I agree with this and my assessment is that notes have to be reader/user-friendly (even if the only user is you), and that requires giving a shit, and we barely know how to teach ourselves to give a shit, let alone automate it or outsource it to a tool

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…

Double processing information for notes : Garden of Learning by Juhis

As I read discussions about note-taking and learning, I often run into complaints about how much time and effort it takes to make and maintain notes and how people wish they could end ...

Notes Against Note-Taking Systems

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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move

Note-taking: A Research Roundup | Cult of Pedagogy

A summary of 8 best practices in note-taking, straight from the research.

Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.

Insurance for your mind.

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.

Reflect

A beautifully minimalist note-taking app designed to mirror the way you think. Now with a native AI integration.

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.

Notes

uncurated thoughts & updates

Why do we take notes?

I recently saw a fellow note taker ponder if, in a world with LLMs, it’s still worth taking notes. My answer is a definite yes but let me explain why.

Building what customers need, not just what they ask for - Linear

Notes from our product team on building the tools we use every day.

Zenkit Hypernotes - Experience a new way of collaborative writing.

Easy to start, easy to expand, easy to understand – for you and for your team.

cybersemics/em

A beautiful, minimalistic note-taking app for personal sensemaking.

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.