Gather
Highlight a passage anywhere on the web and it arrives on today’s page with its source attached. Nothing gets lost between reading and remembering.
Write it down once. Find it forever.
Understory turns scattered notes into one connected manuscript you will actually reread.
Today’s page, kept the way journals always were.
Each morning opens a dated entry. Quotes, sketches and half thoughts accumulate there, then weave backward into every related note you have ever kept.
- Entries per day
- Dozens
- Kept privately
- Always
The practice
Gloss
Write a line of your own beneath each capture. Two sentences in your own words teach you whether you understood it at all.
Weave
Link an entry to an older one whenever they speak to each other. Over a year these threads become a map of how your thinking actually moves.
Recall that reads your mind
Search understands paraphrase. Type “that essay about walking” and the actual note surfaces, however you titled it.
Clipping, done properly
Articles arrive cleaned of ads and saved as readable text, source link intact.
Handwriting, transcribed
Photograph a notebook page and the ink becomes searchable text alongside the scan.
“It is the first app that treats my notes as a body of work rather than a pile of files.”
Start the manuscript of your own attention.
Free while your library is small. Bring notes from any other app when you are ready.
Begin your first note