YellowNotes for the Cloud

The web has ever more information, but less and less of it is entirely trustworthy.

We need a way to bring trusted human judgement to where we happen to be.

Since AI chatbots learn from the web, trusted human judgement must be woven into AI.

Human Judgment-Based AI

In a world where intelligence becomes plentiful, judgement becomes scarce.

YellowNotes combines human judgment with AI. Instead of relying on a model trained on everything, you choose whose judgment the AI should use.

Stop Prompt Engineering. Start Trusting Judgment. Traditional AI expects you to know exactly what to ask. YellowNotes lets you borrow someone else's expertise instead.

Current AI systems are trained on enormous collections of text selected by the model creators. You rarely know exactly what information went into them, or how it was filtered.

With YellowNotes you choose the curator yourself. Each topic is maintained by someone whose judgment you trust.

Different people are experts in different subjects. Rather than relying on one universal AI, you decide whose expertise should guide each conversation.

Large language models, LLMs, depend heavily on the prompt, where good answers often require prior knowledge.

YellowNotes supplements your question with the judgment of an expert you selected. This cuts down on the need to construct the perfect prompt.

AI as currently experienced by most users is based on Large Language Models — essentially text, lots of it, used to "train" these models. The premise: the answer is in there somewhere and powerful computers can dig it out. But you don't know what source material went in, and you have to trust the model makers to select and edit it appropriately.

With YellowNotes you decide who should be this editor — someone you trust to select material appropriate to the task at hand.

This differs per subject. Someone has good judgement about one thing but not another. There is no one-size-fits-all. You select who you want to use and for what.

Create a topic on a subject you know well. As you find material, stick a note on it. Your subscribers can then chat with an AI that uses your curated material as its source of truth.

In the AI chatinterface on the platform you find the typical chatbot interface of most LLM-based AI sites.

With one addition. On top of the GUI there is a list of the topics your are a subscriber to.

A topic is a collection of Yellownotes created by a person.

topics are collections of YellowNotes. The creator of a topic exercises their judgement in creating the yellownotes and adding them to the topic in question.

With one addition. On top of the GUI there is a list of the topic your are a subscriber to.

Expert finds article
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Adds sticky note
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Sticky note becomes part of topic
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Subscribers follow topic
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Subscribers ask AI
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AI answers using curated notes

The internet overflows with knowledge. Judgement is scarce. If you have it, make it available to others.

And of people use your judgement, you should get paid. YellowNotes for the Cloud is for you

capture your expertise and judgement

monetize judgement

On the platform decide who can use your topics, how and how much.

If you have special insigt into a field or subject, you can change per the prompt or set usage limits by the hour, day or month.

The augmented web

The web can be an unruly and unreal place. With the increasing proportion of machine-generated content there is an increasing premium on the personal. The future of the web must focus less on generating even more information but rather on enriching existing information with layers of trusted human insight, context, and interpretation.

It is like Augmented Reality, but for websites.

The Digital Sticky Note

One of the most brilliant paper inventions was the Post-it note by 3M. The information you wanted in exactly the right place. It was a superior paper document technology, for books and refrigerator doors. YellowNotes brings this functionality to the web. Attach a note to any spot on the internet. Others see them exactly where you left them.

YellowNotes is a lightweight note system inspired by sticky notes and seeks to replicate this functionality on the web. Create, tag, and organize quick thoughts that drift into thematic clouds you can revisit later. Use them to jot down tasks, save links, brainstorm, or sketch plans — then group them and search across all your notes. And make this selectively available to others. This makes human judgement available.

A YellowNote is not just typed text; you can also write by hand or draw in a note, to truly capture the feel of Post-its.

Simply stick the note on the page and draw an arrow pointing to the item of interest.

Where before you stuck a note on the fridge saying "buy milk" you can now stick one on a website saying the same thing.

Or send your partner a note which when opened takes them to the relevant webpage, with a message that says "get 2 of this one".

Great value lies in how notes annotate in exactly the right place, attached precisely to the part of the page they refer to.

Pinpointing a note to an exact spot on someone else's web page requires the YellowNotes browser extension, which overlays your notes onto the original site as you browse it.