How Pickmix turns scattered notes into a living knowledge graph
We built Pickmix because the best ideas don't arrive in neat folders. Here's the thinking behind our capture-first, connect-later approach — and what it means for how you learn.
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Stories, ideas, and updates
Building a real-time tagging pipeline with edge functions
How we moved AI tagging from a background job to a sub-200ms inline operation — and what we learned about latency budgets along the way.
Designing for flow: why we removed the sidebar
Sidebars feel productive. But they fragment attention. Here's the research and the tradeoffs behind Pickmix's single-surface layout.
Spaced repetition without the flashcard grind
Classic SRS tools ask you to sit down and study. Pickmix surfaces the right memory at the right moment — inside your normal workflow.
How we handle PDF extraction at scale
PDFs are the worst format on the internet. Here's our approach to turning them into clean, searchable, AI-ready text without losing structure.
The cursor grid: building ambient interactivity
A small canvas animation that responds to your cursor. Why we built it, how it works, and what it says about the kind of product we want Pickmix to feel like.