Use Cases

The best note-taking system depends on what you do. Compare approaches for engineers, designers, writers, lawyers, founders, researchers, teachers, and ADHD brains.

How academic researchers organize literature reviews, annotate papers, track experimental data, develop arguments, and manage multi-year research projects.

How founders use notes for business model canvases, investor pitch prep, customer discovery, hiring plans, and rapid decision-making.

How people with ADHD and other neurodivergent thinking styles can use spatial and visual notetaking to work WITH their brain, not against it. Covers external memory, visual cues, low-friction capture, and flexible organization.

How lawyers and legal professionals organize case files, legal research, client meeting notes, and deposition prep.

How teachers use notes for lesson planning, curriculum mapping, student observation tracking, and professional development.

How fiction and non-fiction writers use notes for research, character development, plot tracking, revision, and world-building.

How designers capture inspiration, organize reference libraries, document design decisions, and maintain visual research archives.

How software engineers can use notes for debugging journals, architecture decision records, code snippet libraries, onboarding docs, and incident postmortems.