Most productivity systems focus on organization. LogMark focuses on accumulation.
The difference matters. Organization asks: "Where does this go?" Accumulation asks: "How can I capture this before I forget?"
Your captures aren't just notes. They're the foundation of a knowledge corpus - a personal knowledge base that grows with you.
What is a Knowledge Corpus?
A corpus is a body of work. For researchers, it's their collected writings. For artists, their portfolio. For knowledge workers, it should be their accumulated thinking.
Your knowledge corpus includes:
- Observations - What you noticed, what seemed interesting
- Ideas - Possibilities worth exploring
- Decisions - Choices made and why
- Blocks - Where you got stuck and how you broke through
- Connections - Links between disparate concepts
Over time, this corpus becomes invaluable. It's external memory. It's a record of how your thinking evolved. It's a resource for future work.
The Compound Effect
Consider the math of consistent capture:
| Captures/day | Per month | Per year | In 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 90 | 1,000+ | 5,000+ |
| 5 | 150 | 1,800+ | 9,000+ |
| 10 | 300 | 3,600+ | 18,000+ |
Even modest daily capture compounds into a substantial corpus. But only if capture is frictionless enough to become habitual.
This is why speed matters so much. The difference between 3 captures per day and 10 captures per day isn't the individual entries - it's the corpus you build over years.
Emergent Organization
Traditional systems force organization at capture time. LogMark inverts this.
At capture: Just write. Add a type prefix (t:, i:, b:, d:) if useful. Add a route (+project) if obvious. Otherwise, just capture.
At review: Your weekly review surfaces patterns. You notice clusters of related thoughts. You create routes to organize them going forward.
Over time: Your organization scheme evolves with your work. It reflects how you actually think, not how some system designer imagined you might.
This approach has a name in knowledge management: emergent organization. Structure develops from the content, not imposed from above.
From Corpus to Insight
A corpus isn't just storage. It's a resource for insight.
Search your past thinking - When facing a new challenge, search for related captures. What did you think about similar problems? What worked? What didn't?
Find unexpected connections - Ideas captured months apart might connect in surprising ways. AI-assisted tools can surface these connections.
Track your evolution - How has your thinking changed? What recurring themes appear? Where do you get stuck repeatedly?
Getting Started
Building a corpus is simple:
- Capture consistently - Every observation, idea, decision. Don't filter at capture time.
- Review weekly - Spend 15 minutes reviewing recent captures. Notice patterns.
- Trust the process - The value compounds. Month one feels modest. Year one feels powerful.
LogMark is designed for this. Fast capture for consistent accumulation. Simple notation for emergent structure. Search and AI for surfacing connections.
Your future self will thank you for the corpus you build today.