Where things stand: publishing is being built. Nothing is published here yet, and some of what follows describes how it will work rather than how it does. Anything not yet live says so.
What is knotetaker.com?
It’s where writing published from Knotetaker lives — posts, essays, collections of things someone found worth keeping. Think of it as the public side of a private tool.
How is this different from knotetaker.ai?
knotetaker.ai is the app: a private place to save things and get them back later. This site is the opposite — only what someone chose to make public, and nothing else.
They are deliberately separate websites rather than two halves of one. Your private notes and the public web should not share an address, and keeping them apart is a security decision as much as a tidy one.
Do I need an account to read?
No. Published posts are public web pages. Read away.
Do I need an account to comment?
Yes, once commenting exists. Signing in takes one tap with Google, and requiring it is the single most effective thing a small site can do about spam — far more effective, and far less annoying, than making people identify traffic lights.
Who can publish here?
Anyone with a Knotetaker account. It’s invite-only while it’s this young, so in practice that means friends of the person who built it.
What does it cost?
Nothing. A vanity URL — yourname.knotetaker.com instead of knotetaker.com/yourname — is planned as a paid upgrade later, but publishing itself is free and is meant to stay that way. Nothing you can do today will start costing money later.
Who owns what I publish?
You do. Publishing here grants permission to display it; it does not transfer anything. See the Terms.
Can I unpublish something?
Yes. Unpublishing removes it from this site. Note the honest limit that applies to the whole internet: anything that was public may already exist in someone’s cache, feed reader or screenshot, and no website can promise otherwise.
Will my links keep working?
Yes, and this is a deliberate commitment rather than an intention. A published URL is the one thing other people keep — bookmarked, linked, cited. Every post keeps one canonical address, and if you later move to a vanity URL the old address redirects to the new one permanently. Links should not rot because someone changed a plan.
Is there an RSS feed?
Planned, per author. Not yet.
Can I use my own domain?
Not yet. It’s the step after vanity subdomains, and the redirect commitment above is designed so that adding it later breaks nothing.
What about AI? Is my writing training data?
No. Knotetaker uses AI on the app side to organise what people save for themselves. Nothing published here is used to train models, and we don’t sell content or data.
Is anything here written by AI?
That’s up to each author. Knotetaker doesn’t generate posts for people, and it doesn’t publish anything on anyone’s behalf — a person decides what goes public, every time.
Something here is a problem. Who do I tell?
There will be a report control on every post once commenting ships. Until then, the contact route on the About page reaches a human — which, at this size, is one person.