About Duly Noted

A microblog of encountered ideas worth remembering

About Duly Noted

This site merges three distinct concepts into one execution:

  1. Microblog
    First and foremost, this is a microblog - a collection of snippets I find across the interwebs.

  2. Personal Knowledge Management
    It is also my public personal knowledge management system. It’s more dynamic than republishing links on an RSS feed, and is loosely inspired by StumbleUpon and del.icio.us.

  3. Commonplace Book
    Finally, it’s a digital version of a commonplace book where I digitally “snip” articles and thoughts and include them here.

How It Works

I created a common-place-book API that allows me to send URLs I read, plus some personal commentary to an S3 bucket as JSON. I then process those JSON files into markdown files for this site.

Inspiration

I’ve created physical journals forever, why not a digital one? Ironically exploring this project with an LLM (Claude) taught me that I’m not alone in my desire to document the world around me.

This site especially borrows heavily from Simon Willison’s TIL and his collected quotations link blog posts.

A slightly self-involved concern I have is that I like to prove that I’ve read it.
— Simon Willison, 2024

Same, Simon, Same.

While building this project I found https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes, and https://notes.jim-nielsen.com which I find to be Chef’s Kiss. Ironically via Simon’s main blog. It truly is blog posts all the way down.