Research notebook · citations as objects

Fieldnote is a research notebook where every citation is a first-class object — a real DOI you can point at, deduplicated across the whole lab. Protocols version like code. Your knowledge graph is one keystroke away.

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Notes
Hippocampal replay during slow-wave sleepnote · 14 claims
Meta-analysis: sharp-wave ripple densitynote · 33 claims
Protocols
Patch-clamp rig calibrationv4.2 · signed
Citations
Buzsáki 2015 — Hippocampal sharp wave-ripples10.1002/hipo · 4.1k
8 results

Live demo. Type to fuzzy-search fictional notes · arrow keys to move · Enter to open.

The workflow

Capture, cite, connect.

Three moves take a raw observation to a linked, cited, searchable claim. Each one is a real surface in Fieldnote — scroll, and the rail follows.

01

Capture

Write in plain Markdown. Fieldnote parses every sentence into a claim you can point at — no forms, no fields to fill.

  • Block editor with slash commands
  • Auto-links to existing notes as you type
  • Offline-first, keystroke-versioned
02

Cite

Attach a source to any claim and it becomes an object — a real DOI, resolvable, deduplicated across the whole lab. Hover a citation to read its receipt.

  • Paste a DOI, get a formatted source
  • One source, cited everywhere, counted once
  • Hover-card shows authors, venue, year
Hippocampal replay during slow-wave sleep2 hours ago · v12
lab/hippocampus/replay.note

During slow-wave sleep, place-cell sequences recorded in waking are , a phenomenon we treat as the substrate of consolidation. Each replay event rides on a in CA1, and its density scales with the prior day’s learning. This links directly to the , where sleep renormalises the weights that waking experience drove up.

03

Connect

Backlinks and shared citations weave your notes into a graph. Search it in one keystroke; watch a question light up its neighbourhood.

  • Bidirectional backlinks, automatic
  • Shared-citation edges between notes
  • ⌘K jumps anywhere in ~7 ms

The knowledge graph

One lab. One graph. One keystroke.

Backlinks and shared citations connect every note. Hover a node to light its neighbourhood — the same edges Fieldnote traverses when you search. Nothing here is entered twice.

graph · 10 nodes · 12 edges
ReplaySW-rippleSWSHomeostasisPatch v4.2Place cellsMeta-analysisCRISPRAstrocytes2P align

By the numbers

Built to be trusted with the record.

2.4M
citations linked
1,840
labs onboarded
96K
protocols versioned
7ms
median search latency

Pricing

Priced for a notebook, then a lab.

Academic?Verified students, postdocs, and non-profit labs get Lab free. The graph should never be a paywall between you and your own work.

Scholar

For a single researcher and their notebook.

$0forever
  • Unlimited notes & citations
  • Full-text + citation search
  • Knowledge graph
  • 1 000 DOI resolves / mo
  • Local export (Markdown + BibTeX)

Institution

For departments, cores, and consortia.

Customannual
  • Everything in Lab
  • SSO / SAML & SCIM
  • On-prem or private cloud
  • ORCID & repository sync
  • Data-residency controls
  • Named onboarding engineer

Start the notebook

Stop losing the why behind the what.

Every note you take in Fieldnote arrives cited, linked, and searchable. Open the palette and feel it — no signup for the demo.

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