Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
About these notes
Hi! I’m Andy Matuschak. You’ve stumbled upon my working notes. They’re kind of strange, so some context might help.
Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…
Notes from the 2026 NorCal Mentor Conference
Hi! I took notes at the 2026 NorCal Mentor Conference for all of the sessions I attended and turned them into a blog post. I compiled the notes for all the sessions into a single set of takeaways across 6 broad categories. Sharing here so that others can benefit: And Now For Something Completely Different: FRC Mentorship Daniel
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.
An untitled post from Mar 2011
Posted on Thursday 17 Mar 2011. 1,130 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.
PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
Martin Eden by Jack London
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Claude and Paper - Peter Van Dijck's homepage
I've always done a lot of engineering work on paper, figuring out relationships, page layouts, models, UX etc.
Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2] - Cosmik Labs
On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience
been curating some notes on things that keep coming up as i dig around in atproto | mcp | zig | orchestration rabbit holes code is in tangled.org/zzstoatzz.io/notes if you're in the same rabbit holes and want to add or fix anything
notes
notes.zzstoatzz.ioNote taking apps
Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more
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
