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Not for taking notes.
But for what will still matter in ten years.

An organized notebook for what's worth keeping, resurfaced regularly so it's never just filed away.

Fernsage

Your book

Parenting
Understanding tantrums
What to teach my kids
Recipes
My dumpling filling
My birthday cake recipe
Life lessons
Avoid self-pity
Reading
Books that changed me
Sentences worth keeping

Built for rereading, not hoarding

Hello there!

We all start with a good intention: I'll diligently take notes so that I can think and learn better. But our apps become graveyards of notes. We take notes, pile them up, and forget about them. Do you remember what you wrote last year?

I faced the same challenge for years. I switched among several notetaking apps but never felt my knowledge accumulating. I felt stupid. I invented Fernsage because I want to compound my knowledge. I want to take notes intentionally, organize them neatly, and reread them regularly. (You can read my public notes here.)

As you will see below, such a practice isn't new. In fact, it goes as far back as two thousand years ago. Fernsage is a modern software for this timeless practice. And it being a software means it can also do wonderful things like resurface old notes and even email them to you.

Fernsage is not just another notetaking app. It is built so that your notes actually become useful.

Curious? Give it a try.
Questions? Just drop me an email.

Alfred
Alfred Lua Alfred Lua, Founder, alfred@fernsage.com
Notes on a
Hands-On Life
Alfred Lua
Notes on a Hands-On Life
Open the book

Long before notetaking apps

Table of features

Organize notes with unlimited pages and subpages

Review notes in the app or in your inbox

Read safely, and edit deliberately

Find any page with a keystroke

Save every edit, up to 50 past versions of a page

Turn your book, or just one topic, into a real website

Download your whole book as Markdown, so nothing is locked in

One edition. Everything included.


$10/ month

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Ah, the curious one! If you want to become an early supporter and share your feedback, email me at alfred@fernsage.com for a lifetime 50% off.

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