Make light work of strategy

Sidenote is a notepad that helps strategic thinkers explore ideas and create options, fast.

We won't spam you or sell your data.

Pick a Framework

Business Model Canvas, Strategy Choice Cascade, UX Journey Map and more. Pick from templates or create your own.

Ideate Quickly

Quickly populate your canvas with your thoughts. Each has proper help and examples to guide your thinking.

Share and Discuss

Share a Live Link so you can share your thinking with others and let them see you update it as you work.

Structured and flexible

Create Sidenotes that mirror your processes, workshop agendas or analysis approaches.

See the whole picture

Start from scratch or use a template. Creating, populating and tweaking Sidenotes is fast and easy.

Communicate clearly

Use markdown to format your contet. Create bullet-point lists, quotes and headings in your canvases.

Work quickly and at speed

Spin-off new strategic ideas fast by duplicating any canvas, or quickly add new columns to your existing ones. Anything goes.

Fast desktop app

Easy to use

Try it yourself!

Work Offline

Use it on planes or trains with no internet connection.

Mac, Windows & iPad

Sidenote works where you are, on your PC or MacBook or tablet.

Cloud Sync & Share (optional)

Subscribe to Sidenote Cloud to sync across devices and Live Share.

Templates with benefits

Your template library helps you get off to a quick start, authored and annotated by industry experts.

For Product Managers

RICE, User Story Maps, Product Development

For Strategy Consultants

Strategy Choice Campaign, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition

For UX Designers

User Story Map, Interview Scripts, Backlog

Create your own

Extensive Help

Community Support

What we hope people will say :)

If you help us Beta test, we hope you'll say things like this.

5 / 5

I can blat out three business models in no time. This is great for exploring ideas fast.

Jane Doe - CEO at ACME inc.

4.5 / 5

The help feature is really useful for reminding me how to use the canvases.

John Smith - Lead designer at Design Firm