Scroll your own ideas, not someone else's feed.

Anota is a web-based PDF reader with a notes column beside every page. Highlight a passage, tag it as an Insight, Inquiry, Action or General note, and every note stays linked to the exact spot it came from. Revisit every thought as a feed you'll actually want to scroll.

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✦ Insight

“Spaced repetition compounds over 21 days of consistent review.”

Schedule the re-read, not just the read.

linked to Make It Stick, p.87

? Inquiry

“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't wean yourself from distraction.”

Is the barrier technology, or environment design?

linked to Deep Work, p.23

→ Action

“Every habit has a two-minute version.”

Try the two-minute version tomorrow morning.

linked to Atomic Habits, p.163

✦ Insight

“Bodies outside the skull can genuinely extend our cognitive capacity.”

Notes are thinking, not storage.

linked to The Extended Mind, p.47

— General

“The map is not the territory.”

linked to Science and Sanity, p.58

? Inquiry

“Retrieval practice outperforms re-reading in every controlled comparison.”

Does this hold for concepts, or only facts?

linked to Make It Stick, p.44

✦ Insight

“Spaced repetition compounds over 21 days of consistent review.”

Schedule the re-read, not just the read.

linked to Make It Stick, p.87

? Inquiry

“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't wean yourself from distraction.”

Is the barrier technology, or environment design?

linked to Deep Work, p.23

→ Action

“Every habit has a two-minute version.”

Try the two-minute version tomorrow morning.

linked to Atomic Habits, p.163

✦ Insight

“Bodies outside the skull can genuinely extend our cognitive capacity.”

Notes are thinking, not storage.

linked to The Extended Mind, p.47

— General

“The map is not the territory.”

linked to Science and Sanity, p.58

? Inquiry

“Retrieval practice outperforms re-reading in every controlled comparison.”

Does this hold for concepts, or only facts?

linked to Make It Stick, p.44

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Select any passage and tag it in one gesture: Insight, Inquiry, Action, or General. Your highlights become structured knowledge, not just colour on a page.

✦ Insight? Inquiry→ Action— General

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Anota reader: a page of Walden with three tagged highlights, and the matching notes in a column beside it

Every highlight keeps a thread to its note.Walden, ch. II, read in Anota

Deep Workp. 23

? Inquiry

“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean yourself from a dependence on distraction.”

Is the real barrier to deep work technological, or is it a failure of environment design?

Deep Work, p.23, linked highlight

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Every note lives next to the passage that sparked it. No more switching windows — your reading and your thinking happen in the same breath.

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Scroll your own ideas, not someone else's feed.

Mark what matters.

Think alongside the page.

Read deeply. Think clearly.

Mark what
matters.

Think alongside
the page.

Read deeply.
Think clearly.