Some things do not fit into a text field. The minutes of a long meeting. Everything you found out before making a decision. The concept you have been circling for weeks. SecBrain now has a place for exactly that, and it is called documents.
A note reminds you of something. A document explains it.
What was missing
SecBrain was already good at short things. A project has a description that says what it is. After an appointment you can write down how it went. A thought captures what is on your mind right now, with a timestamp, so you can look back later.
All of those are short by design, and that is the right call. But some texts are simply longer. Three pages of research. Minutes with fifteen bullet points. A concept with headings and a table. Until now those went into another app, and from that moment on they were separated from everything they were actually about.
A document stands on its own
The simplest way to tell the difference: if you would print it out and hand it to someone, it is a document. It makes sense without you standing next to it explaining the context.
That is why documents in SecBrain have a title, a full text and as much room as they need. Not a field on something else, but their own thing.
Markdown, because structure helps you think
You write documents in Markdown. If that word means nothing to you, it does not have to. In practice it means you write plain text and a few small marks give it structure. A hash sign makes a heading. A dash makes a list item. Two asterisks make something bold.
When you read the document afterwards, SecBrain renders all of that properly. Headings look like headings, lists look like lists, tables look like tables. So you get structure without a toolbar full of buttons, and your text stays plain text, which means it will still be readable in ten years.
There is one deliberate exception. Images from the internet are not loaded, they are shown as a link. Your document should not quietly contact a foreign server just because you are reading it.
Every document belongs somewhere
This is the part that makes documents different from a folder full of files. A document is attached to what it is about. To a project or an area of your life, to an appointment, and to the people involved.
The minutes of a meeting sit on that meeting. The research for a decision sits on the project you made it for. Background about a person sits on that person. You never have to remember where you filed anything. You go to the project, and there is its calendar, its tasks and now its documents.
Nine kinds of document
Every document has a type, so a long list stays readable at a glance. Note for anything without a clear shape, research, minutes, preparation, concept, summary, guide, decision, and profile for background about a person.
The types are not rules, they are labels. But they quietly answer a question that lists of files never answer: what am I actually looking at here?
And your AI can write them
SecBrain can be connected to an AI assistant like Claude. Until now it could read and plan with you. Now it can also write, straight into your projects.
Ask it to research something, to prepare a difficult conversation, or to summarise a long back and forth, and the result does not disappear into a chat you will never scroll back through. It lands as a document, on the right project, with the right type. The next time you open that project, it is simply there.
And it works the other way round too. The assistant can see which documents exist and read them when you ask it to. So the minutes it wrote in March are still available to it in September.
They are allowed to leave again
Documents can be given an expiry date. In ninety days, at the end of the quarter, or on a date you pick. When it arrives, the document moves into the trash, stays restorable there for two weeks, and is then deleted for good.
You do not have to use it. But the moment you write a text is the one moment where you know best how long it will stay relevant. Preparation for one conversation does not need to outlive you.
Private, like everything else
Documents are stored encrypted, the same way your activities and thoughts are. They belong to you, they are visible only to your account, and they are not read for advertising or any other purpose.
One place for your whole life
SecBrain has always been about making your own life visible instead of letting it blur. Your time, your projects, the people in them. Documents close the gap that was left: the longer texts that belong to all of that but never had a home.
Documents are available now. Start with one, on a project that already matters to you, and see how different it feels when the text sits next to everything it belongs to.