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 not done that will never get done because I forgot about them within seconds of agreeing to do them.
I need a lot of notes and stickies around me to remember things, on envelopes, cards, and in notebooks. These notes are piled up in ways that make them significant to me. But I’ve never found a digital notebook that worked for me for more than a few months. I had an on/off abusive relationship with OneNote, Evernote came and went. Obsidian felt like the right thing with its graph, but the overhead of managing was too much for me. Lots of nice pens and physical notebooks were always my fallback.
But I’ve always wanted that digital experience. Something that matches my pile-based logic. And so I started to think about how that would look and feel. Pilcrow is the result of that thinking.
I built Pilcrow for myself, but when I started showing it to people, they liked it, too. And if it works for me, it might work for others. So I made it a real product.
I have over 30 years in the enterprise IT space, so any app I build has to be robust and secure. Everything’s encrypted at rest. There’s a whole load of integration possibilities, and you can get your data out at any time—instantly. No lock-in. Sign in with Apple, Google, or Microsoft. Core Pilcrow is always free, and you get 30 days of Pro for free when you sign up.
I hope you’ll take a look. Let me know what you think.