diff --git a/schemas/note.schema.json b/schemas/note.schema.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0611cdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schemas/note.schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+cd ~/mindnet
+mkdir -p schemas
+cat > schemas/note.schema.json << 'JSON'
+{
+  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
+  "title": "mindnet_note",
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["note_id", "title", "type", "status", "created", "path"],
+  "properties": {
+    "note_id": { "type": "string" },
+    "title":   { "type": "string" },
+    "type":    { "type": "string" },
+    "status":  { "type": "string" },
+    "created": { "type": "string" },
+    "updated": { "type": "string" },
+    "tags":       { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "area":       { "type": "string" },
+    "project":    { "type": "string" },
+    "priority":   { "type": "number" },
+    "effort_min": { "type": "number" },
+    "due":        { "type": "string" },
+    "people":     { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "aliases":    { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "references": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "depends_on": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "assigned_to":{ "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "lang":       { "type": "string" },
+    "path":       { "type": "string" },
+    "hash_fulltext": { "type": "string" }
+  },
+  "additionalProperties": true
+}
+JSON