Linernotd

Linernotd: writing the notes for the music we love

Summary: how Linernotd — a social platform to rate, catalogue and write about albums — was born and grew, told from my role as partner and head of social media.

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I’m a partner in Linernotd, a project shared by three people, and I look after its social media. Linernotd comes from the same place almost everything I care about comes from: a passion for music and the urge to talk about it.

The idea: bringing back the album notes

For decades, records came with liner notes: the texts printed on the sleeve or in the booklet that told the story of a recording, who was playing, what the thing you were about to hear actually meant. With streaming, those notes all but disappeared. We listen to more music than ever, yet we often listen in passing, without context and without a place to record what it made us feel.

At the same time, the online conversation about music exists and is huge, but it is scattered: threads on social media, loose lists, opinions lost in an endless timeline. Linernotd starts from a simple idea: give that conversation a home. As we put it on the project’s own X account, the way to think about it is something like #musictwt condensed into a single website: a place to review and rate new releases, make lists and write about your favourite albums, sharing your notes in a real-time feed.

The name itself sums it up: every user can write their own liner notes. The app’s tagline puts it plainly: Rate, log and write liner notes for the albums you love.

What Linernotd offers

Linernotd describes itself as a social music platform: a place to discover new music, catalogue your collection and share your own notes. Today the platform lives on two fronts:

• linernotd.com, the main website, with the catalogue, discovery and the community side.
• linernotd.app, a web app you can install on your phone by adding it to your home screen, designed to rate, review and curate music from anywhere.

Inside, the project has grown in layers. There is an album catalogue, plus artists, genres and record labels to explore the database. There is a Discovery Hub to find music by mood, genre, era or place, and a visual discovery section to browse music through a more graphical interface. For those who live for new releases, there is a New Music section with what comes out each week, a release calendar, an Under Radar area focused on less obvious recommendations, and upcoming release pages where you can sign up and wait for an album.

The social side is the heart of the project: The Feed, where you can see what the community is listening to right now; ListHub, with lists created by users themselves; and the charts, with the albums, artists and rankings set by the community, including the 2026 year charts.

An archive built together

One of the things I like most about Linernotd is that it is not meant as a mere shop window, but as a living archive. Members can submit missing releases, correct data and help build the archive through Database Submissions. There is also a system of ranks and privileges — with levels such as Collector and Contributor — that recognises those who contribute the most.

The members section lets you find fans of any genre, mood or artist, and alongside them there are official accounts curated by genre, such as Linernotd Jazz, Linernotd Metal or Linernotd Rock, which act as entry points to each scene.

From open beta to official launch

Linernotd did not appear overnight. First came an open beta, announced from our X account, which let the first users in to try the platform and help us shape it. From there, new features kept arriving, and we shared those publicly too: the 2026 album lists and the upcoming release pages.

The next step was the official launch of linernotd.com, which we presented with reviews from our first pioneers: the people who believed in the project while it was still under construction and whose notes are, to a large extent, the foundations of the community.

My role: giving the project a voice on social media

Within the team, I’m responsible for social media. For a project like Linernotd, that means much more than posting: it is how the platform presents itself to the world and the main way people discover it.

My job is to translate what happens inside the platform into content that works outside it: announcing launches and new features, such as the open beta, the charts or the upcoming release pages; giving visibility to what the community writes; and building a recognisable identity for the brand.

It is a role that lets me combine two things I am passionate about, communication and music, and that constantly makes me think about how to speak to very different audiences: from the jazz fan to the metal fan, from the vinyl collector to the person who just wants to know what is coming out on Friday.

What’s next

Linernotd is a living, still young project. The foundations are in place: a broad catalogue, discovery tools, a community that reviews and curates, and an archive that grows with its members’ contributions. The goal now is to keep it growing, attract more people who want to write about the music they love, and establish Linernotd as the place where that conversation happens.

For me, it is the first major project in this portfolio and also a statement of intent: I want to build things with community, with identity and with something to say. And few things have as much to say as a good album.

Visit the project: linernotd.com · linernotd.app · @linernotd on X