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River Not a Bucket

Intro

COLLECT your thoughts, clippings, and anything else here.

MAKE PEACE with the idea that you'll never get to everything you put in here.

PICK what calls out to you and dive deeper.

Let the rest DRIFT PAST.

RESIST the urge to re-organise and delete things when you have "completed" them.

USE FOR things such as:

★ Ideas ★ Articles ★ Notes ★ Drawings ★ Drafts

COMBINE with my Commonplace Book template to curate what you care deeply about.

Basics

Adding Entries

To add a new note, click the + New Entry button on the main dashboard:

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Adding Topics

Use Topics to organise your notes. To create a new topic, simply click the + New Topic button from the Topics panel on the right-hand side of the dashboard:

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On mobile, the Topics panel will appear at the bottom of the page. If you have a lot of entries, it might be inconvenient to scroll all the way to the bottom.