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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.

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…

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

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

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 ...

Notes Against Note-Taking Systems

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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.

“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.

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.

cybersemics/em

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

Re-balancing For You - For You notes

The Making of Community Notes—Asterisk

The team that built X’s Community Notes talks about their design process and the philosophy behind their approach to combatting false information on the platform.

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

RAG, Knowledge Packs and Your Notes

Ensu Packs and Your Notes help small models answer better with knowledge stored on your device.

Flashcards as Notes - Wesley's notes

Effortful reading habits and resisting the urge to defer attention

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs

Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try to abduct some insights out of the raw notes. To make the ideas easier for me to engage with, I ...