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Jillian Hess writes Noted, a personal blog at jillianhess.substack.com about writing, culture and history. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-23
  2. Eminem's Boxes of Notes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook” as a story · 146 points

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  2. Submitted Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations as a story · 18 points

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  3. Submitted Pablo Picasso's Stunning Repetitions as a story · 6 points

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  4. Submitted I Redesigned My Courses Around Notebooks as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted The paradox of failed resolutions as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Eminem's Boxes of Notes as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Eminem's Boxes of Notes as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Carl Linnaeus's note-taking innovations as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Julia Child's Culinary Notes as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted The Beatles' Collaborative Notes: 3 Ways to Write a Song as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted Guillermo Del Toro's Mystical Notes as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Jim Henson's Red Book as a story · 1 points

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