NoteBar: An AI-Assisted Note-Taking System for Personal Knowledge Management

Abstract: Note-taking is a critical practice for capturing, organizing, and reflecting on information in both academic and professional settings. The recent success of LLMs has accelerated the development of AI-assisted tools, yet existing solutions often struggle with efficiency. We present NoteBar, an AI-assisted note-taking tool that leverages persona information and efficient LLMs to automatically organize notes into multiple categories and better support user workflows. To support research and evaluation in this space, we further introduce a novel persona-conditioned dataset of 3,173 notes and 8,494 annotated concepts across 16 MBTI personas, offering both diversity and semantic richness for downstream tasks. Finally, we demonstrate that NoteBar can be deployed in a practical and cost-effective manner, enabling interactive use without reliance on heavy infrastructure. Together, NoteBar and its accompanying dataset provide a scalable and extensible foundation for advancing AI-assisted personal knowledge management.