A calmer desktop for serious note-taking.
This direction frames Commonplace as the place where active work happens: source notes on one side, the working note in the middle, and linked ideas nearby when you need them.
Tuesday workspace
Designing a note system that gets reused
The harder part is not capture. It is making yesterday's notes useful next month.
Keep sources beside the working draft, pull in older notes as references, and leave short summaries for the next pass.
Collect
Save from browser, phone, or desktop without choosing the perfect destination first.
Work
Build project notes from smaller fragments instead of rewriting the same material from scratch.
Review
Revisit old notes through linked references and recent edits, not by drilling through folders.