Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

Notes Against Note-Taking Systems

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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 ...

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?...

What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?

As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and m…

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.

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

Smart Note Taking

Why is this important? Because without the smart, you’ll add more clutter to your system, leading to minor organization and more stress.

“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”

Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } . The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of journal should I use?”, “how can I make it easy to capture snippets of things I read?”, etc.

cybersemics/em

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

Notes on my Remarkable Tablet

Some notes on my note taking device

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.

Reflect

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

Vox on Twitter / X

stop just hoarding notes.you save more every week and find less every month. a thousand notes, none of them talking to each other. a better notes app won't fix that. nobody maintains the brain you built.Karpathy's 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶 fixes that: don't have AI search your notes,…— Vox (@Voxyz_ai) June 29, 2026

The Zettelkasten Method — LessWrong

Early this year, Conor White-Sullivan introduced me to the Zettelkasten method of note-taking. I would say that this significantly increased my resea…

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

My article critically examining Brennan Kenneth Brown’s Not-taking/PKM article. This was longer and more critical than intended.