A·Kennen — Reading, writing and understanding

Reading and writing,two reciprocal aspects
of the same creative process

towards understanding.

Reading and writing, unified.

A reading highlight beside the draft, connected to its citation. — Your reading and your draft remain connected.

Reading is not
information consumption.

It's a process of encountering existing knowledge, coming to understand the meaning of it as represented by words, through which your own thinking begins to form, yet remains to be developed and examined through rigorous writing.

Keep notes with the draft

File your notes to the right margin of your draft.

Keep what matters to your writing, ready to revisit.

## Introduction

What is understanding.

It seems not much is understood about what understanding is,

but as evident to Penrose, it seems, at the very least, it is something that requires awareness.

Can machines have awareness? Could it ever be conscious? Or, in other words, could a Turing machine, which is fundamentally following rules and instructions, no matter how complicated as we have made it 'human-like', ever acquire conscious awareness?

Or drag the yellow stick to the right margin.

Writing is not
text generation.

It's a process of rigorous thinking, through which vague ideas, flawed reasoning and gaps in understanding are made apparent and examined in the attempt of coherent articulation. It's how you discover what you think.

Marginalia made functional.

Bring related readings back in seconds, right next to your writing.

Type ?? beside your sentence to bring related reading back within reach.

A related reading returned to the left margin beside the sentence being written. — A note from your reading, brought back for what you are writing.

## Introduction

What is understanding.

It seems not much is understood about what understanding is,

but as evident to Penrose, it seems, at the very least, it is something that requires awareness.

Understanding might be beyond following rules

Craftsmanship

Aesthetics is essential
to technology.

Mac native.

In the lineage of iA Writer’s design.

The Mac writing workspace with draft, reading notes and filed notes. — Room to stay in your thinking.

Room to stay in your thinking.

Our philosophy

Machines compute,

arranging patterns of linguistic forms,
in the space of information.

You understand,

through the creative process of reading and writing,
in the territory of meaning.

Our boundary

We refuse to take this creative process away from you, as is tempting in the age of AI.

Nonetheless we take advantage of AI to minimise the frictions around this process, so you can focus on your journey…

William Turner of Oxford’s watercolour of a landscape in Northumberland

Towards understanding.

The private beta is for Mac.

Machines compute.
You understand.

Reading and writing,two reciprocal aspects
of the same creative process

Reading and writing, unified.

Reading is not
information consumption.

File your notes to the right margin of your draft.

## Introduction

Writing is not
text generation.

Marginalia made functional.

## Introduction

Aesthetics is essential
to technology.

Our philosophy

Machines compute,

You understand,

Our boundary

Towards understanding.

An invitation to
read and write.

You’re on the waitlist.

Reading and writing,two reciprocal aspects of the same creative process

Reading and writing, unified.

Reading is not information consumption.

## Introduction

Writing is not text generation.

## Introduction

Machines compute,

You understand,

Towards understanding.

An invitation to read and write.

You’re on the waitlist.

Reading and writing,two reciprocal aspects
of the same creative process

Reading is not
information consumption.

Writing is not
text generation.

An invitation to
read and write.