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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move

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

Michael Tsai - Blog - Alan Kay on the iPhone
If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That’s the simple long and the short of it.

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.
Emily Dickinson’s Apple Computer House | Spike Art Magazine
The 19th-century poet, whose verse still resonates with its open-ended sense of how language produces meaning, is a model for a group of Brooklyn coders inventing a more humane computer.

Tiles Notebook | Note Taking Tool With AI Agents
A notebook that makes working with AI agents easier.
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.


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

Supernote - Go Paperless with Our Digital Note-Taking Solution
Supernote is a modern E-Ink tablet and digital notebook designed for handwriting, note-taking, and sketching. Shop Supernote online today.

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?...

Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad
An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.

Daring Fireball, by John Gruber
Commentary on Apple, technology, design, politics, and more.
