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Capture
A single keystroke files away any passage, with its source intact.
A quiet place to think
Your mind deserves
better furniture.
Foliage is a second brain for people who still believe in sentences. Capture quotations, ideas, and fragments — then watch them converse across years.
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Connect
Foliage notices when a new note rhymes with something you wrote in 2019.
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Contemplate
A weekly letter of your own thinking, typeset and ready to reread.
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Create
Drafts assemble themselves from connected notes. You take the credit.
From a member’s notebook
Index cardsNo. 214
On slow reading
A page read three times outweighs a chapter skimmed once. Attention is the rarest ink.
Attention
No. 87
The commonplace book
For four centuries, thinkers copied passages by hand — not to store them, but to digest them.
History
No. 132
Links over folders
Ideas refuse to live in one place. A file system asks “where does this go?” A web asks “what is this near?”
Method
No. 301
Writing as thinking
We do not write what we think; we discover it mid-sentence. Notes are thought rehearsal.
Craft
No. 45
Forgetting, on purpose
A good system lets most notes sleep. What resurfaces earns its return.
Memory
No. 178
Small notes, long life
One idea per note. Atomic thoughts recombine; essays merely contain.
Method
“I have kept journals since I was fourteen. Foliage is the first thing that made them talk back.”
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