Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed

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 methodologies actually give to researchers and the broader world? Has there been a meaningful increase of wisdom since these became popular? I went to look for an answer.

Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...