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Is SuperNotes Super for Authors?

Meredith Bond
2 min readNov 24, 2024

I can hardly believe I am trying out yet another system for keeping track of my characters and my plot, and yet…

I recently heard of a relatively newcomer to the PKMS scene (that’s Personal Knowledge Management Systems, just to remind you). The developers were very sneaky and posted on a reddit group I’m in asking people to comment on the new on-boarding video he’d created. Of course, I watched it and liked everything he was going over.

SuperNotes (this is an affiliate link) is a card-based PKMS. You easily create cards by just staring to type. You can tag each card and set up bi-directional linking (meaning that when I link on card to another, I can link the second card back to the first).

I’ve worked with other card-based systems, but they usually don’t have linking at all (Mem, Google Keep are two examples). You just have random cards scattered over your screen. You can usually tag them, but that’s still not very well organized. In SuperNotes, there are not only a display of cards, but also a menu on the left side of the screen where you can put cards into folders for better organization.

One thing I’ve really missed with all of the PKMS I’ve tried is templates. I like being able to just click a template and create a card (or page) that is a duplicate of the template. I do this for my character cards. This is…

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Meredith Bond
Meredith Bond

Written by Meredith Bond

Award winning author, Meredith Bond's books straddle that beautiful line between historical romance and fantasy. Merry is also a writing coach and formatter.

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