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Keep the idea.
Find the connection.

Linked notes for learning. Your reading and your thinking, side by side.

For iPad and Apple silicon Mac. In beta.

A PDF is imported and becomes a new board. A video and another PDF join the board. A PowerPoint is imported and opened in its reader, then Home shows the connected sources. The file sidebar stays visible.
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PDF · EPUB · Markdown · DOCX · HTML · PPTX · Typst · YouTube

Turn highlights into cards.

A paper is open beside the board. Two sentences are highlighted in turn, and each highlight becomes its own linked card on the board.

Go from a card to its source.

Three highlight cards sit on a board. Double tapping them moves between the matching passages in two research papers and a video transcript.

Write, sketch, and move ideas.

A handwritten thought takes shape beside a highlight card. A shape frames the thought, an arrow connects it to the card, and the ideas move on the board.

Put it in your own words.

Markdown notes. Links to what you’ve read.

A Markdown note links two ideas as they are typed, then a sentence is highlighted and a thought is written in the margin.

Take notes from a talk.

A video plays beside its transcript. Tapping a line jumps to that moment; highlighting a passage adds a card to the board.

Papers: Ruby et al. (2013) and Ruby et al. (2017), adapted under CC BY 4.0.

Video: What would happen if you didn’t sleep?, Claudia Aguirre, TED-Ed.

why Prodigus

A notes app designed for learning, not just storing notes.

I wanted to learn effectively, so I spent the time to learn how to learn. I realized that effective learners don't memorize line-by-line, but rather by connecting ideas, finding parallels, and encoding their knowledge.

... but I couldn’t find a notes app that supported the way I wanted to learn, so I started building Prodigus.

It’s early, and it’s already helped me more than anything else.

I'd love you to join on my journey :)

— Max, and Gus

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Bring what you’re learning.

For iPad and Apple silicon Mac.

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