A note on the iPad
ignore the code: The Failure of the iPad
Two days ago, ZDNet published this article: Meet the iPad, your work computer: These 10 apps make real productivity possible. These kinds of articles, where writers explain how they use their iPads productively, musicians talk about how the iPad is truly a professional tool, or painters show how they use the iPad for professional illustrations, are published regularly. There's probably a new one every week.
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.
PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
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.
Andy Gao on Twitter / X
I built a voice controlled computer-use for my mac using @typesafeai's Jev and it's INSANE how fast it is! I can dictate "open the notes app and create..." and the app opens before I even finish my sentence. pic.twitter.com/n3B7GizUWQ— Andy Gao (@instantricecook) September 18, 2026
Skeets - a 3rd party iOS / iPad OS client for Bluesky
Skeets - a 3rd party iOS / iPad OS client for Bluesky
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.
Against Usefulness
In a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program.
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.
