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![]() ![]() Basically, you need to decide what kind of inputs you have (do you read books, and articles, watch videos, listen to podcasts and do you take notes on the content you consume?) and what kind of outputs you expect from your notes (do you want to generate ideas for blog posts, videos, or projects?). Ultimately, it is much easier than you think to come up with a note-taking and knowledge management system. Watching the presenter walking through the whole system, I got reminded that most of us probably spend way too much time figuring out what the perfect system could be, how it could look like, and how everything should be connected since I also find myself way too often get lost in videos and articles about yet another note-taking system. The specific design and experience decisions Supernotes took, were all based on the idea to create a tool that focuses on the atomic note-taking flow. ![]() You can probably resemble a workflow like that in any other note-taking tool, but in Obsidian for example, you will always be greeted by long, empty, new file, that somehow feels off, if you are only writing short and atomic notes. While you are processing an article, you can quickly create new notecards for a new thought or idea the article or a specific section of the article has guided you to. This gives you the perfect setting to create atomic notes. You can create a parent card (which is basically your file or document), but within that card, all the notes you take are again notecards. Supernotes instead, uses notecards as the only input source. This lead to the fact when you are taking notes on an article for example, that all your notes and informational bits become part of one file or document. It was clearly visible that a tool like Supernotes is the perfect companion for atomic note-taking.Īpps like Obsidian, Craft, Logseq, and others kind of force you into taking long notes, since they are based on a document or file approach. The presenter was using a slightly adapted and customized Zettelkasten system, which means all notes were atomic notes. While the presenter walked the audience through the single parts of the system, I got reminded that the most powerful and effective strategies are often the most simple and straightforward ones. The tool of choice the presenter was using to manage notes for meetings, articles, books, talks, and videos was Supernotes. Last week I got the chance to join a call with the VP of Engineering of a European Bank, showcasing a unique and powerful note-taking and knowledge management system. It is infinitely better than using Apple Mail to connect to your Google account since it uses the Gmail API, and it integrates perfectly with the OS thanks to being written in Swift.This issue of Creativerly is brought to you by Meco, the best new app for newsletter reading. In short, if you use Gmail and happen to own a Mac, you have absolutely no reason not to grab Mimestream. It is written in Swift, making it much more resource-friendly and fast, in addition to integrating perfectly with macOS and supporting a wide range of keyboard shortcuts for managing your mails. There are no such issues with Mimestream. You've probably used an Electron app before, and it's difficult not to notice how sluggish most of them are, while also not integrating well with the OS, and sometimes even looking out of place. For instance, you cannot snooze emails, but given everything else that the app can do, this is a very minor issue. Of course, not all Google Mail features are available using Gmail's API. Your aliases are also synced automatically, as are your signatures, and you can take full advantage of Gmail's labeling system. With Mimestream, you get all of this functionality and a lot more. ![]() Without it, my Inbox is flooded with promotional and social-media-related messages that I'm very much not interested in. Whenever I try to manage my Google Mail account with anything other than Gmail, the one thing I miss the most is email categorization. Most of the well-known Gmail features on your desktop ![]() It's also worth noting that the app is written in Swift, so it will integrate very well with macOS and provide a much smoother experience than, for instance, an Electron-based app. Mimestream goes about it differently - it uses the Gmail API, allowing it to provide most, though not quite all, of the features you are familiar with from Google's mail client. Email clients that support Gmail aren't exactly rare, but the vast majority of them use the IMAP protocol to retrieve and manage your messages, which means they can't take advantage of Gmail-specific features such as inbox categorization, labels, and synchronized signatures. ![]()
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