The Slow Burn
Greg WheelerHow to think deeply and find patterns in your own mind — through the practice of keeping a digital commonplace book.
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95% of My Ideas Start Right Here
My most valuable creative tool isn’t an app, a notebook, or even AI.
It’s a one-hour walk.
Ninety-five percent of my ideas for the day come from those sixty minutes — not because I’m trying to think harder, but because I’m walking slower...
I've Been Storing Ideas in a Tool I Never Open
Every few days, I do a very responsible thing. I open Obsidian, drop in a thinking session from Ember, and close it again. Neat. Tidy. Very PKM of me.
And then I never go back.
I don’t search it. I don’t browse it. I don’t stumble across...
How to Build a "Thinking Lab" instead of a "Note Library"
You have to forget everything you think about how to organize your notes. Folders are fine for tax documents, but they’re a dumb way to organize ideas. Your job isn’t to arrange everything into neat categories—it’s to create meaningful co...
How One Quote and One Skate Park Observation Turned into a World of Ideas
Chapters
0:00 Why Ember is different from ChatGPT or Claude
0:31 What a thinking session actually looks like
0:51 How today's spark shows up on the homepage
1:20 The thinking session as conversation with your commonplace book
2:...
What My Digital Commonplace Book Said to Me on a Walk
Chapters:
0:00 What if your quotes could talk back?
0:52 Ember overview — thinking sessions vs. notes
1:35 The Sparks library — your digital commonplace book
2:43 Session walkthrough: Never Leave Home Without a Teachable Spirit...
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