Keepsake Blog (EN)

Matthew Berman's 26 CRM Prompts, Analyzed

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago, Matthew Berman published a video that got a lot of attention in the AI community: “21 use cases I use every day with OpenClaw.” 4,000 likes, 480 retweets, and dozens of comments asking: how do I do the same?

I watched the video. Read the 26 prompts he published. Analyzed his PRD (his full architecture document, which he made public). I want to tell you exactly what he built — and what it actually takes.

What Matthew Berman Actually Built

His system runs locally on a MacBook Air. The core is a personal CRM that automatically ingests Gmail and Google Calendar. An LLM reads each email, decides whether the contact is worth saving, researches them, then stores them in a SQLite database with 768-dimensional Gemini vector embeddings.

The result: 1,174 contacts. Natural language search (“who do I know at NVIDIA?” or “who haven’t I talked to in a while?”). Relationship health scores. Follow-up reminders you can create, snooze, or mark done. Automatic duplicate detection.

In parallel, he connected Fathom (meeting transcription): when a meeting ends, the system waits 20 minutes, retrieves the transcript, identifies the attendees in his CRM, extracts action items, and sends an approval queue in Telegram. Approved tasks go straight to Todoist.

There’s also a Knowledge Base: drop a URL into Telegram, and the system ingests the article, the YouTube video (with transcript), the full Twitter thread and all its linked content. Everything is vectorized and queryable in plain English.

It’s impressive. Genuinely.

The Real Architecture

What Berman didn’t highlight in the video is what his PRD reveals: 20 SQLite tables, 22 custom installed skills, dozens of Node.js scripts (sync.js, batch-scan.js, fathom-sync.js, health-check.js, restore-from-backups.js…), a full test suite, database migrations, hourly encrypted backups to Google Drive.

He built it over weeks. He maintains it continuously. When something breaks — and things break — he’s the one debugging.

Why I’m Telling You This

Not to discourage you. I’m telling you this because what Berman built is exactly the vision behind Keepsake.

Same intentions. Same problem to solve: the important relationships that fade, the conversations that disappear into noise, the mental load of “don’t forget to follow up with James.” The difference is the approach.

What Keepsake does out of the box:

Contacts with interaction history and linked notes
Journal entries connected to people, projects, and ideas
Tasks linked to contacts
Instant search, accent-insensitive
Everything synced, accessible from any device

No terminal. No JSON config. No migrations to manage. No backups to monitor.

What Keepsake doesn’t have yet:

Let’s be honest. Two things Berman has that I find genuinely useful are missing:

The relationship health score — a visible indicator that says “you haven’t heard from Marc in 47 days.” Simple to understand, powerful in practice. It’s on the roadmap.
Automatic email ingestion — contacts creating themselves from incoming emails. Berman spent weeks building this. It’s the next major step for Keepsake.

What Berman’s Video Confirms

The need is real. Thousands of people want a personal CRM that fits them — one that remembers what matters, helps them maintain relationships without the mental overhead.

Most of those people won’t open a terminal and write prompts for three weeks. They want something that works.

That’s who I’m building Keepsake for.

If you want to try it: app.keepsake.place — 7 days free, no credit card required.

New: Company profiles in Keepsake

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Until now, Keepsake managed your contacts — the people. But in real life, your relationships aren’t only with individuals. You interact with companies, organizations, schools, and institutions.

You can now create company profiles in Keepsake.

Each company has its own details (phone, email, address, website, notes), and you can link contacts to it.

When you open a company profile, all its contact details are right there. With one tap, you can copy any information or take action: call, send an email, or send a text.

Same goes for the people linked to that company: they’re listed and you can reach them in one tap, or open their personal profile.

Here’s what it looks like in practice: you create the “Synapse Technologies” profile, link Baptiste (the sales director) and Sophie (the HR director) to it, and when you need to figure out who to contact to move a deal forward, everything is in one place.

It’s simple, it’s what you’ve been waiting for, and it’s available right now.

But it doesn’t stop there. The real power of company profiles in Keepsake is that they bring together, in one place, everything happening around that company.

Scroll down a company profile and you’ll discover:

Tasks: those belonging to the company itself, plus all tasks linked to each person who works there.

As you can see in the screenshot below: two tasks for Sophie, two tasks for Amandine, and so on. Everything grouped in one place, so nothing slips through the cracks.

Notes: same principle — notes let you capture information worth keeping, and they pull together notes from all the company’s contacts in one view.

Journal (history): this section shows all interactions — texts, emails, calls, meetings, events, and more — along with completed tasks, whether they relate to the company itself or to any of its team members.

Company profiles are already live.

Open Keepsake and try it.

And as always, if you have a question or a suggestion, reach out at support@keepsake.place.

— Nicolas

Best Journal App with Contacts: Why Both Together

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You keep a journal. Or you try to.

Maybe it’s Day One. Maybe it’s a Notion database. Maybe it’s a notes app on your phone that you open three times a week and close without writing anything.

But here’s what most journal apps miss: your life isn’t just thoughts. It’s people.

That meeting with Marc where he mentioned his mother was sick. The conversation with Sarah where she told you her startup pivot. The coffee with a mentor who gave you advice you still think about six months later.

All of that lives in your head — or nowhere at all.

The Problem with Traditional Journal Apps

Journal apps are built around you. Your thoughts, your reflections, your moods.

That’s valuable. But it’s half the picture.

The other half is your relationships. And when your journal and your contacts live in separate silos, you lose something important: context over time.

You remember what happened. You forget who it happened with. And more importantly, you forget the texture of those relationships — what you talked about, what you learned, what you promised.

The Problem with Traditional Contact Apps

Contact apps are the opposite problem.

They store names, phone numbers, emails. Maybe a birthday. But they’re static — a Rolodex, not a relationship.

They don’t capture:

The last meaningful conversation you had
What that person is working on right now
What you owe them, or what they’re counting on you for
The thread that connects all your interactions over years

Most “personal CRM” tools try to solve this, but they end up feeling like work tools — pipelines, stages, follow-up reminders. Built for sales, adapted awkwardly to human connection.

What a Journal App with Contacts Actually Looks Like

The right tool connects both worlds. Not just side-by-side, but woven together.

Here’s what that means in practice:

When you add a journal entry, you can tag the people who were part of it. That entry then lives in their profile — a record of your shared history, automatically built as you write.

When you open a contact, you see everything: notes, past interactions, tasks related to them, and the specific journal entries where they appeared. Not a CRM pipeline. A relationship archive.

When you review your day, you’re not just processing your thoughts — you’re maintaining the relationships that give those thoughts meaning.

This is what we built Keepsake around: the idea that your inner life and your relational life aren’t separate. They’re the same life, just seen from different angles.

Why This Matters More Than You Think

There’s a reason the most connected people — the ones who seem to know everyone and always say the right thing — aren’t smarter than you.

They remember more.

They remembered that you mentioned your daughter’s school play. They remembered that you were nervous about that job interview. They remembered that you’d been thinking about moving abroad for years before you finally did it.

Most people assume that kind of memory is a gift. It’s not. It’s a system.

A journal app with contacts is that system. Not a replacement for caring about people — a support structure that lets you care better, because you’re not relying on your brain to hold everything.

Keepsake: Built for This

Keepsake started from a simple frustration: every note about a person lived somewhere different. Some in a journal. Some in a contact’s notes field. Some in email threads. Some in my head.

The result was the worst of all worlds — information everywhere, context nowhere.

Keepsake connects:

Entries (your journal, thoughts, interactions)
Contacts (people in your life, with full history)
Tasks (things to do, linked to people and projects)
Days (daily review, everything in one place)

The keyword is continuity. Not productivity. Not efficiency. The quiet compounding of context over time, until you become the person who never forgets what matters.

Is Keepsake the Right Journal App with Contacts for You?

Keepsake is for people who think in the long term. If you’re optimizing for daily task completion, there are better tools.

But if you’re building something — a career, a network, a body of work, a life — and you feel like the fragments aren’t connecting the way they should, Keepsake is worth trying.

Start free for 7 days →

No credit card required.

Keepsake 0.12: tags, batch select, and smarter notes

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every time you use a tool, there’s friction. Tiny unnecessary gestures. One extra click, a piece of info to re-enter, a tag forgotten.

Individually, it’s nothing. But multiply that by 20, 50, 100 times a week, and it adds up. Worse: it slows you down exactly when you have an idea to capture, a task to log, a piece of information to file.

Keepsake 0.12 tackles those frictions. No visual revolution — but improvements that change how you interact with the app every day.

Tags in one click, everywhere

Before, to add a tag to a task or an entry, you had to use the #tag# syntax in the text. It worked, but it wasn’t very intuitive. (If you’re new to tags and pages in Keepsake, this page explains the concept.)

Now, a tag selector is available in every creation and editing form — tasks, entries, notes. Click, pick, done.

And when you edit a task or entry directly in the list (quick edit mode), the tag selector is right there too. No need to open a separate form.

The contact and tag badges under your items update instantly. You see the result of your changes in real time.

Batch select in the Inbox

If you have 15 notes to process, doing them one by one is tedious.

You can now select multiple notes at once in your Inbox. Checkboxes appear, and a floating action bar shows up at the bottom of the screen.

What you can do in a single action across the entire selection:

Copy the content
Merge several notes into one
Pin or unpin
Add a tag or contact to all selected notes
Convert to tasks
Delete

A “Select all” button lets you process your entire Inbox in one click. Perfect for your Sunday evening or Friday morning triage sessions.

Your notes never lose anything

Three improvements that change how comfortable writing feels:

Auto-save. As soon as you start typing a new note, it’s saved. If your browser crashes, if you accidentally close the tab, if your connection drops — your text is there.

Contacts and tags from the start. Before you even write a word, you can link a contact or a tag to your note from the bar under the input field. By the time you start writing, everything is already organized.

Quick capture bar in focus mode. You’re deep into a long note in full-screen mode and an unrelated thought pops up? The quick note bar is always accessible at the top. Capture the idea on the fly, then get back to your writing.

Convert notes without losing context

You took a quick note with a contact mentioned and a tag attached. Later, you decide to turn it into a task.

Before, contacts and tags were lost in the conversion. You had to add them back manually.

Not anymore. When you convert a note into a task or entry, the mentioned contacts and associated tags are preserved. Everything follows.

T+ASAP and T+? for your tasks

You may know the T+3 syntax to create a task in 3 days directly from the quick note bar. Two new shortcuts join the family:

T+ASAP: creates a priority task with no fixed date — for things to handle as soon as possible
T+?: creates a “someday maybe” task — for ideas to keep without pressure

Concrete examples:

Reply to Marie's proposal T+ASAP → priority task, no fixed date
Read the book Paul recommended T+? → in the “someday” list, no pressure

Clickable @mentions and companies

Contact @mentions are now clickable everywhere in the app. In a note, a task, an entry — click a name and you go straight to their profile.

And when you type @, your companies now appear in the suggestions too, alongside your contacts. An @Synapse Technologies takes you to the company profile.

Fixes

Text formatting shortcuts (strikethrough, highlight) now work on Safari
Entries added on the same day are displayed in the correct chronological order
Using the quick note bar while writing an entry no longer causes your text to disappear
Unchecking a task during the 5-second countdown now works correctly

Everything is already live. Open Keepsake and try it.

If you don’t have an account yet, the trial is free for 7 days — and all these features are available from day one.

And as always, if you have a question or suggestion, reach out at support@keepsake.place.

— Nicolas

Keepsake 0.13: sections, archives, and custom pages

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The more you use a tool, the more it accumulates. Tasks, notes, contacts. And the more it accumulates, the more you need structure to keep from drowning in it.

Keepsake 0.13 gives you that structure. Sections to organize your tasks, archives to declutter your Inbox, colors and icons to identify your pages at a glance — and a complete overhaul of task editing.

Archives: clean up your Inbox without losing anything

Your Inbox is made for fast capture. But if you never delete anything, it turns into a swamp.

The problem: deleting is permanent. And sometimes, you’re not sure you want to lose a note.

Keepsake 0.13 adds archives. In one gesture, move a note out of your Inbox — without deleting it. It goes to a dedicated view where you can find it, search it, filter it.

And if you change your mind, one click brings it back to the Inbox.

The idea: your Inbox is a temporary holding space. Regularly, you sort through the notes you captured during the day. Either you turn them into tasks or entries, or you archive them.

Your archives become your personal knowledge base. You’ll find all the notes you want to keep (ideas, recipes, quotes, etc.), all linked with contacts or tags to always maintain context and easily find what you’re looking for.

An example to make it concrete

You’re at a friend’s place, and you quickly jot down, via QuickNote, the chocolate cake recipe you just tasted and loved.

That evening, back home, you find this recipe in your Inbox.

You link the note to your friend, so you remember she’s the one who gave it to you, add the “Recipe” tag, then archive your note.

It disappears from your Inbox, so it’s no longer cluttered, but you can find it:

In your archives,
On your friend’s contact page, and
On the Recipe tag page

You can of course add multiple tags to the same note. Why not Recipe + Dessert + Chocolate. You can then group all your recipes on one page, all your desserts on another, everything related to chocolate on a third.

And on the Chocolate page, you’ll have your recipe, but you can also add people (who do you think of when you think chocolate?), companies (the best chocolate shop in town?), other notes (an anecdote, a quote about chocolate, a historical fact about chocolate…).

Little by little, information aggregates. Maybe one day that passion for chocolate will turn into an article, or even a book… You’ll have everything at hand, in Keepsake.

Sections: organize your tasks visually

Your task lists on a page were getting long? You can now break them into sections.

Create headers like “To Do”, “In Progress” or “Waiting”. Each section is collapsible — empty sections collapse automatically and move to the bottom of the page to stay out of the way.

You can rearrange tasks between sections with drag and drop. And each section can have a description to clarify its purpose.

It’s like a mini-kanban, but naturally integrated into your Keepsake pages.

Custom pages: colors and icons

Your pages (tags) are at the heart of organization in Keepsake. But when you have 10, 15, 20 of them in the sidebar, they all look the same.

Now, you can assign a color and an icon to each page. The color shows up in the sidebar and on tag badges throughout the app. The icon provides instant visual identification.

Result: you spot your pages at a glance, without reading the text.

Edit tasks without leaving the list

Before, editing a task meant opening a separate form. One more click, a context switch, a micro-interruption.

That’s over. Click a task: it opens directly in the list. Edit the title, the description, and an action bar appears with everything you need — date, recurrence, delete, collapse.

The date picker offers smart shortcuts: Today, Tomorrow, Next week, ASAP. One click and you’re done.

When you click elsewhere or open another task, saving is automatic. No “Save” button, no friction.

And more

Search filtered by type — filter results by notes, tasks, contacts, etc.
Reorderable favorites — drag and drop your favorites in the sidebar to arrange them however you like
Compact filters on tag pages — more room for content
Full-screen note creation from contact, company, or page profiles
Near-instant operations — note creation and editing optimized for speed
Improved offline mode — the quick capture bar persists even without a connection
Batch actions in the “All Pages” view

Everything is already live. Open Keepsake and try it.

If you don’t have an account yet, the trial is free for 7 days — all these features are available from day one.

And as always, if you have a question or suggestion, reach out at support@keepsake.place.

— Nicolas

QuickNotes, Notes, and rich editor: everything that changes in Keepsake

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Keepsake introduces a major overhaul of note management. Two distinct note types, a rich text editor, dedicated pages, and permanent links — all designed to separate fast capture from lasting organization.

QuickNotes and Notes: two tools, two purposes

Until now, all notes worked the same way. From today, Keepsake makes a clear distinction between two types.

QuickNotes are for capturing an idea, a piece of information, or a reminder in seconds. They land in the Inbox and stay there until you decide what to do with them: turn them into a task, archive them as a Note, or delete them. It’s the zero-friction capture tool.

Notes are your knowledge base. A meeting summary, a procedure, ideas for a project, information linked to a contact. Notes are archived, organized by tags and contacts, and findable at any time.

In short: a QuickNote is a sticky note. A Note is a filed index card.

To learn more about how QuickNotes work, see the Help Center article. The full note lifecycle (capture, archiving, organization) is detailed in Notes: from capture to archive.

Dedicated pages with auto-save

Every Note now has its own page. Not a modal, not a side panel — a full page where you can write and organize your information.

Saving is automatic. You write, the content is saved continuously. No “Save” button, no risk of losing work.

Archived notes display as compact cards with a content preview, making it easy to find the information you’re looking for at a glance.

A rich editor to structure your notes

The Note editor now supports rich formatting: headings, bold, italic, bullet lists, and numbered lists. A floating toolbar appears when you select text.

Tags autocomplete when you type # or [[, and contacts appear with @. This lets you quickly link your notes to projects and contacts without leaving the editor.

To understand how tags organize your notes, tasks, and contacts in one place, see Tags & Pages.

Permanent links for every note

Every Note has a unique, permanent URL. You can bookmark it in your browser, paste it into another application, or share it.

This means your notes become stable references, accessible directly without navigating through the app.

Context-aware creation from tag and contact pages

When you create a note from a tag page (for example #Home project#), it’s automatically archived and linked to that tag. It doesn’t go through the Inbox.

The same behavior applies from a contact’s profile. If you’re on Sophie’s page and create a note, it will be directly linked to Sophie and archived.

The principle: if you’re already in a context, the information you add is already organized. No intermediate step needed.

To learn more about contact profiles and the information you can attach to them, see Contact Profiles.

Cmd+K: paste a link, navigate

Quick search (Cmd+K) now accepts Keepsake links. Copy the URL of a note, contact, tag, or task, paste it into the search bar, and you’re taken directly to that page.

This is especially useful if you keep Keepsake links in other tools (task manager, messaging app, documents).

Company selector on contacts

You can now associate a company with a contact directly from their profile. Select an existing company from the list or create one on the fly. No more manually typing the name each time.

Available now

All these features are accessible immediately on Keepsake. If you don’t have an account yet, the free 7-day trial gives you access to all features.

Keepsake — Public publishing, photos, and slash commands

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This release adds three new capabilities to Keepsake and reshapes how you start your day. You can now publish a note to a public page under your name, capture photos directly into your notes, and format your content from the keyboard with slash commands. Everything remains guided by the same principle: private by default, public only when you decide so.

Your Keepsake Page

Every account now has a public page at keepsake.place/@your-handle. This is your Keepsake Page — a publishing space designed to share your notes with the world, without leaving Keepsake.

How it works

Every note now displays a globe icon. Clicking it opens a confirmation dialog, then publishes the note to your public page. Clicking again unpublishes the note, which returns to private.

Each published note has its own permanent URL: keepsake.place/@your-handle/note-title. The URL is shareable directly — copy it into a message, post it on social media, or use it in an email signature.

Profile customization

In Settings, a new “Keepsake Page” section lets you configure your public page:

Handle (username): three to thirty characters, lowercase letters, digits, hyphens, and underscores. Your handle becomes the URL of your page. Availability is checked in real time as you type.
Display name: the public name, distinct from your real name if you prefer.
Bio: a short introduction.
Links: a list of external links (website, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn…), displayed on your public page.

Private by default, public by choice

Publishing is always an explicit action. No note is ever published without your confirmation. Your QuickNotes, entries, and tasks remain fully private. Only the notes you actively publish appear on your Keepsake Page.

For the full details, see the Keepsake Page help article.

Photos in notes

Your notes now support photos. Three ways to add them:

Camera button in the QuickNote bar

The capture bar at the top of the Inbox includes a new camera button. On mobile, it opens your phone’s camera directly; on desktop, the file picker. The image is automatically compressed (1200 px, 80% quality) and a QuickNote is created in a single gesture.

Drag-and-drop and paste

All note editors now accept drag-and-drop images and clipboard paste (Cmd+V / Ctrl+V). No special button, no extra step: the image is uploaded and inserted at the cursor position.

Photo-post layout

When a note starts with an image, it automatically renders in a “photo-post” format across all views: a hero image on top, a caption below. The layout adapts to Inbox cards, archived notes, contact profiles, and tag pages.

When a photo note is deleted, the underlying image is automatically removed from storage. No orphan files.

For the full details, see the photos in notes help article.

Slash commands (/)

Typing / in any note editor now opens a command palette, similar to the autocomplete system already used for tags and contacts.

Formatting

/h1 and /h2 — headings
/list — bullet list
/task — checklist
/quote — blockquote
/code — code block
/separator — horizontal line

Insertion

/image — opens the file picker

Note transformation

/split — splits the note in two at the cursor: content above stays in the original note, content below becomes a new note.
/duplicate — creates a copy of the current note.

Slash commands work everywhere: the QuickNote bar, the entry editor, the dedicated note page. They combine with existing Markdown syntax and with tag and contact mentions.

For the full details, see the slash commands help article.

Intention of the day

The “daily note” is replaced by a prompt-oriented feature: the Intention of the day. One line, to be completed each morning, to set a mantra, a priority, or an affirmation that will guide your day.

Yesterday’s intention appears in gray italics above the empty form, as inspiration for today’s. It’s a quiet thread between your days.

The intention is visible everywhere you need it:

In the Today view, at the top of the page
In the Journal, under each day’s header
In the right sidebar, under the week number, with a “Define an intention” link when not yet set

This is a conceptual shift: the underlying field remains the same (a free-form note per day), but the framing encourages a short, reflective practice rather than a long journaling session.

For the full details, see the daily workflow help article.

Remote MCP endpoint

For AI assistant users, a new endpoint lets you connect Claude to Keepsake without installing a local server: https://app.keepsake.place/api/mcp. It works directly with Claude iOS, Claude web, and Claude Desktop Connectors.

All 58 Keepsake tools (contacts, tasks, notes, entries, tags, search) are available immediately with an API key. For existing users of npx keepsake-mcp, the local installation remains fully supported.

For the full details, see the AI integration page.

In summary

This release expands Keepsake along three axes: publishing, visual capture, and writing efficiency. Each feature follows the same logic: enrich the tool without cluttering its daily use. You remain in control of what stays private and what becomes public, and the capture experience — the heart of Keepsake — stays in the foreground.

Everything is available today for all accounts. Full details, feature by feature, are documented in the Help Center and on the Changelog page.

Keepsake — Your Keepsake Page, your way

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Two days after its launch, the Keepsake Page — the public space where you publish your notes at keepsake.place/@your-handle — gains five appearance settings, and rebuilds its rendering around an editorial typography. Every writer can now choose how their page looks.

Three themes

From Settings, a new Appearance section offers three themes for your public page:

Ivory (default) — a warm, light background with a brown ink. The softest theme, made for reading long-form text.
Paper — a cool neutral with a near-black ink. More classical, magazine-like.
Night — a warm dark background, not a pure inversion. Designed to stay legible and calm for evening reading.

Each theme is a complete system, not just a two-color swap: primary and secondary background, three shades of ink, hairlines. One click, everything shifts.

Four accents

An accent colors the opening quote mark of blockquotes, hover states on links, the heart in the footer, and text selection. Four choices, independent from the theme:

Terre de Sienne (default) — a muted red-brown.
Prussian Blue — a deep blue.
Sage Green — a soft green.
Ink — a very quiet accent, close to black ink.

On the Night theme, Sage Green lightens automatically so it stays readable on the dark background.

Editorial typography

The public rendering has been rebuilt around an editorial typography that reads like a book.

A few details that make the page enjoyable to read:

An optional drop cap at the start of written notes.
Relative timestamps (“3 hours ago”) for recent notes, and the absolute date beyond 24 hours.
Monthly dividers in Roman numerals (“04 — MMXXVI”) between notes from different months.

A Contact button and page language

Two last settings in Appearance:

Contact email — an optional field. If filled, a Contact button appears in your page header. Leave it empty to hide it — nothing is exposed by default.
Page language — French or English, independent from your app language. Labels (dates, note kinds, footer) localize to your choice.

New interactions

Beyond appearance, navigation has evolved:

Click anywhere on a note to open it. Internal markdown links within a note remain clickable normally.
The date is a permalink to the individual note, following the convention of social media.
Tags, mentions, and references (#tag#, [[page]], @mention@) render as plain text on the public page.

Make it yours

The new Appearance section is available right now in Settings → Keepsake Page. All changes apply instantly, with no reload.

To see the result in action, have a look at Nicolas’s Keepsake Page — Ivory theme, Terre de Sienne accent.

For the full details, see the Help Center article on customizing your Keepsake Page.

Keepsake — Your Page now collects email subscribers

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your Keepsake Page — the public space where you publish your notes at keepsake.place/@your-handle — can now do more than display your posts. It collects email subscribers and sends them a letter at the cadence you choose. Zero setup: the form is already on your page, and the system is active by default.

The inspiration is clear: Hey World, 37signals’ publishing tool. A quiet letter, no ads, no tracking. Not a blog, not a social network — just a corner of the web to share what’s worth sharing, and a direct channel to the readers who want to hear more.

Right under your bio, before the RSS / Contact links, a small subscribe block appears: an italic line — “Subscribe to receive my posts:” — with an email field and a SUBSCRIBE button.

The flow is double opt-in, on principle:

The visitor enters their email and clicks Subscribe.
They immediately receive a confirmation email at that address.
They click the confirmation button. Their subscription is active.
They receive a mini-digest with your three latest posts, to start.

No spam, no shady lists: only confirmed emails join your subscriber list.

Three cadences — you choose

From Settings → Email letter, you pick how often a letter goes out:

Weekly (default) — one letter every Monday morning, recapping what you published in the past week. The rhythm that fits most steady writers.
Daily — one email per day, when you’ve published. Ideal for travel diaries, live events, intense writing periods.
Off — no emails sent, and the subscribe form disappears from your page.

No publication on a period = no email sent. Your subscribers never receive an empty letter. And you can change the cadence anytime: your subscribers don’t see your settings, they just see your posts arrive.

What the letter looks like

The email carries the spirit of your page: same theme colors, same serif typography, same calm. It’s not a marketing email — it’s a letter.

A single photo shows at full width. Two to four are arranged in a 2-column grid. Above four, the first four show plus a “+N other photos →” link to the full post. Each thumbnail is clickable.

Long posts are truncated in the letter, with a “Read more →” link to the full note on your Keepsake Page. The letter caps at twenty posts per send — beyond that, a “View all posts →” link points to your page.

Your subscribers are yours

Three commitments built into the system from the first send:

Replies land in your inbox. When a subscriber clicks Reply, their response goes to the Contact email you’ve set on your page. Your readers can write back; your conversations stay real.
A native “Unsubscribe” button shows in Gmail, Yahoo, and Apple Mail right in the inbox header (RFC 8058 compliant). One-click unsubscribe, no tricks.
CSV export anytime. A button in Settings downloads your full list: email, status, subscribed and confirmed dates. Open in Excel, import into any other tool. Your list is yours.

During your Keepsake trial

Subscriptions are accepted from day one. Your audience can start growing immediately. The letters themselves are paused during the trial period; the next scheduled letter goes out as soon as you activate your Keepsake subscription.

Going further

For most creators, the Keepsake letter is plenty: form, double opt-in, regular letter, replies, export. When you need advanced features — segments, A/B testing, automations, paid newsletters — pair Keepsake with a dedicated platform like Kit (formerly ConvertKit) using your page’s public RSS feed (keepsake.place/@your-handle/rss.xml).

The full “Build your audience” guide covers both approaches.

Make it yours

The feature is active right now for every Keepsake Page. The form appears under the bio of any page whose cadence is weekly or daily. To see it in action, have a look at Nicolas’s Keepsake Page.

To configure your letter, head to Settings → Email letter. Three cadences, a subscriber count, CSV export, and that’s it.

Keepsake Blog (EN)

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What Matthew Berman Actually Built

The Real Architecture

Why I’m Telling You This

What Berman’s Video Confirms

New: Company profiles in Keepsake

Best Journal App with Contacts: Why Both Together

The Problem with Traditional Journal Apps

The Problem with Traditional Contact Apps

What a Journal App with Contacts Actually Looks Like

Why This Matters More Than You Think

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Keepsake 0.12: tags, batch select, and smarter notes

Tags in one click, everywhere

Batch select in the Inbox

Your notes never lose anything

Convert notes without losing context

T+ASAP and T+? for your tasks

Clickable @mentions and companies

Fixes

Keepsake 0.13: sections, archives, and custom pages

Archives: clean up your Inbox without losing anything

An example to make it concrete

Sections: organize your tasks visually

Custom pages: colors and icons

Edit tasks without leaving the list

And more

QuickNotes, Notes, and rich editor: everything that changes in Keepsake

QuickNotes and Notes: two tools, two purposes

Dedicated pages with auto-save

A rich editor to structure your notes

Permanent links for every note

Context-aware creation from tag and contact pages

Cmd+K: paste a link, navigate

Company selector on contacts

Available now

Keepsake — Public publishing, photos, and slash commands

Your Keepsake Page

Photos in notes

Slash commands (/)

Intention of the day

Remote MCP endpoint

In summary

Keepsake — Your Keepsake Page, your way

Three themes

Four accents

Editorial typography

A Contact button and page language

New interactions

Make it yours

Keepsake — Your Page now collects email subscribers

How readers subscribe

Three cadences — you choose

What the letter looks like

Your subscribers are yours

During your Keepsake trial

Going further

Make it yours