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A lot of Gravity started with a simple capture-first habit, including Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review method.
Record every thought
By Tristan Manchester · 2026-01-28
Most productivity advice says to filter ruthlessly. But filtering at capture time is premature optimization. You don't know what the signal is yet.
Why most note-taking apps don't work for ADHD
By Tristan Manchester · 2026-01-19
Why traditional notes apps fail ADHD brains, and how a capture-review-rescue workflow removes the executive function tax.
Interstitial journaling: the simple field notes system that changed how I understand myself
By Tristan Manchester · 2026-01-16
Interstitial journaling is quick, timestamped notes between tasks. Done for a day, it can reveal patterns in how you work, think, and feel.
Attention Is the Only Organization System That Works
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-12-23
Why attention beats folders and tags, and how Gravity's sinking mechanic turns daily review into a lightweight organization system you can actually sustain.
Your Brain Wasn't Built to Remember Everything
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-12-18
Why capturing thoughts is about freeing working memory, not building an archive, and how sinking turns forgetting into a feature.
The Psychology of Sinking: Why Forgetting Is a Feature
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-12-14
Forgetting isn't a bug in your brain. It's a filter. Learn why Gravity's sinking mechanic works with your attention patterns instead of fighting them.
Just Enough Structure (And No More)
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-12-03
How to create filtered views in Gravity using typing conventions, structure without the maintenance burden of tags or folders.
The Only Organization Gravity Needs
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-11-27
How prefixes create filtered views using nothing but text. No settings, no tag database, no feature to enable. Just type and search.
Prefixes: A Tiny System That Works
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-11-14
Typing todo: or read: gets you most of the value of tags with almost none of the overhead. A tiny system for filtering notes.
No, We're Not Adding Folders
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-10-29
Why obvious feature requests (folders, tags, links, API) would make Gravity worse. The limitations aren't gaps. They're the design.
Gravity's Missing Features Are the Product
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-10-23
Why note-taking apps keep adding features that make them worse, and the specific cognitive costs of folders, tags, and links.
What Gravity Isn't For (And Why That Might Be the Point)
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-10-13
Why most power features in note-taking apps create more problems than they solve, and what it means when the missing features are the design.
Why Your Notes App Is Backwards (And What Karpathy Does Instead)
By Tristan Manchester · 2025-09-17
Andrej Karpathy's note-taking method flips conventional wisdom. Learn the append-review-rescue system that inspired Gravity.