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WHY WE MADE ANNOTE
Reading should be engaging
Most of us read the way we were taught in school: eyes forward, hands still, quietly absorbing. The page talks, we listen. But the readers we admire never read that way. Their books are full of arguments in the margins like this one : underlines, questions, objections, connections. They talked back.
In How to Take Smart Notes, Sönke Ahrens explains why that matters: understanding doesn't come from collecting other people's words, it comes from answering them with your own. A highlight is a fleeting thought. A note in your own words is the beginning of thinking. Linked to what you already know, it becomes something new entirely.
That's the belief Annote is built on. Reading shouldn't be a one-way broadcast. It should be a two-way conversation. yes! talk back to what you read. see #zettelkasten and how to take smart notes| Highlight what strikes you, answer it in your own words, connect it to everything else you've read. Your notes stop being a graveyard of forgotten quotes and start being a second mind that thinks with you.
FEATURES
Everything a great notebook needs
Simple yet powerful tools to capture, connect, and create with your ideas.
Read & Annotate
Highlight and annotate anything on the web. Select a sentence, press A, and talk back in your own words. Your notes stay right where you made them, and in your library.
Connect Ideas
Every note is a card, and any card can link to any other. Type [[double brackets]] or drag one card onto another, and watch a knowledge graph grow out of your reading.
AI-Assisted
Anni reads alongside you: ask her to summarize, write, or explain across your notes and articles, and she'll suggest connections you didn't see. Accept the good ones, wave off the rest.
HOW IT WORKS
From capture to creation
in four simple steps
Annotate
Highlight passages and jot notes while you browse. Like writing in the margins.
Connect
Build a knowledge graph by linking related notes. See the bigger picture.
Create
Write and create from your connected notes. Turn ideas into something real.
Your notebook awaits
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