What's the point of a note-taking app?
The true purpose of a note-taking app is to facilitate deep learning through three interconnected processes—externalizing ideas, internalizing them into new insights, and resurfacing them over time—and good design should minimize accidental friction while preserving the productive friction that enables genuine understanding.
What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?
As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and m…
Reflect
A beautifully minimalist note-taking app designed to mirror the way you think. Now with a native AI integration.
Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...
The Best Note-Taking Apps
We recently polled readers with suggestions for the best note-taking apps. Most of you said you still do things the old-fashioned way with pen and p
Best Notes App - Write and Organize with UpNote
UpNote is a clean and beautiful app for writing and organizing notes. It’s easy to use with rich features and delightful experience. Available on Mac, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux.
Notesnook | Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app
Express yourself with freedom, no spying, no tracking — only private notes. Unlike Evernote and other note apps, your data is private — not open for everyone to see.
disnet/flint-note
Flint is a note-taking app that helps you capture ideas, connect them together, and make them part of how you think.
How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow
Let’s imagine how you would use Evernote if you had a brain
Collection
Updated 3mo
Instead of assuming a PKM / notes app is a given, let's look at the purpose and process of note-making.
Note taking apps
Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more
What is Semble?
A collection of various explanations of this very “app”
OmniCanvas - Free Infinite Canvas Notes App
Best Notes App - Write and Organize with UpNote
Antinote — a $5 scratchpad for macOS
NotePlan – Notes, Tasks and Calendar in One Daily Note
Let your thoughts sink in — Gravity
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble
This is really exciting to see! I think some magical things can happen when we "free" our links from static pages and let them intermingle…
Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1] - Cosmik Labs
taurean (@taurean.bryant.land)
connections collecting things of a "theme" and making connections
Lego Brick Commons & Spontaneous Collaboration - Wesley's notes
I think about semble as the infrastructure for social bookmarking and explorations of the collective sensemaking that emerges on top of it.