3/10
Each note is stored as a signed Nostr event wrapped in a small object that points back at the one before it. Your notes form a chain.
The useful part is that those links are real, not just references. Pick up the last link and the whole chain comes up with it. Ask for the newest note and you get the entire history, no index to fetch, nothing to keep in sync.
Same trick is why your whole history exports as a single file you can back up and re-import anywhere.
Graham O'Nero
npub1xh…23s4p
2026-08-08 20:25:09 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…w6sw
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npub1xhfclgh0klylfvdlyzjd9n0dwvd32tkcwxs24jwhydrjvhymgtvql23s4pPublished at
2026-08-08 20:25:09 UTCEvent JSON
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