RamSync Now Supports Mermaid Charts: Swimmingly Cool
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RamSync Now Supports Mermaid Charts: Swimmingly Cool

What is better than mind mapping your notes and thoughts? Adding rich visuals based on markdown-ish text with Mermaid, of course! Who doesn’t want to add diagrams inside their mind map notes? Combining mind mapping and charts is sort of like a hybrid of a person and a fish, and the result is . ….

NaNoWriMo Time! Crafting Elegant Free-Flow with Structure: Is it Even Possible?

NaNoWriMo Time! Crafting Elegant Free-Flow with Structure: Is it Even Possible?

NaNoWriMo unites the writing community, and pits the so-called “pantsers” against the “planners.” Which method is best? Do you ever wish you could do both? Pantsers are ready, fingers limbered up and pencils sharpened, just counting down the hours to November for the words to flow forth. vs. Planners have already started crafting outlines, timelines,…

A Video Tutorial: Creating Your Digital Thought Garden (Zettelkasten)
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A Video Tutorial: Creating Your Digital Thought Garden (Zettelkasten)

RamSync helps build powerful second brains with automated mind maps and adds structure for collaborative knowledge management. We believe visualization component of note taking is often overlooked. As a result, we have built RamSync around interactive graphics and connected thoughts. We’ve created a video tour of RamSync to help you stay your own digital thought…

Collaborating with a Shared Zettelkasten, a new Paradigm for Success!
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Collaborating with a Shared Zettelkasten, a new Paradigm for Success!

The Zettelkasten’s power as a note system is undeniable. Collaborating jointly on smart notes or a knowledge management system is a new paradigm, one that is made possible by by technical advances, and now available to everyone with RamSync. Traditional physical systems just didn’t allow groups to effectively access and manage the notes. It’s still…

Staying Motivated to Study: Easily Build Your Success This Year!
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Staying Motivated to Study: Easily Build Your Success This Year!

Studying takes time, effort, and motivation. However, with the following 11 tips, you can stay motivated and study more effectively. Study smarter, so you can study harder. Ready for some study motivation? You’ve got this! 1: Keep it interesting Connect ideas to what you already know. It is much harder, and much less interesting to…

How to Succeed this School Year: The Hidden Curriculum of Successful Studying
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How to Succeed this School Year: The Hidden Curriculum of Successful Studying

Ready or not, a new school year is upon us. New challenges and more importantly, new opportunities await! We love learning new things, but sometimes with classes and life there is just too much to do, and it can all be a bit overwhelming. For Better Grades and Less Time Studying, A Note System is…

Lines and Edges for Better Mind Maps
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Lines and Edges for Better Mind Maps

A Zettelkasten with digitally connected notes is revolutionary: an ideal approached by many and yet achieved by only a few. Automatically transforming that Zettelkasten into a mind map? Well, that’s a new level only RamSync has unlocked! With nearly a dozen pre-built layouts, mind maps and knowledge graphs are a snap! Here we’ll take a…

Bookmarking Websites: The 1990s Called Saying “Time to Upgrade!”
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Bookmarking Websites: The 1990s Called Saying “Time to Upgrade!”

Bookmarking a website started out as a great idea, especially in the days pre-Google. Saving a source of information for later: the concept is sound. However, now bookmark lists in a browser read like a early-years AOL link list: outdated, difficult to search, and impossible to keep organized! This means bookmarks are often lost and…

Fonts for Efficiency: There’s a New Serif in Town
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Fonts for Efficiency: There’s a New Serif in Town

From ancient cave drawings to flashing billboards, humans love leaving their creative mark. Written communications, they’ve been the rage for the last thousand plus years or so. The trick though is effective communication, in all forms. In writing this means efficiency, clarity, and of course using the right font! Wait, what do fonts have to…

Foundation Notes:  Better Notes to Manage Your Knowledge Structures
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Foundation Notes: Better Notes to Manage Your Knowledge Structures

Everything starts as an idea. From the most humble napkin drawings of sliced bread to modern graph databases, it all started with an idea. Inspiration. A key concept. While ideas are the spark of change, the right fuel must exist for the fire to grow. If an idea is to ever evolve past a stained…

The Zettelkasten: Why It’s So Powerful, and Why You Need One!
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The Zettelkasten: Why It’s So Powerful, and Why You Need One!

Getting enough done every day is a challenge, even if days are getting longer by 1/75000 seconds every year, it’s not enough to help. We need another option. It’s time for a proven system, a time-tested method of increasing productivity, learning faster, and growing creativity. A process of collecting thoughts, organizing ideas, taking notes, and…