Blog & guides
Articles and guides.
Read our latest thinking on Takt, or find a practical guide to using it.
Blog posts
Updates and ideas from the Takt team.
-
LLMs are general. Your library isn't.
Sean Goedecke argues that LLMs reward expertise. He's right - and it means the things you've already saved are worth more than you think.
Read post -
Your AI tools can now use your Takt library as context
Connect Takt over MCP and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, or Grok can search, read, and cite everything you've saved. Here's how to set it up.
Read post
Guides & reference
Practical walkthroughs and explanations of how Takt works.
-
AI note-taking for the things you actually save
How Takt turns videos, PDFs, articles, posts, and voice notes into structured, searchable Markdown notes.
Read guide -
What is a personal knowledge library?
A practical guide to building a searchable library from the sources, ideas, and notes you want to remember.
Read guide Keep the good part of every video.
Save YouTube videos in Takt and turn them into structured Markdown notes with a summary, key insights, timestamps, tags, and the original video.
Read guideKeep the PDF. Keep the point.
Save a PDF in Takt to keep it with a structured, searchable Markdown note, key insights, tags, and the original document.
Read guidePrivacy and AI processing, in plain language.
A plain-language explanation of what Takt stores, when source content is sent to providers, what MCP-connected AI clients can access, and what they cannot do.
Read guideWhat Takt can save-and what happens when it cannot.
A transparent, maintained matrix of the public sources Takt
Read guide