Taking notes while reading, watching, or listening to content is hugely beneficial to learning. Whether it is during reading, watching, or listening, actively jotting down notes serves as a powerful cognitive tool. It helps keep you engaged and make sense of the content as you go.

Mindstone is designed for contextual note taking. Why? Notes are most effective when they're brief, on topic, and kept together with the original source. By taking notes directly within your resource, it's easier to stay on topic and keep your commentary organized. Mindstone notes helps you capture your critical thoughts alongside the insights you discover in your content.

To view any notes you've taken, simply open the original resource.

Notes on Mindstone are private. If you start a discussion to learn from other perspectives, try Comments.

You can create a note for any highlight you've made in a piece of content when in the Viewer.

You can create a note by selecting a portion of text in your piece of content while in the Viewer. Once you've selected the text, you will see a menu appear. Select the "Note" option from the menu.

The note module will be displayed on the right side of the screen. You now can write one or more notes that will be associated with the selected piece of content. Writing a note will update the note counter in the floating menu.

To save your note, click Done or the close icon ("x") in the upper right hand corner of the note module. Your new note will be saved and denoted with a yellow highlight and a yellow box on the right side the selected content.

You can edit a note by tapping on the highlight or box that contains an existing note. Add or delete from the note and tap Done to save your edits.

You can delete a note by clicking on the specific highlight that contains the note you want to delete, and then on the cancel highlight icon in the menu to delete the note.

You can create a note on mobile in the same way as web, by selecting a portion of text in your piece of content while in the Viewer. Once you've selected the text, you will see a menu appear. Select the "Note" option from the menu.

The Note module will be displayed in a fullscreen view. You now can write one or more notes that will be associated with the selected piece of content. Writing a note will update the note counter in the floating menu.

To exit the note module, simply click on Done in the upper right hand corner of the note module. Your new note will be saved and denoted with a yellow highlight and a yellow box on the right side the selected content.

You can edit a note by tapping on the specific highlight that contains an existing note. Add or delete from the note and tap Done to save your edits.

You can delete a note by tapping on the specific highlight that contains the note you want to delete, and tap the cancel highlight icon to delete the note.