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Local-first notes for a life of ideas

Keep the things worth keeping.

Lar is a private place for thoughts you want to return to—calm enough to write in, structured enough to grow with you.

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On keeping

A commonplace note

SourceSeneca · Letters to Lucilius
ThemeAttention

“We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application, and learn them so well that words become works.”

Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 108

Keep what changes the way you see. Return when it matters. Let a small note become part of the work.

A workspace, not a pile

A thought should not end where you wrote it.

A sentence can become a source for a project, a reminder for tomorrow, or the beginning of an idea. Lar gives the important things in your life a shape—and keeps their context close.

One note, more useful places

Let the idea travel without losing its home.

Write freely first. When a thought matters, connect it to the people, projects, books, and next steps around it. The original note stays human; its context becomes useful.

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NoteOn keeping

Words become works.

SourceLetters to LuciliusSeneca
ProjectCommonplace bookIn progress
Next stepReturn to Letter 108Friday
One thought, held in context.
01 Capture

Start before you know where it belongs.

A passing line, a meeting detail, a book worth returning to. Put it down without making a filing decision first. Lar keeps the unfinished thought in Captures until you are ready.

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THURSDAY · 13 AUG

Things to keep

“Words become works.” Revisit the whole letter.

Sketch the opening for the reading notes.

Ask Mara about the workshop.

Capture the thought while it is still alive.
02 Give it shape

Make the notes that matter easier to use.

A note can stay a note. A book, person, project, or task can have the details that make it recognisable at a glance—and relationships that keep it from becoming another dead end.

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03 Find the thread

Come back to the right thing at the right time.

Search across what you wrote, then follow the relationships around it. Lar is built for the moment an old idea suddenly becomes relevant again.

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IN YOUR WORKSPACE

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Letter 108Source · SenecaBook
Find the thought, then the context around it.

Yours from the beginning

A place for your mind should begin with your control.

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