Save insights from anywhere you learn
Your note-taking system is not as helpful as you think.
You only retain a fraction of what you read, watch or listen to...
- Traditional notebooks and wikis are unfriendly and often go unread.
- Systems like Zettelkasten help some but it’s challenging to set up and do well.
- Brainnote makes starting your second brain quick and easy.
Save Your Best Thinking
Expand Your Creativity
Supercharge Your Output
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Add media to your library by linking what you read, listen, or watch
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Take quick notes in the margins of your new media notebooks
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Highlight and capture the best insights to add to your second brain
Margin Notes
Quickly capture the information that stands out to you on a source in long form, knowing that extracting your individual insights is as easy as select and click.
“Atomic” Insights
Extract single idea “atomic” notes or self-contained thoughts from your notes or from the source, that can be used inside and outside their original contexts.
Topics & Tagging
See themes of interest emerge over time of writing and connecting, and easily review your media, insights and question through a focused topical lens.
Relationships
Inter-note relationships allow you to consider how different ideas strengthen, weaken, and add nuance to each other for deeper critical thinking.
Smart Notebooks
Smart Link parsing understands if a source is from Kindle, Audible, Youtube, etc. and will auto sort content for easy.
Tag Inheritance
Info added to notebooks will automatically inherit the tags of the notebook reducing the work involved in categorizing your insights.
Collaboration
Build and share personal or company brains and collaborate on ideas collected by your whole team.
Quick Search
Easily search your own brain to recall insights, questions, and notebooks whenever you need them.
Uploads
Upload Video, audio, e-pub, documents and more.
What is a Second Brain?
A second brain is a way of capturing and organizing your ideas so they are easily retrievable later. It goes beyond typical linear notetaking and allows ideas to be self contained and connected.
What is the Zettelkasten method?
The Zettelkasten method, pioneered by Niklas Luhmann and from which Brainnote take some of its key principles, extracts single complete thoughts onto index cards (a “zettel”) and store those in theme based boxes (“kasten”) to retrieve and connect later to other thoughts.
What is an “atomic” note or insight?
Atomic notes or insights are single self-contained thoughts ” that can exist outside the linear constraints of their source. They are much quicker to find and review later. (a.k.a permanent notes, quick-notes, smart notes, zettels, takeaways)
Does Brainnote™ have a Mobile App?
Not yet, but we plan to release our mobile beta shortly after our web beta is over. Beta members can comment, suggest, and vote on our upcoming roadmap priorities.
Can I import from other note taking systems?
Currently there is no direct import, but it is on the roadmap to make this process more direct. Brainnote members can get starting with gathering new knowledge, and import their backlog of notes as soon as this is ready. Future imports will treat other notebooks as “margin notes” so Brainnote users can take advantage of the deeper media link features.
