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Append text to a note (creating it if absent)

POST
/notes/append
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.engram.page/notes/append \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{ "path": "Daily/2026-06-20.md", "text": "\n- [ ] Ship the API docs coverage gate\n" }'

Appends text to the note at path, returning created: false. If the note does not exist it is created with a heading derived from the filename plus the text, returning created: true.

Authorizations

Section titled “Authorizations”

Request Bodyrequired

Section titled “Request Bodyrequired”

Path + text

Media typeapplication/json
AppendRequest
object
path
required
string
text
required
string

Example 

{
  "path": "Daily/2026-06-20.md",
  "text": "\n- [ ] Ship the API docs coverage gate\n"
}

Responses

Section titled “Responses”

200

Section titled “200”

Appended

Media typeapplication/json
AppendResponse
object
created
boolean
note
Note
object
content
string
content_hash
string
nullable
description

OKF frontmatter description field

string
nullable
fm_created

OKF frontmatter created/date field

string format: date-time
nullable
fm_timestamp

OKF frontmatter timestamp/modified/updated field

string format: date-time
nullable
folder
string
nullable
id
string format: uuid
nullable
links

Outgoing link/embed edges, resolved. Wikilink and markdown syntax alike.

Array<object>
NoteLink
object
alias

Display text: [[target|alias]]’s alias, or [label](target)’s label.

string
nullable
anchor

Heading/block reference: [[target#anchor]] or [x](target#anchor).

string
nullable
dangling
required

True when the target could not be resolved.

boolean
link_type
required

“wikilink” or “embed” — whether the link EMBEDS its target. Not the source syntax; markdown-form links carry these same two values.

string
target_attachment_id
string format: uuid
nullable
target_note_id
string format: uuid
nullable
target_path

Resolved note path.

string
nullable
target_text
required

The link target, percent-DECODED. [[Target]] and [x](Target.md) both yield Target/Target.md here — not the literal source bytes.

string
mtime

Client mtime (epoch seconds)

number format: float
parse_reason

Present when parse_status is “degraded”: {code, message, detail}

object
parse_status

Frontmatter parse outcome

string
nullable
Allowed values: ok degraded
path
required
string
resource

OKF frontmatter resource field

string
nullable
tags
Array<string>
title
string
nullable
type

OKF frontmatter type field

string
nullable
updated_at
string format: date-time
nullable
version
integer
nullable
path
string

Example 

{
  "note": {
    "parse_status": "ok",
    "path": "Projects/engram.md"
  }
}

422

Section titled “422”

Validation error

Media typeapplication/json
Error
object
errors
One of:
string

Example generated

{
  "errors": {}
}