Marcus Aurelius
Wrote nightly notes to himself, never meant for anyone else to read. They survived as Meditations, one of the most widely read books in history.
Your book
Hello there!
We all start with a good intention: I'll diligently take notes so that I can think and learn better. But our apps become graveyards of notes. We take notes, pile them up, and forget about them. Do you remember what you wrote last year?
I faced the same challenge for years. I switched among several notetaking apps but never felt my knowledge accumulating. I felt stupid. I invented Fernsage because I want to compound my knowledge. I want to take notes intentionally, organize them neatly, and reread them regularly. (You can read my public notes here.)
As you will see below, such a practice isn't new. In fact, it goes as far back as two thousand years ago. Fernsage is a modern software for this timeless practice. And it being a software means it can also do wonderful things like resurface old notes and even email them to you.
Fernsage is not just another notetaking app. It is built so that your notes actually become useful.
Curious? Give it a try.
Questions? Just drop me an email.
Wrote nightly notes to himself, never meant for anyone else to read. They survived as Meditations, one of the most widely read books in history.
Filled notebook after notebook for decades, sketches and observations he kept returning to and connecting across projects.
Kept a commonplace book of maxims copied from his reading, then mined it for the essays that followed.
Kept journals his entire adult life, then indexed them himself so old entries could resurface into new essays and lectures.
Kept a diary for over twenty-five years, rereading old entries as part of how she thought, remembered, and worked.
Organize notes with unlimited pages and subpages
Review notes in the app or in your inbox
Read safely, and edit deliberately
Find any page with a keystroke
Save every edit, up to 50 past versions of a page
Turn your book, or just one topic, into a real website
Download your whole book as Markdown, so nothing is locked in