Why We Called It Pilcrow
If you have spent any time in a word processor with formatting marks switched on, you will have seen it: a small, curling symbol that looks something like a backwards P with…
Install Pilcrow so you stop hunting for the tab
I lose tabs. Not the app itself, just the browser tab, buried in a row of thirty others that all look the same until I squint at the favicons. If Pilcrow is…
Dealing with diagnosis
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Nobody knew about ADHD. I hated school because it didn’t interest me. Nobody engaged me, they just labelled me. Lazy; impatient; does not pay…
What are Laundry Piles?
Piles in Pilcrow aren’t a filing system. A pile of laundry on a chair isn’t sorted by owner or category, it’s just the stuff that’s currently relevant, pulled together because you’re dealing…
Why did I build Pilcrow?
I’ve always struggled with a curious balance of fact retention. There are many subjects that I have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of, yet there’s a growing backlog of a million things I’ve…
Notes and links and lists, oh my!
Everything that you store in Pilcrow is a snippet. Currently there are four types of snippet in Pilcrow: the note, the list, the link, and the image. Notes A note snippet is…