People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use

Evergreen notes

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.

Separate Writing and Formatting

How to get focused

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.

Sense of abundance

Expansive, curious, open, unfearful, unhurried. The opposite of Scarcity mindset .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } .

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

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

Hyperdraft

Turn your text notes into a website.

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?...

On Writing #3

Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.

Blogging Made Easy

Bring your Bluesky, Blacksky, or similar handle to start writing.

Mustard

A browser extension that lets you annotate any webpage with notes and share them with your Bluesky and/or GitHub followers.

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.