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Every idea
is a station.

Loam is a second brain that maps your notes like a transit system. Each note is a stop, each subject is a line, and the places where lines cross are where your best thinking happens.

Start mapping — it's freeHow transfers work ↓
A transit map of one person's notesFour colored lines, Reading, Writing, Projects, and People, each with stations named after notes. Where lines cross, notes from two subjects meet.Attention residueDeep Work, ch. 2FlowSpaced repetitionMemory palaceDraft: essay on focusOutlineThesis statementTitle ideasPublishQ4 roadmapFocus app pitchWeekly reviewShip itSam, 1:1 notesMentor callAdvice from AnaBook clubCompoundingArgument mapZettelkastenReading listParkinson's law
RReadingWWritingPProjectsOPeopleMap not to scale

RWPThree stops to a working system

  1. R

    Capture anywhere

    Clip a paragraph, forward an email, or type a line on your phone. It lands as a stop on the right line, with the source attached.

  2. W

    Link as you write

    Type [[ and Loam suggests stops you've already made. Every link runs both ways, so the older note learns about the newer one.

  3. P

    Resurface at the transfer

    When two lines cross, Loam shows you: the book you read last spring is relevant to the project you're shipping now.

The good ideas happen at transfers.

Folders keep your reading and your work in separate buildings. Loam puts them on one map, so a note you took from a book and a note you took in a meeting can share a stop.

Below: a real transfer. One line of reading, one line of projects, one interchange where they turned out to be the same idea.

ReadingParkinson's law

Work expands to fill the time available. The deadline is the scope.

ProjectsQ4 roadmap

Six weeks scoped. Ship the small version first, then decide.

Transfer: Parkinson's law

Service information

  • Plain-text filesEvery note is a Markdown file in a folder you own.
  • BacklinksA note knows who cites it. Nothing is a dead end.
  • Semantic searchFind it by meaning when you've forgotten the words.
  • Daily noteOne open page a day for the fleeting stuff.
  • Encrypted syncSame map on every device. Only your devices can read it.
  • Mac, iPhone, webFull service on all platforms. No express-only stops.

Your notes already connect. Start drawing the map.

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