Andy's evergreen notes
Andy has built a career considering the impact of note-taking and ways to maximise it as a way to gain deeper insights and develop general knowledge. This notes microsite is one of their related […]
Archives
Note-taking apps don't make us smarter
A surface-level look at the world of note-taking apps, what the impact of "AI" may be, and why the much-lauded benefits of these tools never really seem to materialise. Ironically, I found the […]
A brief history of the digital garden
Maggie's writing is always fantastic, and their thoughts on digital gardens are always worth reading. The history here is nothing new to me personally, but does present it in an ideal manner. I also […]
The variations of the commonplace book
An interesting overview of the history of note-taking, specifically as it relates to the concept of a commonplace book and the myriad related forms, including the most recent idea of a […]
Bookmarking for power users
Memex is an interesting looking tool for bookmarking, with more than a feel of second-brain to it. Saving for future organisation binges […]
Digital garden seedlings
Whilst falling down the rabbit-hole of digital gardening I found some of Maggie's tweets incredibly insightful and useful, yet somehow totally missed her own digital garden (and her entire related […]
Annotate the web
A neat little tool that can allow you to annotate a web page, comment on annotations, and then save/share/export that information. Spotted in an IndieWebCamp show-off session where one user has […]
The Isle of Grain & Oare Marshes
For our second outing we wanted to really "stretch our wings" and get far out of the city. At the same time, what with the heatwave, getting to the coast felt like a good idea. Of course, we […]
Pine.blog
Pine is an interesting tool for curating information. It acts as a feed reader, importing content from RSS, Atom, mf2 etc. That means you can subscribe to Tumblogs, YouTube channels, subreddit feeds […]
Elephant in the room
Memory augmentation has always interested me. I'm envious of those that never forget a name or can quote verbatim. Like Mark Llobrera, I've started using technology to never […]