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:…
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.
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.
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
It's that time of the week again! Today, we're sharing Chalk, a document editor that shows how apps that need fine-grained permissioning can be built on spaces. Chalk is built on our last three releases!
Habitat's road to release: 04 Chalk
habitat.leaflet.pubbeen 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.ioGreat new-ish paper by @zephoria.bsky.social I have a few thoughts …
Note taking apps
Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
cybersemics/em
Wiki (by Boris) — Semble
self-hostable notion replacements (by Tyler Lawson) — Semble
v2 Editor
