







Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects. This is an unusual way to think about writing notes: Most people take only transient notes .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } . That’s because these practices aren’t about writing notes; they’re about effectively developing insight: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } . When done well, these notes can be quite valuable: Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } .
Evergreen note-writing helps insight accumulate
Much of the day-to-day thinking involved in creative work is simply lost, like sand castles in the tide. Ephemerality can actually be useful in low-fidelity thought, but it’s simply an accidental property in many cases. We should do our serious thinking in the form of Evergreen notes .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } so that the thinking accumulates.
People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
Many bloggers and “life-hackers” have made a full-time job of suggesting how you should organize your journal, or how you should most effectively Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } . We should take this advice seriously insofar as those practices have helped the authors achieve meaningful creative work: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); }
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.
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
An open source note-taking frontend to extend and customize. Bring your own backend or configure a built-in backend to get started.

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…

Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Page 4: POW+TREE Writing Strategy
As Ms. Lin reflects on the trouble her students are having with writing, she realizes that many of her students need help incorporating the four elements of the writing process (i.e., planning, organizing, writing, and editing and revising) into their essays. She concludes that they need a guide or strategy to follow as they write.[.....]
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?...

Using Leaflet and Obsidian/Quartz together - Yer's Notes
Synchronising my Quartz-hosted notes and Atmosphere blogs

Textoshop: Interactions Inspired by Drawing Software to Facilitate Text Editing
Sense of abundance
Expansive, curious, open, unfearful, unhurried. The opposite of Scarcity mindset .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } .
Curvenote Scientific Content Management System
A web-first experience that brings science and data to the surface. Enhance comprehension and maximize impact and reach of your research using rich metadata and interactive figures.
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
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Wiki (by Boris) — Semble
self-hostable notion replacements (by Tyler Lawson) — Semble

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