Philosophy
The Problem with Existing Note-Taking Systems
Capturing and organizing happen at the same time: Most tools ask you to decide where a note belongs (which folder, which tag, which database) while you're still writing it. But capturing and organizing are different cognitive tasks: one is about recording ideas and knowledge fast, the other is about stepping back and thinking about structure. Doing both at once means your writing is interrupted by structural decisions, or more often, the organizing simply gets skipped.
Organization is manual and tedious: As your collection of notes grows, deciding where each note belongs becomes overwhelming, because the system can't suggest placements based on your content and existing structure.
Organization fails at helping you quickly recall a domain: The organization enables indexing but never helps you quickly recall the ideas and knowledge of a domain or subdomain.
Creating connections is manual and tedious: You have to remember which notes are related and link them yourself. As your collection grows, the connections you don't think of remain hidden. They normally fail at automatically discovering links between notes.
Connections between notes never help you learn: Some tools let you link notes together, but the connections are more for visualization and navigation. They fail at helping learners travel through related notes to recall knowledge or get inspiration.
How Nouer Solves These Problems
Separate capture from organization: In Nouer, you write notes into a single inbox called the Queue without deciding where anything belongs. Organization happens later in a separate view (the Forest), when you are ready to think about structure.
AI suggests where notes belong: When you are ready to organize, AI analyzes your notes and your existing knowledge trees, then recommends placements for you. You review and confirm each suggestion instead of figuring it out from scratch.
Travel Mode for domain recall: The Forest provides a Travel Mode that walks you through every note in a tree or subtree sequentially. This turns your organized structure into a guided review path for quickly recalling a domain.
AI discovers connections for you: Link Discovery scans your notes and suggests relationships you may have missed. You can run it on a single note or across your entire collection in batch.
Travel through connections to learn and get inspirations: The Galaxy provides its own Travel Mode that lets you follow links between notes, traveling through related ideas to recall knowledge and find inspiration across domains.
The Learning Workflow in Nouer
Write: Open the editor and write your note. Press save. The note enters the Queue automatically.
Capture: The Queue holds all your unprocessed notes. You don't decide where anything belongs yet.
Organize: When you are ready, open the Forest and move notes from the Queue into knowledge trees. AI can suggest placements for you. A memory card is created automatically for each placed note.
Connect: Link related notes across trees. AI Link Discovery can scan your notes and suggest connections. The Galaxy visualizes all links as a graph.
Retain: Review due memory cards in Repetition. Rate your recall, and the system schedules the next review at the optimal interval.
Who Is Nouer For
Interdisciplinary learners who study across multiple fields and need to organize knowledge by domain, discover connections between disciplines, and retain what they learn.
Lifelong learners who read books, take courses, or explore new fields and want a system that helps them build and retain knowledge over time.
Researchers who collect ideas from many sources and need to organize them into domains, discover cross-domain connections, and revisit key insights regularly.