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Anything worth reading up on

Knowledge Base is for the things you want to understand properly. A few ways people use it.

Studying

A course, an essay, an exam

Put the reading list in one notebook: the PDFs, the lecture recordings on YouTube, the articles your tutor mentioned.

Then ask it to explain the part you did not follow, compare what two authors say, or test you on a chapter. Every answer points back to the page it came from, which is exactly what an essay needs.

A person curled up in an armchair reading, with pages and a video drifting into the notebook on their lap.

Deciding

A big decision, weighed properly

Buying a car, choosing a school, moving house, changing career. Save the reviews, the reports and the forum threads as you find them.

Ask what the sources agree on and where they differ. Knowledge Base points out the disagreements for you, so you see both sides before you choose.

Sheets of paper pinned to a wall and joined by threads, with a question mark between two of them.

Understanding

A question you keep coming back to

A health condition in the family, how sleep works, why the garden keeps flooding. Start with what you have and ask for research to fill the gaps.

For scientific questions it can search published papers and only cite the ones it actually found, so you can read the originals. It is a way into the evidence, not a replacement for a professional’s advice.

A magnifying glass over a stack of journal papers with bookmark tabs.

More ideas

One notebook each

  • 01Plan a trip from guidebooks, blogs and travel videos
  • 02Prepare for an interview from the company’s reports and news
  • 03Keep up with a subject you care about, one notebook per topic
  • 04Research your family history from records and articles
  • 05Learn a new hobby from tutorials and how-to videos
  • 06Gather everything for a renovation: quotes, guides, regulations
  • 07Read up before a meeting and arrive with good questions
  • 08Turn a pile of saved links into something you actually know

On your phone

Save things the moment you find them

Knowledge Base works in your phone’s browser, and you can add it to your home screen like an app. On Android you can then share a link from any app straight into a notebook, so the article you spotted on the bus is there when you sit down to read.

A hand holding a phone, with a link flying as a paper aeroplane into an open notebook.

Try it

Start with one question

Pick the thing you most want to understand, and give it a notebook.

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