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We make a better more collaborative app that centers on really simple notes as the core thing. You can jot some Knotes but you can also share them natively like slack and put lots of content from other services into them. Knotable.com

Feedback welcome. Still beta

But the Chrome extension is 1.0 and doing really well!

Knotable.com/chrome/note

This is pretty fun and interesting. there is something great about the up/down mechanic on many leading sites. I wonder if there is a way to distill down just that mechanic -- Qu is close!

Fair enough. Can't really sync without some kind of log in. But I guess you want to just use it in offline mode...?

We've been tinkering with a big powerful shared notepad platform for a while. This is our first piece that's really ready and nice.

Simple, stylish new tab screen that lets you type notes from the place where your ADD strikes worst: in the browser

- from the makers, Knotable

Hey! Very true. Give a shout and say hello over at Knotable.com or to me a at knote dot com

I guess it matters equally though that the "four that seemed to register as important to him" were all hand-crafted

The guy is a legend to learn from over and and over

He namechecks this great older post on PR and conferences and how to launch: http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/09/15.html

Worth a re-look for every startup founder

The shortest possible version is: launch is important

Drugs 'train your brain' and we have many techniques for training our brains now that seem to actually work -- now under names like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and meditation and brain games. This stuff used to go under names like hypnosis or mindreading.

It's amazingly underused and it's great to see modernizing approaches to the "command line" to the brain.

That's a bummer. These guys are among the really innovative and thoughtful folks working on making email stuff work better.

I guess it takes skills @dannyrohit

I have tried to replace the set on an ipod touch in the past. Didn't succeed. Screwed up taking the face/body assembly apart.

Agree about caution

Not sure those folks are quacks

But this is indeed a very promising field with powerful technology

- co-founder with five other neuroscientists of this company --> HaloNeuro.com --> drop us a line and get involved in our clinical trials if you are interested in this topic around SF or NY

If this happens my respect for apple falls

This is big VCs and big scientists getting involved what you have previously only heard about in DIY forums...

This is real.

It is why airplanes are such great places to concentrate and work.

Also lower light and fewer people "induce the zone" better too.

Never let them fly business class

Part of the job is keeping the wrong people out. That's how to keep them out. Http://a.sarva.co explains why

@Kima testimonial -- these guys took a look at my recent venture very fast, very authoritative, read the docs and sent the money, and have been completely hands-off. Kima is not a startup school for "teach me" founders. It is a the model of a quick-decisions seed fund. In my case they followed a co-investor who they knew well. "He's in? We're in. Done." People say this but I rarely see it.

As for what else they add -- I'll find out next week in Paris at their summit next to Le Web. I suspect the 100s of CEOs they have backed and big european network will be things I value. They are relevant for the company I'm building.

I think the Kima pitch has a lot in common with the PG worldview -- founders want fast decisions, money, network. Maybe they want a school or maybe they can run a school; founders vary.

I've thought this for a while also - the big messaging apps like Whatsapp and Line and Kakao and WeChat are SO BIG and growing so fast already.

More reason to think they might "beat" Facebook is that a) many are already owned by Internet giants, i.e., have tons of resources to drive growth. WeChat is owned by Tencent/QQ and Line by South Korea's Naver. And b) they are Asia-centric where Facebook is weaker. Maybe these "international" players end up beating Facebook on its home turf.