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Commonplace
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Notes that find each other.

Write a note and forget it. Commonplace threads it into everything else you know, then brings it back.

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The graph is not the point. The return is.

BACKLINKS

Every note knows what points at it

Mention another note and the link lands on both sides. Reading one note becomes reading the neighborhood around it, which is where the thinking actually lives.

RECALL

Search by meaning

Type the idea as you remember it, not the words you used. Half-formed is plenty.

RESURFACE

Old notes come back on their own

While you write, related notes surface in the margin. Your best thinking stops expiring.

A note written in 2019 should be able to walk into the room in 2027 and introduce itself. That is the job.

Ana Sofía CamposScience writer, Mexico City
“I stopped doing the archaeology dig through my own notes. The connections were already there when I came back.”

Give your thinking a memory.

Free for personal libraries. Your notes stay plain files, yours to keep.

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CommonplaceA second brain, drawn as a graph© 2026