Saving an article, highlighting a passage, dropping a PDF into a folder — none of it
means you've taken the argument in. These acts give a false sense of progress:
pseudo-productivity.
Write down what you save in your own words, and learn it.
A long essay on digital minimalism
newyorker.com · Link
Added 8 months ago. Never opened.
Kettlebell basics — 40 min
Saved · #workout
Saved a year ago. No note of your own.
Sourdough bread · first attempt
Recipe · 5 h 20 min
Added two winters ago. Never baked.
Canvas
You don't have to remember everything.
Open a board for each subject and drop onto it everything you want to keep in view.
Notes, to-dos, checklists, images, quotes, habits, pomodoro, shopping lists, expenses,
important dates, tables — twenty-one card types, all on the same canvas,
wherever you want them.
Share a board with a friend — as a copy, or to work on it together.
Total freedom on the canvas, strict discipline in the collections.
Groceries 2
Olive oil
?Milk ran out
✓Coffee 12 days
Empty ○ not bought · Question ? ran out · Filled ✓ in stock
Checklist
Camping bag
✓Mat
Torch
✓Stove
Power bank
Coming up
12
days left · 4 September · Flight
Who owes whom
Sam → Alex240.00
Maya → Alex85.50
You don't add it up; the card appears on its own.
Habits
First, you build your habits.
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
John Dryden
Track your habits. Don't break the chain.
weekly · default
Morning walk
MTWTFSS
✓
✓
·
✓
✓
◆ 4-day streak · 71% this month
monthly · variant
Read a book
MTWTFSS
◆ 21-day streak · 78% this month
Green. You did it that day.
Red. The day passed and wasn't marked.
Ringed. Today — it doesn't say anything yet.
Empty. You have no record for it.
Collections
The end of the saved-posts graveyard.
Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
Library
Zorba
Library
Severance
Series
Whiplash
Films
K
Kettlebell programme
Saved · #workout
Roasted root vegetables
45 min · 2 servings · Recipes
412 kcalP 9C 54F 18
olive oil, carrots probably at home · based on your shopping lists
Tavern✓
Yakup 2
Beyoğlu · Places
Been there. Again when artichokes are in season.
Are your social media accounts full of books to read and shows to watch? Dozens of
recipes waiting to be cooked? Don't leave your saves to rot there — keep them all in
panonu.
Drop a book card on any board and the record lands in your Library in the background.
“Which folder should this note go in?” never comes up. There are seven collections, and
the last one has no type at all: Saved.
Less, on purpose
Not every note is worth keeping.
Today's recordSaved
Breathing rhythm on long runs
sitting here for 3 weeks
The note that really matters is the line you write next to a record in your own words —
and it's also the easiest step to skip.
There's no number in the box. “47 records in the pool” would turn this screen into a
debt notice. No “left to go”, either. If the pool is empty, the box doesn't appear at all.
Serendipity
Keep a record of what you've done.
From the past
A Guide to the Good Life
Read
“What you hold in your hand is what will one day be taken from it.”
Up next
Severance
To watch
Season 2 · 9 episodes
Added 4 months ago.
A quote being there is proof you've already read the book — so quotes only show up in
the “from the past” box, and take their cover from the book they came from.
