Anota
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Scroll your own ideas, not someone else's feed.

Anota turns reading into a feed of your own thinking — highlight a passage, tag the thought, and revisit what you've read long after the book is closed.

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✦ Insight

Spaced repetition compounds over 21 days of consistent review.

Schedule the re-read, not just the read.

linked to Make It Stick · p.87
? Inquiry

Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't wean yourself from distraction.

Is the barrier technology, or environment design?

linked to Deep Work · p.23
→ Action

Every habit has a two-minute version.

Try the two-minute version tomorrow morning.

linked to Atomic Habits · p.163
✦ Insight

Bodies outside the skull can genuinely extend our cognitive capacity.

Notes are thinking, not storage.

linked to The Extended Mind · p.47
— General

The map is not the territory.

linked to Science and Sanity · p.58
? Inquiry

Retrieval practice outperforms re-reading in every controlled comparison.

Does this hold for concepts, or only facts?

linked to Make It Stick · p.44
✦ Insight

Spaced repetition compounds over 21 days of consistent review.

Schedule the re-read, not just the read.

linked to Make It Stick · p.87
? Inquiry

Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't wean yourself from distraction.

Is the barrier technology, or environment design?

linked to Deep Work · p.23
→ Action

Every habit has a two-minute version.

Try the two-minute version tomorrow morning.

linked to Atomic Habits · p.163
✦ Insight

Bodies outside the skull can genuinely extend our cognitive capacity.

Notes are thinking, not storage.

linked to The Extended Mind · p.47
— General

The map is not the territory.

linked to Science and Sanity · p.58
? Inquiry

Retrieval practice outperforms re-reading in every controlled comparison.

Does this hold for concepts, or only facts?

linked to Make It Stick · p.44
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Mark what
matters.

Select any passage and tag it in one gesture — Insight, Inquiry, Action, or General. Your highlights become structured knowledge, not just colour on a page.

✦ Insight? Inquiry→ Action— General
The Extended Mindp. 47
✦ Insight? Inquiry→ Action— General
✦ Insight

Bodies outside the skull can genuinely extend our cognitive capacity.

The Extended Mind · p.47 · Reference
Deep Workp. 23
? Inquiry
“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean yourself from a dependence on distraction.”

Is the real barrier to deep work technological, or is it a failure of environment design?

Deep Work · p.23 · linked highlight
02

Think alongside
the page.

Every note lives next to the passage that sparked it. No more switching windows — your reading and your thinking happen in the same breath.

Linked notes · rich text · always in context
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