Kortex: A Review by a Creator

In my continuous quest for the perfect writing/PKMS (Personal Knowledge Management System) for authors, a new app has come to my attention: Kortex.

(Warning: this is a really long post.)

This is so new, they have a wait list of people who would like to give the software a try, although it’s ridiculously easy to by-pass that and get right on (I’ll tell you how later). The app hasn’t officially been released yet.

Kortex bills itself as a “second brain for creators”.

A “second brain” for those who don’t know (if you do, skip this paragraph), is a system for keeping all of your notes, research, links to websites, and anything else which you might need to reference at a later time. There are two benefits of keeping all this information in an app is: 1) so that you can create connections between ideas and pieces of information and; 2) to make information easy to find through either a regular search or tags. Some apps even have AI built into them so you can ask the AI a question you’re sure you’ve got the answer to somewhere within all of your notes.

[In my “second brain” I keep a list of all the characters who have shown up in my books, information on each of my books, and the research I need — both general historical research for my time period and book-specific research.]