Four volumes, one lingering margin note, and a small ritual for deciding what comes off the shelf next.
0volumes returned to the shelf
A practice
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
A voyage
The Wager
David Grann
A long signal
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A decision
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
The circulation desk
Margin notes, before they vanish.
This is the little scrap of paper tucked between chapters. Leave a next-up cue, a borrowed thought, or the name of the person who recommended it.
Notes to self
Hail Mary first — everyone says go in blind.
What this is
A reading list with statuses and notes that your AI can update from any future conversation — no hunting for which app the list lives in.
Who uses it
Readers, book clubs, watch-list keepers.
Moments it lives in
'Mark The Wager finished' from your phone, mid-chat, weeks later
Notes box for who recommended what
Ask for a recommendation based on what's marked finished
How it comes about — a real conversation
Start a reading list: The Creative Act, The Wager, Project Hail Mary, Thinking in Bets.
Published with status selectors and a notes box. It's private to you.
Mark Hail Mary finished and add whatever the club picks next.
Done — 1 finished. The club's pick 'North Woods' is added as Want to read.
Get set up (~30 seconds)
Paste this to Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok — then ask for your version of this page. Or use this page's copy control to take a working copy, state and all.
Go to https://notepad.page and follow its setup instructions to set me up. If you can't access it: tell me where in this app I add a custom connector, use this exact URL: https://mcp.notepad.page/mcp — then wait for me.
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