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Dev diaries, release notes, and field reports from building iXnote.

• Field Notes

  How to use AI to study and actually remember

  Do your AI-enhanced study tools make you pay attention?

  AI can hand you a folder that looks like a term's work from a lecture you never watched. The single test I use to judge any study tool, and why iXnote leaves the thinking with you.

  5 July 2026
• Release Notes

  iXnote 2.2

  Sharper context, the graph on iPhone, and import

  iXnote 2.2: FollowAlong reads your context more accurately, the full graph comes to iPhone, and Pro can import from Obsidian, XMind, OPML and CSV.

  21 June 2026
• Dev Diary

  WWDC 2026

  What Apple just announced for its on-device models

  Apple put a 20-billion-parameter model on the iPhone at WWDC 2026. A dev diary on how the sparse architecture works, what it might fix, and what I want to test.

  15 June 2026
• Release Notes

  iXnote 2.1

  Introduces the FollowAlong feature

  iXnote 2.1 introduces FollowAlong, your assistant in meetings: it surfaces the right context live as people talk. Plus a native Mac app, transcript export, and faster sync.

  14 June 2026
• Dev Diary

  Testing Apple's LLM

  What surprised me when I ran real meetings through the rig

  I built the rig, then ran real meetings through Apple's on-device model. The honest results, including the one failure I'd have bet money on and got wrong.

  1 June 2026
• Dev Diary

  Responsible LLM Use

  Starts with a good test rig

  Before trusting a keynote, I built a rig to test Apple's on-device model. A dev diary on the test harness, and why responsible AI integration starts there.

  16 May 2026
• Field Notes

  Capture less, remember more

  The case for taking the fewest notes you can

  I take the fewest notes I can on purpose. The memory science behind why minimal, hand-made notes stick better than any full transcript.

  1 May 2026
• Field Notes

  The notes you didn't ask for

  How connected cards space your memory for you

  The most useful thing iXnote shows me is something I didn't go looking for. How connected cards quietly do spaced repetition for you.

  8 May 2026
• Field Notes

  Connection is encoding

  Every link you make is a memory you're building

  When I make a card, I link it. The research on elaborative encoding, and why every honest connection is a memory you're building.

  16 May 2026