# How can I make private, per-user notes?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172 "2019-09-11T21:49:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Nancywtech](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Nancywtech)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/1 "2019-09-11T21:49:05Z")
I am working on a conference app, based on one of the Glide templates, and would like to be able to have conference participants take notes and have those notes be private to each participant (as opposed to feeding to the spreadsheet or changing things for everyone). Is that possible?
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### Author:  [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/2 "2019-09-11T22:39:02Z")
You could make a notes tab in your spreadsheet, with a row owned by each attendee using the per-user data filtering. You’d need at least two columns: the user email, and the notes column.
Then display this as a tab in the app, with per-user filtering and the details layout. This will create a ‘Profile’ page for each user. Then just add a Notes or Text Entry component, and you will have private notes for each logged-in user.
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### Author:  [@TSam](https://community.glideapps.com/u/TSam)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/3 "2019-10-01T04:05:57Z")
@david: That essentially creates one note that the user can edit. However, what if I want to add a timestamp to the latest edit? Additionally, how can a user create multiple Notes items (like in the iOS Notes app)?
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### Author:  [@Brian\_Sankarsingh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Brian_Sankarsingh)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/4 "2019-10-02T18:34:20Z")
Excellent observation, I agree TSam - a timestamp or the option to choose which note belonged to which session on the conference agenda
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### Author:  [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/5 "2019-10-02T18:40:32Z")
You can filter a list of notes per user. You can use the Current Time special value to record when a note was last edited.
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### Author:  [@TSam](https://community.glideapps.com/u/TSam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/6 "2019-10-02T19:23:52Z")
@david, Special Values are not listed in the Components list for Notes. User filter works perfectly.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/7 "2019-10-02T20:19:37Z")
> [@TSam](#):
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> Special Values are not listed in the Components list for Notes.
Can you explain what you mean by this? A note is a component, so I don’t quite follow what you mean by a components list for notes. The concept I explain here, along with per data should give you what you want. The form button could be used to add notes, and edit mode in each existing note would allow for updates to the note.
> [@Help for displaying multiple calendar dates inside a component](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-for-displaying-multiple-calendar-dates-inside-a-component/800/8):
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> What I would do is to first create a form button. You can set up the form button to write the event and date to a new sheet. Next i would create a reference to link the event to the events on the new sheet. Then below the form button, I would create an inline list that uses the new reference and change the style to calendar.
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### Author:  [@TSam](https://community.glideapps.com/u/TSam)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/8 "2019-10-03T01:04:13Z")
Using the Form component is a nice workaround for the Notes component. What I meant earlier about special values is that when I follow @david‘s method using the Notes component, I do not see special values in the list of components since all I have on the sheet are the email column and the note column. If I add a form to the tab I might be able to do that.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/9 "2019-10-03T03:54:26Z")
I’m going to try to put all concepts into this one app. I’ve set up how I would handle notes. Since this is a public app, per user data is not applied, but in a real world situation, it would have per user data in place. Hopefully this gives you some ideas. Notes are tied to the user entering the note and the date updates whenever the not is added or edited. The link to the sheet is included in the app.
[https://concepts.glideapp.io](https://concepts.glideapp.io/)
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### Author:  [@TSam](https://community.glideapps.com/u/TSam)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/10 "2019-10-03T05:51:03Z")
@Jeff_Hager, that 's an excellent solution combining form and notes components. Greatly appreciate your time and effort. I was able to implement it following your example. THANK YOU!
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### Author:  [@gbigelowtutordoctor](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gbigelowtutordoctor)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/11 "2023-06-04T04:10:59Z")
Hi Guys
An old thread but I have a different application.
Building a custom CRM
I want to add notes to each client entry in the CRM. They will be timestamped and need multiple entries preferably in a tabular form.
Have added a Notes tab to sheet but user email is irrelevant except to identify who made the note i.e. don’t need to filter by this.
How would I link the notes to each client? Do I need to include a client ID that gets written to the Notes record perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-can-i-make-private-per-user-notes/172/12 "2023-06-04T04:40:56Z")
> [@gbigelowtutordoctor](#):
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> How would I link the notes to each client? Do I need to include a client ID that gets written to the Notes record perhaps?
Yes, that would be the way to do it.