My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.

That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs... See more

Ultimately, I suspect I will always want more from note-taking software than it gives me — because what I truly want is for the software to read my mind. I want it to extract my thoughts automatically (and securely!) and polish them until they resemble wisdom. And I want it to resurface my ideas at calculated intervals, helping me make new... See more

Notion is a philosophical descendent of HyperCard (turns out you can even buy a third-party HyperCard-themed Notion template) that offers extremely adaptable information structures built from an alphabet of ‘content blocks’. It’s also worth $10 billion and has 30 million users. I used it to create the first bidirectionally linked note-taking system... See more