A second brain, on paper
Remember everything you've ever thought.
Synapse is a quiet notebook for the things you read, notice and decide. It remembers so you don't have to, and it hands ideas back when they're useful.
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Tuesday, 7 October
On slow reading
Most of what I learned this year came from rereading, not from reading new things.
Attention is the scarce resource; memory is the one we can actually build.
This connects to my notes on commonplace books and the argument in Deep Work.
01
Capture
Forward emails, clip pages, dictate voice memos. Everything lands in one inbox you never have to sort.
02
Connect
Synapse suggests links as you write, so an idea from March finds the idea you're having in October.
03
Resurface
Each morning, a handful of old notes return, chosen for what you're working on right now.
“I stopped rereading my own notes because I'd forgotten I had them. Now they find me, usually at the exact moment I needed them.”
Early reader
Graduate researcher, Edinburgh