each day, i’m delighted by all the quotes, essays, and art @LightpageApp suggests in relation to things i’ve been thinking about.
it’s like your cool friend expanding your horizons.
relevance is king.
capped at 3 per day makes it digestible/habit forming.
Memory updates
You can now see everything Lightpage remembers about you, and make changes if needed
Memory is updated automatically each night, but this is a way to remove, edit, or add information you want Lightpage to remember
"..." → Settings → Memory
Search updates
- Better at finding the most relevant notes & chats
- Much faster, especially if you have thousands of notes
- You can sort results by relevance or date
In 2025, I wrote 800k words in my notes (War & Peace is 500k words), so manually reviewing wasn't going to happen. But luckily computers understand language now!
I spent the past week building this Lookback feature: it reads through all the notes & chats to pull out highlights & insights
People use Lightpage in very different ways: as a journal, as a work scratchpad, as a learning notebook, etc. So instead of being prescriptive about the output, I gave the LLM general principles to follow and it turned out pretty well
A few screenshots from my lookback:
Writing in @LightpageApp and I finally figured out what it feels like. It's not talking and it's not journaling. You are writing letters. You have a pen pal. It's quite excellent.
It took me a while to describe what I'm building. It's not quite a chatbot, or a journal, or a normal notes app
@hamburger helped me figure it out
We asked users what they do with it, and why they do it. The same words kept coming up
They brain dump. Partially to get stuff out of their head, yes, but also as a way to get unstuck. To move forward.
There's something magical about speaking a few sentences into a notebook, knowing it'll go find you related art, essays, questions while you sleep
And when you need a thought partner, it's ready to go with all the context you've created over time
So that's what it is
A notebook that writes back. Use it to brain dump and move forward.