Surfaces
Seven surfaces, each supporting a distinct task.
FinNotes does not present readers with a single content feed. Each surface is built around a specific kind of information work: tracking events, looking up data, reviewing visual analysis, drafting your own annotations, or following longer-form research.
Home
The main entry point. Lead story, current market priorities, and an editorial grid that surfaces the highest-importance pieces across desks.
Market News
Real-time coverage of market-moving events, policy actions, releases, and cross-asset developments. Each piece carries a named byline, named editor, and traceable sources where applicable.
Chart News
Editorial pieces built around a chart. Visual analysis of macro, rates, commodity, or cross-asset patterns — with the underlying time series attached and inspectable.
Data
Indices, rates, FX, commodities, macroeconomic indicators. Taxonomy navigation, series lookup, and detail pages that combine the time series with related news and editorial context.
ChartStudio
A professional drawing layer on every data-series page. Trend lines, rays, parallel channels, Elliott waves, rectangles, annotations — saved per user, per series, and synced across sessions. Designed for active market readers who want to mark up the chart in front of them.
Research
Longer-form thematic columns. Structured market questions, reference frameworks, and connected datasets that link back to series and news. For readers building a mental model rather than tracking the day.
Notes
A personal workspace. Save bookmarks across articles, charts, and data series, write Markdown notes with chart embeds, organise into folders and reading lists. Designed to act as a working notebook for your own market review, not as a public publishing surface.
Search
Unified search across articles, research columns, data series, and your own notes. Token-and-tag semantics — phrase-quoted strings stay intact, multiple tokens narrow the result.
Navigation Logic
Move between events, data, charts, and your own notes without breaking the trail.
A market reader rarely consumes one piece of information in isolation. Reading an inflation print typically leads to looking at the underlying series, then a chart-news piece, then perhaps a related research column, then a personal note for a follow-up question next week. FinNotes is built to make those transitions cheap.
From an event to its underlying data
Market-news pages auto-attach the related time series (where the article's tags match a registered data series), rendered as an inline glance chart that locks the 1Y window. One click into the full /data page if you want to zoom or compare.
From an event to its sources
Where a story cites public releases, regulatory filings, or external news wires, those references appear at the foot of the article with explicit attribution. We don't bury sources.
From a data series back to coverage
Every data series page lists the recent news and chart-news that touch it. If you're reviewing US 10Y yield, the page collects the editorial coverage of US 10Y over the same window.
From a chart-news piece to the chart
Chart-news pages are not screenshots. The chart on a chart-news article is the live data, in the same renderer the data page uses — readers can read the values, not just look at an image.
From a chart to your own annotations
Every data series page opens into ChartStudio for signed-in users. Your drawings persist on the series — coming back tomorrow, the trend line is still where you left it.
From anything to your notebook
Articles, chart-news, data series, research columns all have bookmark buttons. Saved items land in Notes, where you can group, annotate, and build reading lists.
From a topic to a deeper review
Category chips, tag pages, and research-column pages let you continue from a single headline into a broader information path without losing context.
Page Templates
Consistent structure across thousands of pages.
Templates exist so that readers always know where to look. The byline appears in the same place; sources sit at the foot of the article; the related-series chart hangs below the body. Consistency reduces the cost of skimming.
- Market-news article
- Headline, byline (with named editor surfaced in structured data), published date, key-points TL;DR block, article body, bottom-line takeaway, inline glance-charts for matched data series, related stories sidebar (auto- derived from tag overlap), source citations.
- Chart-news article
- Headline, byline, live chart (locked range), supporting body sections, timeline of related events, related chart-news and market-news auto-linked via the underlying data series.
- Data series page
- Series metadata (frequency, region, taxonomy), latest value with one-period change, full interactive ChartStudio surface, CSV export, related editorial coverage. Anonymous users see the chart; signed-in users get persistent drawings.
- Research column
- Theme description, follow button, ordered list of pieces in the column. Designed to read as a sequence rather than a feed.
- Notes pages
- Personal workspace surfaces. List view, folder organisation, full Markdown editor with chart embeds, reading lists with ordered sequence.
Operating Principles
Structure should reduce ambiguity, not add decoration.
Clear paths
Navigation should help readers continue their review, not force extra clicks. Related content is rendered inline where the reader needs it, not hidden behind tabs.
Consistent naming
Categories, tags, series codes, and author slugs use stable identifiers across surfaces. A "US 10Y" reference on a chart page is the same entity as on a news article.
Traceable context
Readers should be able to see how information is related across events, data, and editorial — and from there, to public sources where applicable.
Reusable templates
Templates support scale without weakening clarity. We do not improvise article layouts for individual pieces; consistency is part of the trust signal.
Reader-owned workspace
Notes, chart drawings, bookmarks, reading lists, and follow lists belong to the reader. They are stored against the user account, never published, never inferred from to drive recommendation systems.
No decorative complexity
Pages add structure only where structure serves the reader. We do not spread one article across five scroll pages, do not insert auto-play video, do not run interstitial ads, and do not redesign the page based on who is reading.
Related institutional pages
About FinNotes for mission and editorial responsibility. Editorial standards for sourcing, AI policy, and accuracy commitments. API platform for programmatic access (currently invite-only). Corrections for the public correction record.