s also a convenient “Stop” button for when you’re finished.
Next we’ve added deep links, which allow you to open specific pages or notes within Reflect, directly from external applications. Jump straight to the exact note or page you need, saving time and reducing clicks.
Finally, we’ve added a few improvements to images. Images are now available to save and view while offline. Like the rest of your notes, they will sync once you go back online again.
On iOS you can now also zoom into images after clicking them to expand.
[H2] Tasks added to iPhone app
Today we’re happy to announce we are extending that to our iPhone app.
Our tasks manager is designed to be a simple aggregation of the tasks across your notes. You can create new tasks, check-off completed ones, and schedule tasks for the future.
Our goal isn't to build a fully fledged task manager (we recommend other great apps like Things for that), but we decided to add a basic aggregate view so tasks don’t get buried in your daily notes.
If you don't see the Tasks tab at the bottom, update the Reflect iPhone app.
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[H2] GPT-4o added to Reflect's AI features
We've added the new GPT-4o into Reflect.
This makes Reflect’s AI voice transcriber, AI assistant and the chat with your notes much faster. GPT-4o also allows for substantially larger context windows, so you can give the AI a lot more text to work with.
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[H2] International Keyboard Support
We’ve added support for international keyboards.
By default, Reflect will automatically detect what keyboard your system is set to. If you’re multilingual, it even works when you toggle between different keyboard languages.
The one exception is when you are using Reflect in Safari, so we’ve also added the ability to manually select the layout in your preferences.
?Tip: click on the question mark next to your profile name in the lower left corner of the app, then click “Keyboard shortcuts”. Here you’ll be able to see what the custom shortcuts are for your language.
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[H2] iOS App live in App Store
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Reflect’s iPhone app has been out of beta for quite a while, but has remained in TestFlight (Apple’s developer platform), until now.
The app is functionally the same as the TestFlight app, but we recommend uninstalling the old app and downloading the new one from the App Store. This is where future updates will be made.
You can download Reflect from the App Store here.
[H1] ?️ Other Updates and fixes:
Fixed backlink picker highlighting for note aliases
Improved case-sensitive alias matching
Fixed backlink matching for emojis
Updated models to use GPT-4-turbo
Do not auto-create tags from pastes
Re-enable macOS level audio recording (i.e. record zoom meetings)
Localized non-US keyboard shortcuts
[H2] New Backlink Picker
Improved the performance of pages with a lot of incoming backlinks
Enhance the backlink picker. It's now smarter about the sorting of items and shows bolded matched text.
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[H1] Other updates and improvements:
Ability to toggle between tasks and checklists on mobile
Added forward and back buttons on the desktop, web and iPad apps
Added support for custom protocols (e.g., things://)
Enabled history navigation buttons on iPad
Introduced task creation via API (use ‘+’)
Improved performance for pages with many incoming backlinks
Improved handling of remote images—images now re-upload automatically when dragged from a browser
Implemented scrollbars in dark mode
Enhanced meeting sorting across multiple calendars
Adjusted positioning of the pop-up account menu when resizing the sidebar
Fixed an aliasing issue causing duplicate entries
[H2] Tasks update and custom protocols
We have quietly shipped support for:
Creating tasks through the API (use +)
Oscillating between tasks and checklist items on mobile.
Support for custom protocols (e.g. things://)
[H2] Forward/back buttons + small UI fixes
Add forward/back buttons to desktop, web, and iPad UI
Show history nav buttons on iPad
Fix Scrollbars in darkmode
Fix meeting sort for multiple calendars
Keep the focus in the editor when the popover opens
Various small bug fixes
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[H2] Major bug fixes
Fixed an aliasing bug that was causing duplicates.
Fixed an editing bug on mobile that was causing the wrong note to be edited. (This one was quite a serious one, so a full post-mortem is being written up.)
Fix the positioning of the pop-up account menu when the sidebar is resized.
Ensure that audio files are saved locally before uploaded. This will dramatically reduce the risk of losing audio memos.
Fix an issue with remote images dragged from a browser. Previously Reflect would store the remote URL rather than re-upload the image. Now you can drag them from anywhere.
[H2] Tasks filtering and meeting fixes
You can now filter by Tasks by their breadcrumbs
Lots of fixes around adding meetings / attendees
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[H2] Update to the tasks beta and voice notes
Current will now show tasks from this daily note and all previous daily notes. Overdue will only be scheduled tasks that are overdue.
Update to audio recording: You can now cancel recordings with escape.
[H2] Improved iOS performance and action button support
We just shipped a new version of the iOS app that will improve the performance.
We've also added support for the new hardware button on the latest iPhones. So you can set that up as a shortcut to record audio memos.
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[H2] iPad offline fix and improved iOS performance
Shipped a new iPad app that should fix offline mode again (sorry!)
Shipped a new iOS app that improves performance.
[H2] Improved memory and Chrome extension fix
We just released mobile build 389 which improves memory usage. This should address the reloading issues few of you reported to some extent.
We've fixed the bug that stopped our Chrome extension from being able to bookmark PDFs.
[H2] Advanced Search and AI Chat
We've released three new features: advanced search, AI chat, and similar notes.
we've introduced a new advanced search, which lets you filter notes by daily dates, backlinks, pinned, and more.
On top of that, you can now ‘chat’ with your search results using GPT-4. This is convenient for quickly summarizing a collection of notes, or for example, reflecting on what you've written the last week.
Lastly, we've released similar notes. This uses client-side embedding to build up a semantic index of your notes. By every note, you'll see ‘similar notes’ that have semantically similar content.
All features are available today. You can read more on our blog post announcement.
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[H2] AI on mobile, iCal integration and offline status indicator
Starting today, you can access Reflect’s AI palette editor through our mobile iPhone app.
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To access the AI palette on the mobile app:
Select text within any note in Reflect
Tap on the ✨ icon in the menu
Select the prompt you’d like to run
Like on the desktop and browser apps, you can also clone and save your own custom prompts.
? Add iCal events to Reflect
We’ve also added the ability to add events from iCal intro Reflect.
To do this, connect your iCloud account from the “Connections” page under preferences. You’ll need to generate an app-specific password for Reflect at appleid.apple.com.
You can watch a video of how to do this here.
? Offline notice
Lastly we’ve added a notice to notes when they are offline, so you can see that some changes have been made, and are waiting to be synced.
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[H2] Add backlinks using AI
We’ve just released an update to Reflect that lets you select a paragraph of text and automatically add backlinks.
[H1] How to add backlinks using AI:
Highlight a selection of text within a note, or highlight the entire note by using cmd + a.
Pull up the AI palette editor using cmd + j or by clicking on the magic stars icon in the editor menu.
Select the prompt titled “Decorate my writing with backlinks”
Replace the text, and your backlinks will be added!
Find the full video walkthrough here.
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Other updates:
A 50% memory usage improvement on the mobile app
Option to configure text size in the iOS app
[H2] Reflect API
We’ve publicly released our API, which supports appending data to your notes, returning a list of the links you've bookmarked, and a few other things.
You can find information on how to access the API, the available endpoints and more on our Academy Page.
We’ve also got a video walkthrough showing how to generate an access token here.
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[H2] iOS audio memo widget
We’ve released a widget for iOS that lets you record and transcribe voice notes with one tap from your lock screen.
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To install the widget:
Make sure you have the latest version of Reflect on Testflight
Press and hold down on your lock screen
Tap customize and select your lock screen
Tap “add widgets” and select Reflect
We also have a video walkthrough you can watch here.
[H2] Massive speed increase to our mobile app
Today we released the database rewrite I've been working on for the past few weeks.
It changes how the entire app works internally, and effectively reduces the memory footprint greatly.
Practically, you'll notice:
Much faster startup time
No more mobile reloads if you have a large graph
Less obvious, but still important: Reflect will now take up much less system resources. We're getting close to what native apps can achieve in terms of both speed and lightweightness.
To get the updated app, just refresh Testflight.
[H2] New Chrome extension
We’ve released a new version of our Chrome extension.
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It’s been fully redesigned with a few new features:
Save a link to Reflect with a single click
Toggle automatic highlighting when you select text
Remove highlights that you’ve made on a page
Toggle your Kindle sync to b