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.
Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…
Reflect
A beautifully minimalist note-taking app designed to mirror the way you think. Now with a native AI integration.
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
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.
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.
Agenda - Notes meets Calendar
Organize your days with Agenda, the Apple Design Award winning note taking app. Download for free and start getting things done today!
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
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?...
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.
Craft — Productivity App for Notes, Tasks, and Docs
A free notes and productivity app that follows you across all your devices. Premium features available.
Tiles Notebook | Note Taking Tool With AI Agents
A notebook that makes working with AI agents easier.
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.
Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.
Note taking apps
Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
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Wiki (by Boris) — Semble
self-hostable notion replacements (by Tyler Lawson) — Semble
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