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Sam Claassen
Head of Growth at Reflect
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May Update: GPT-4o Added
Last week, OpenAI announced their new GPT-4o model. We’ve already added it to Reflect!
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The 5 Pillars of Note-taking
Reflect is based on 5 pillars of note-taking: 1. Frictionless 2. Append-only 3. Backlink entities 4. Associate with time and space 5. Include the why
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Note-taking templates you can copy
We are collecting a list of note-taking templates that you can copy and use in your own notes. Most of these note-taking templates can be copied and used in pretty much any note-taking app or tool.
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Note-taking App Comparison
This article compares note-taking apps that are similar to Reflect. This article will focus on personal note-taking apps, and ignore team collaboration features.