Answers

Plain answers to questions people ask about their notes. Each one is meant to be useful whether or not you ever use Digital Notebook.

• Private, local-first notes app: what it should actually do (a checklist)
  Six questions that tell you whether a notes app is really private: where notes live, who holds the key, what the AI sends, and what the company can still see.
• LinkedIn saved posts: where they go, and how to actually find them again
  Where to find your saved posts on LinkedIn, why the list stops being useful, and how to keep the posts worth keeping somewhere you can search.
• Can't find a note you know you wrote? Why search fails, and what to try
  Why note search misses things you know are there, quick checks for Notion, Apple Notes, Evernote and Obsidian, and how to stop depending on remembering the right word.
• How to save emails and newsletters into your notes, and find them later
  The ways to get an email or newsletter out of your inbox and into your notes, what each costs you, and how to make sure it comes back when it matters.
• How to remember what you read (when memorising isn't the point)
  Most advice is about memorising. For most reading you don't need to recall it on demand; you need it back when it becomes relevant. How to set that up.
• Why you keep rewriting ideas you already wrote down — and how to stop
  You start writing and it feels familiar, because you've written it before. Why search and tagging don't fix that, and what does: bringing old passages to where you write.