Capture
Get it out of your head now. Sort it out later, or never.
- A quick-capture shortcut, from any app
- A web clipper for articles and pages
- The share sheet on your phone
- Voice memos, transcribed for you
Keep all your ideas, quotes, half-thoughts and reading notes.
Capture anything, link it to everything else, and watch old notes come back right when you need them.
- Articles
- Voice memos
- Screenshots
- Book highlights
- PDFs
- Web pages
- Quotes
- Daily notes
In Kept they land in one place and find each other.
Saved quote
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” Linus Pauling
Voice memo, 11:42pm
What if chapter 3 opens at the harbour instead of the flat?
Clipped article
Testing yourself beats rereading for anything you want to remember next month.
Screenshot
Fishing boats at dawn. Colours for the chapter 3 opening.
Essay idea
Why do we underline books we never open again?
Lecture notes
Week 7: memory is rebuilt every time you recall it, not replayed.
What happens after you hit save.
Link
Type [[ to link any note to another.
Every note lists its backlinks on its own, and the graph shows how your ideas connect. Links do the organising, so filing is optional.
Resurface
Start writing and older notes on the same idea come back on their own.
You are writing
Plan for exam week: fewer rereads, more practice questions...
Related
Testing beats rereading
Clipped last autumn
Week 7: memory is rebuilt
Lecture notes, 5 months ago
Ask
Ask in plain words. The answer comes from your notes, with sources.
Answers come from your own notes, with every source cited.
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Public health researcher
Free until you want it everywhere.
Free
$0
For as long as you like.
- Unlimited notes
- One device, plus the web app
- Links, backlinks and the graph
- Daily notes and highlights
Pro
$8a month, billed yearly
For when your notes need to follow you from laptop to phone and back.
- Sync across all your devices
- Ask your notes, with citations
- Version history
- Everything in Free
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Don’t lose the next good one.
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