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Attention Is the Only Organization System That Works
2025-12-23
Every note-taking system is trying to solve the same problem: how do you find the right note at the right time?
Your Brain Wasn't Built to Remember Everything
2025-12-18
Your working memory holds about 4 items at a time. Not 7, as the old research claimed—more recent studies put the number closer to 4, plus or minus 1.
The Psychology of Sinking: Why Forgetting Is a Feature
2025-12-14
Most productivity tools fight forgetting. Reminders, notifications, pinned items, starred messages—the assumption is that forgetting is the enemy. If something slips your mind, ...
Prefixes: A Tiny System That Works
2025-11-14
Gravity has no tags. I've written about why—tags create taxonomies, taxonomies require maintenance, maintenance becomes the job instead of the thinking.
Gravity's Missing Features Are the Product
2025-10-23
Someone recently asked me why Gravity doesn't have folders.
What Gravity Isn't For (And Why That Might Be the Point)
2025-10-13
Gravity doesn't have folders. It doesn't have tags. There's no plugin ecosystem, no bidirectional links, no knowledge graph visualization, no daily notes template, no Zettelkast...
Why Your Notes App Is Backwards (And What Karpathy Does Instead)
2025-09-17
Most note-taking apps ask the same question: *where does this go?*