A desk that never closes.
Stack your notes like index cards on a library desk. Steno keeps the pile sorted, searchable, and always within reach — 3 a.m. included.
idea
the pitch deck should read like a garden, not a pipeline
reading
Seeing Like a State, ch. 2 — “legibility” explains why dashboards lie
errands
- book the plumber
- ask Mia about Iceland
- return the Scott book (don’t lose it)
didn’t want to lose this
charts should be read, not decoded
Two drawers, and no folders.
Everything goes in the catch-all on the way in. The morning page brings back what your notes think deserves a second look.
The catch‑all
The morning page
- ✓the Iceland note, because August is close
- ✓last week’s garden idea, quoted in two new notes
- •the dashboard passage you keep rereading
- •one old someday note, at random
Catch it in one keystroke
⌥Space opens over any window. Type the fragment, hit Enter, forget about it — Steno kept it.
Notes thread themselves
Quotes, names, and ideas that rhyme get stitched together — you approve each thread, nothing moves without you.
Ask, don’t hunt
“that book about dashboards lying” brings the note back, with the two that quoted it.
“It feels like packing a bag, not filing a report.”— Theo Lindqvist, graduate student, on his third month
Pull up a chair.
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