#notetaking

Efficient and Writer-Friendly Index Card Tools

If you’re like me, juggling ideas, research, and drafts can get messy fast. That’s where index cards come in handy. They help you organize…

Why Every Productivity Book Tells You the Same Thing.

You’ve probably had this happen before. An idea will show up at 11 pm, half-formed but just good enough that you know you’ll want it…

Think in Claims, Not Summaries

Your summaries feel like progress. Your first draft knows better.

Messy Margins

A book with no marks on it was never read. It was collected.

Why Synthesis, Not Retrieval, Is the Hard Problem

What building Ovandor taught us about turning captured information into evidence-backed, revisable knowledge.

NoteGen: The Open Source Note Taking App That Turns Scattered Thoughts Into Structured Knowledge

A Markdown first, AI powered workspace built for capturing ideas today and organizing them tomorrow

🧭 Why I Stopped Organizing Notes and Started Making Knowledge Work

Let me be honest: I like note-taking apps.

Cluely’s $150 Pricing Inspired Me to Build an Alternative

A few months ago, I noticed that Cluely had moved one of its most talked-about features — undetectability — into a separate plan priced at…

Your AI Has Amnesia Because Your Notes Are Not Working Memory

You do not need another productivity system. You need a simple way to turn notes, decisions, and project history into context AI can…

🧠 Why Does So Little Remain After We Learn?

Why can’t we solve the problem? Why do the results never quite come?

My Perfect Productivity System Was Procrastination

I always thought productivity apps were there to fill something I was missing, desperately missing.

Context Engineering Is Too Technical. Start With Your Notes Instead.

You do not need to become an AI engineer. You need a simple way to turn notes, decisions, and project history into working memory for AI.

Why NewTwos?

The next version of Twos, rebuilt from the ground up with AI

Why University Notes Are Broken (and What Should Replace Them)

Why traditional note-taking fails and how learning systems need to evolve

PKM Weekly — 2026–07–05

A look at the latest Personal Knowledge Management PKM news from the past week.

What poisoning a RAG store taught us about agent memory

Most of the “AI memory” conversation is about getting things in: chunking, embeddings, which vector database, how to compress a long chat…

The Half of Every Idea You’ve Been Throwing Away

Picture the moment right before you hit “save.” An article makes a point, a podcast drops a stat, a friend says something sharp over…

Using Craft Docs as a Digital Bullet Journal

Building a low-maintenance productivity system by applying Bullet Journal concepts in Craft.

Open Source Research — Note taking

My first post in this series on Open Source research tools showed my notebook. I like making notes in long hand and it often helps me…

Why I stopped chasing new note-taking apps

It always starts with the same sentence.

One Apple Note Runs My Whole Life. Here’s Exactly How to Build It.

A pinned Home Base in Apple Notes, set up in about fifteen minutes, with no new app and no subscription.

My Logseq Daily Journal Workflow

A look into how I use Logseq as a second brain to keep track of my life

4 Ways the iPad Mini Replaced Every Notebook on My Desk

After a year of treating it like a second Kindle, I finally figured out what the iPad Mini is actually for — and it retired my paper…

AI Will Not Replace Second Brain Apps. But It Will Change Them Significantly. Here’s How.

Every time AI gets better at something, someone writes the obituary for the whole category.

How I Read Research Papers Faster Than the Three-Pass Method (Without Missing The Important Stuff)

Nobody teaches you how to read a research paper. They hand you a stack of them and expect you to figure it out. Most researchers do figure…

7 Random But Interesting Ideas I’ve Found Recently

#1. — How to choose which project to start next

We built a privacy-focused vector memory mobile app. And here is what it can do for you.

On sovereignty, minimalism, and the architecture of thinking.

100% Obsidian, 0% Mouse

How I have my entire knowledge base at my fingertips — literally

Every Notes App Is a Different Kind of Knife

Most people compare note-taking apps by looking at feature lists.

I Ranked the 6 Best AI Note-Takers: the Hidden alternatives…

Automating the tedious task of meeting transcription and note-taking is a critical productivity milestone. However, many “free plans”…

The Planning Trap in Note-Taking: Why Your System Fails Before You Write a Single Note

The planning trap is what happens when you mistake designing a note-taking system for using one. You spend your energy building the…

Why I Deleted 1,084 Apple Notes

Sometimes, productivity isn’t about accumulating more information—it’s about letting go of what no longer serves you.

EXAM STRESS: Tips and Tricks On How to Cope and Survive During Exam Season

Written by Nishaan Fillis Edited by Haneen

8 Apps That Give You a Karpathy-Style LLM Knowledge Base in 2026

Andrej Karpathy posted something in April 2026 that I haven’t stopped thinking about.

I’ve Used Obsidian for Years. This Second Brain App Does It Better.

I’ve built my entire workflow around Obsidian. I’ve written about it on this publication more times than I can count. I’ve defended it in…

How to Read a Research Paper Without Reading It Twice

The systematic approach serious researchers use to read more papers in less time, and take notes that are actually worth keeping.

Making Highlights Actionable in Obsidian

A Guide to Markdown Annotations and the Sidebar Highlights Plugin

“I’ve Switched PKM Tools Four Times in Two Years. Am I About to Do It Again?”

Here’s an uncomfortable admission for someone who writes about productivity systems for a living: since I last wrote about Capacities, I’ve…

Zotero Tag Recommender: An AI Plugin for Automatically Suggesting Tags for Your Papers

Two core features: 1. AI-Powered Tag Suggestions; 2. Multi-Word Tag Autocompletion

The Art of Taking Notes

How To Effectively Take Notes That Not Only Boost Your Memory But Also Make Others Worth Reading

Why I Stopped Using the PARA Method

Organizing my notes became a chore that it led me to evaluate my system.

Notebooks

For years I’ve tried to have a digital-only note system, but it’s difficult. It’s easy to have an organized archive for quick-reference in…

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The Obsidian Bible: For Product Managers, And The Rest Of Your Life

A practical, step-by-step system for using Obsidian as your single home for notes, book highlights, ideas, to-dos, and product work, across…

The Best AI Note Takers That are Actually Useful

AI note takers have become a commodity. Not these ones though.

From Notion to Obsidian to something else!

How my search for the perfect second brain led me back to Git — and to Tolaria.

A Lightweight Readwise Alternative for Importing and Reviewing Your Highlights

I have a simple problem: I highlight a lot, but I do not review enough.

Your Best Thinking Happens Before You Start Writing

A simple voice-to-document workflow using Vesper and Claude that changed how I capture and use my thinking.

25 Ways That I’m Using TK

Why Environment Matters More Than Willpower — And How Zettelkasten Enforces It

You don’t have a discipline problem. You have an architecture problem.