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--- imported_by: wikihub-q7gz scraped_at: 2026-01-30 source_gdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5g3tOZnDOnIZ-_oz-VmqgexGnl4u1o-dsMxnhz9AOY source_url: http://hiringblurb.jacobcole.net/ title: Hiring Blurb visibility: public --- \` [[systematicawesome]] \> [[hiringblurb]] \#project \#connectordoc started by <jacob@ideaflow.io> cc — I am confusion. Why is this draft document linked from the Careers page of the Ideaflow website? Feels like amateur hour. Template: # 🧠 Principal Engineer @ Ideaflow - Build Humanity's Collective Brain We're building a notebook that augments your intelligence. It's the world's lowest-friction thought-capture system, which also turns written & audio notes into an ideal structured knowledge base. Moreover, Internet research and knowledge management are currently two separate phases. You research in a tool like Perplexity and then copy your results to a notebook like Obsidian or Notion. Ideaflow is an AI co-pilot natively integrated into an Obsidian-like notebook which allows you to augment or enrich the results instead of just starting a second query. Ideaflow is the first truly AI-native personal notes app — a powerful research co-pilot that blends the simplicity of Apple Notes with the intelligence and structure of an enterprise-grade database or CRM. We’re starting Cursor for knowledge work ranging from investment research to sales to biology to writing a book to remembering who to catch up with. Backed by \$10M+ from Naval, 8VC, and First Round Capital. Join us. ## The Challenge ⚡ - Building an offline-first, real-time collaborative notebook - Creating a UI that makes knowledge graphs feel magical - Crafting the smoothest thought-capture experience ever - Making collaborative intelligence feel like a superpower ## You'll Love This If 💫 - You're obsessed with performance & user experience - You've built real-time collaborative features - React & TypeScript make you happy - You have Strong Opinions™ about note-taking apps ## Why It's Cool 🚀 - Small, technical team shipping meaningful products - SF-based + remote, flexible work style, care about holistic wellness - Competitive salary + equity that matters ## The Handshake 🤝 Email hiringvip@ideaflow.io and tell us about your favorite note-taking system or knowledge management setup. Bonus points for weird productivity systems! Diverse teams build better products. All backgrounds welcome. ==== # 🧠 Principal Engineer @ Ideaflow - Build Humanity's Collective Brain Imagine the world's lowest-friction thought-capture system meets Figma-for-knowledge-graphs. Our mission: build the ultimate personal knowledge management system that evolves into humanity's collective brain. Backed by \$10M+ from Naval, Palantir co-founder, and First Round Capital. ## The Challenge ⚡ - Building an offline-first, real-time collaborative notebook - Creating a UI that makes knowledge graphs feel magical - Crafting the smoothest thought-capture experience ever - Making collaborative intelligence feel like a superpower ## You'll Love This If 💫 - You're obsessed with performance & user experience - You've built real-time collaborative features - React & TypeScript make you happy - You have Strong Opinions™ about note-taking apps ## Why It's Cool 🚀 - Small, technical team shipping meaningful products - SF-based + remote, flexible work style, care about holistic wellness - Competitive salary + equity that matters ## The Handshake 🤝 Email hiringvip@ideaflow.io and tell us about your favorite note-taking system or knowledge management setup. Bonus points for weird productivity systems! Diverse teams build better products. All backgrounds welcome. ==== # Draft Transcript to Greg Yeah, I mean, I would say, depending on who they are-- I was in Tim Berners-Lee's group at MIT and sort of have a download on the future of the web that is really remarkable and worthwhile. And we got backed by the absolute dream team of top VCs, like FirstRound, Naval - who were seed investors of Notion, also 8VC and a bunch of other investors. We think we can really, really categorically change how people are able to interact rapidly. We're building an external version of your mind, basically, is the way I would describe it. This allows people to - It's anyone who ever wanted to build the ultimate cognitive exosuit, which is, I think, at some level every hacker's dream. But some hackers more than others. We're giving you an opportunity to actually do that as your full-time job. It'll hopefully revolutionize productivity in all kinds of knowledge work areas as well as really be a seminal piece of how - It'll change how we interact with the web in a paradigmatic way as well. And it's a very timely moment to do it because AI is supercharged the ability to make this widely adopted. ## Long Founding Engineer: Ideaflow.io – A Notebook that Augments Your Intelligence [Video Intro to Ideaflow](https://www.loom.com/share/5120e3e4880445fab540b478e1e63d21) Hey guys, we're looking for a standout full stack engineer to build [ideaflow.io](http://ideaflow.io/) with us, possibly becoming a principal engineer. We are a unique company both in structure and mission, and raised \>\$10M in seed from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Naval, and the former CTO of Reddit. Our first product is a notebook that augments your intelligence — an ultra-low friction personal knowledge management system with aspirations to become a global brain. We have a large vision, unique history, and you can read more about some of the background ideas here: [[ideaflowbackground]]. We're trying to build a culture that feels like a merry band of skilled, emotionally intelligent hackers, living righteously off the land :) We'd like nothing more than to create true “assistive technology”, a suite of tools to make life easier for everyone – starting with the part of the computer closest to your brain: your notebook. We believe that what we're doing is on the critical path to unlock global collective intelligence, and tap the capacity of the Internet to help us care for each other more effectively. We aspire to be the bridge that enables AI to become a true extension of our minds. Technical challenges on the horizon include performance UX engineering across the stack, such as collaborative editing in [prosemirror.net](http://prosemirror.net/), IDE-like autocompletes with tens of thousands of items, and building an LLM of your notes you can talk to. Email me at <hiringvip@ideaflow.io> – I am a former MIT Media Lab Collective Intelligence researcher, and this project has been my life mission for over 7 years. I’d love to share why it matters so much to me, and why I think it’s so important. Our team is currently five fascinating, heart-centered, and inquisitive people 🌱. This is a chance to join the founding team of a company we hope becomes a new intellectual hub, and be a creative partner with huge autonomy and upside in what our investors think could be a \$10B+ business in size and impact. We're a great fit for someone who can really fall in love with building a super fast personal notetaking system or has a lot of thoughts (writings, lists, quotes, ideas, or notes on people!). Also a great fit some someone who is philosophical, spiritual, and oriented towards emotional and physical healing 🤗 • Try it:[ http://onboarding.ideaflow.app](http://onboarding.ideaflow.app/)\ • [Ideaflow Speech + Parse with AI Demo](https://youtu.be/hQaLg4o73yY?si=KEHZ2eihuAMLXbym) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaLg4o73yY> \ • [Bullet View](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo> \ Open Roles: 🚀 full stack JavaScript engineer up to the challenge of building something as complex and high-performance as an IDE 📱 iOS engineer with a deep care for UX engineering 💼 Warm-hearted, highly organized, fast-typing, operations person who loves our product and wants to share it with everyone, enthusiastic to be a human superconnector ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Principal Engineer: Ideaflow.io – Productivity Software / Tools for Thought “A notebook that augments your intelligence” “Tools for thought” has been a hot buzzword these days but we believe what exists barely scratches the surface of what’s possible. We are dedicated to realizing the Web’s potential to unlock global-scale collective intelligence. Our vision derives from years of research at the MIT Media Lab, we’ve now raised over \$10M from some of the world’s most influential investors, including First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, and Naval, and we are looking…for YOU. Our starting point is building the lowest-friction way to capture thought fragments on the go, and the automation/AI support to elevate them into a graph-structured personal knowledge base that feels like an extension of your memory. This paradigm seamlessly extends to enabling the surfacing of organizational knowledge just-in-time for teams. If you’re a strong Javascript engineer, have a lot of thoughts (writings, lists, quotes, ideas, or notes on people!) you want to capture, and are someone who likes to work with fun, bubbly people, drop us a line ✨🛁📓🤓. <jacob@ideaflow.io> This project has been my life mission for so [[ideaflowbackground|long]], and I’d love to share why it matters so much to me, and why I think it’s so important ~Jacob Cole, CEO, former MIT Media Lab Open Roles: <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] JavaScript engineer up to the challenge of building something as complex and high-performance as an IDE <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] iOS engineer with a deep care for UX engineering <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] Warm-hearted, highly organized, fast-typing, operations person, enthusiastic to be a human superconnector of people, [Blurbs](#h.l9il63fct0kb) [1](#h.l9il63fct0kb) [Current (Web)](#h.3lmlydms3mlo) [1](#h.3lmlydms3mlo) [1.](#h.j2m3f67634zg) [1](#h.j2m3f67634zg) [2.](#h.qtqysnr8sp5x) [1](#h.qtqysnr8sp5x) [Current (Designer) WIP](#h.1zi7howtkkdn) [2](#h.1zi7howtkkdn) [1.](#h.8l7vhi791xi4) [2](#h.8l7vhi791xi4) [Current (iOS) WIP](#h.cturfo5hl80a) [2](#h.cturfo5hl80a) [--](#h.7xb6qozd9ti0) [2](#h.7xb6qozd9ti0) [Drafts](#h.ze39o41s7g0c) [2](#h.ze39o41s7g0c) [Web](#h.53c1r9i5wkkp) [2](#h.53c1r9i5wkkp) [3. ](#h.htd0v65zob8h) [2](#h.htd0v65zob8h) [4. (Long)](#h.dbt6x6guvjod) [3](#h.dbt6x6guvjod) [---](#h.w6c1elfdfjdw) [4](#h.w6c1elfdfjdw) [Old](#h.qdw93z1fp792) [4](#h.qdw93z1fp792) [JS and iOS \#emailable](#h.e4jk3lpbvnl) [4](#h.e4jk3lpbvnl) [JS](#h.m5so814nx5zd) [4](#h.m5so814nx5zd) [FB Post and Funding Announcement: All Jobs](#h.trkry1j18aih) [4](#h.trkry1j18aih) [People](#h.3scmwp2rygc) [5](#h.3scmwp2rygc) [See Also](#h.gw5qelc6p42r) [5](#h.gw5qelc6p42r) See also: <https://www.ideaflow.io/careers> • Ideaflow Background • [Intelligence and Gestalts](https://docs.google.com/document/d/12RYDjQKqYPjAkFG1QJJLr2cmAjB-3dsORXz-SWbkkIc/edit%091) # WIP Description Ideaflow is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT Media Lab, we've raised over \$10M from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Sequoia scouts, and Naval. We're bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative, to empower creative souls to fly. We're looking for a personal assistant who can serve as a force multiplier to our CEO. Qualifications and Skills We are looking for an individual who is: - Scrupulous/detail-oriented - Can navigate a quickly-changing environment, flexible to work around shifting schedules - Is quick, efficacious, and humble - Is persistent and creative when it comes to getting things done, will always find a way - Superior organization skills: Great at creating the kernel of organization in a chaotic environment - Can show up in person in Menlo Park, CA on short notice (or lives nearby) - Can navigate ambiguous tasks easefully to deliver a helpful outcome; great at working independently with little direction - Willing to go the extra mile to get the job done right About the CEO I am a former MIT Media Lab Collective Intelligence researcher, and this project has been my life mission for over 7 years. I’d love to share why it matters so much to me, and why I think it’s so important. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ – Principal Engineer: Ideaflow.io – Productivity Software / Tools for Thought “A notebook that augments your intelligence” “Tools for thought” has been a hot buzzword these days but we believe what exists barely scratches the surface of what’s possible. We are dedicated to realizing the Web’s potential to unlock global-scale collective intelligence. Our vision derives from years of research at the MIT Media Lab, we’ve now raised over \$10M from some of the world’s most influential investors, including First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, and Naval, and we are looking…for YOU. Our starting point is building the lowest-friction way to capture thought fragments on the go, and the automation/AI support to elevate them into a graph-structured personal knowledge base that feels like an extension of your memory. This paradigm seamlessly extends to enabling the surfacing of organizational knowledge just-in-time for teams. If you’re a strong Javascript engineer, have a lot of thoughts (writings, lists, quotes, ideas, or notes on people!) you want to capture, and are someone who likes to work with fun, bubbly people, drop us a line ✨🛁📓🤓. <jacob@ideaflow.io> This project has been my life mission for so [[ideaflowbackground|long]], and I’d love to share why it matters so much to me, and why I think it’s so important ~Jacob Cole, CEO, former MIT Media Lab am We are dedicated to unlocking the Web’s potential to enable global-scale collective intelligence. humanity’s potential for massive-scale collective intelligence. — We may have a compelling opportunity for you. possibly be working on If you’re the right fit, I believe this is one of the most important things you could I really care about this project Our starting point is building ultra-low friction thought-capture software that feels like an extension of your memory. Our starting point is building ultra-low friction thought-capture software that feels like an extension of your memory. seamless thought-capture software that enables ideas exactly to capture info in the format you’re think inand uses AI to bring it into a graph-structured personal knowledge base that feels like an extension of your memory. Our starting point is building ultra-low friction thought-capture software that feels like an extension of your memory. Integrates all the knowledge from your company’s notes into a graph-structured company knowledge base a fundamentally novel primitive for personal information management, and maximally low-friction multi-modal thought capture, supported by AI to do what you would have done to organize your notes if you had more time, and to make connections you wouldn’t have seen. It’s not just an extended memory but a collective memory, helping you “remember” the notes of others in your org just in time. Notetaking software that enables you to combine all your company’s notes into one and connects all the dots Integrates all the knowledge from your company’s notes into a graph-structured company knowledge base AI-supported capture layer on top of it, for people who need who need to go HAM on PIM personal true power tools for personal information management, Our starting point is building software for people who need power tools for personal information management, tool for power users of personal information Would you LOVE to be able to capture and connect thoughts: epiphanies, ideas, quotes (heck, restaurant recommendations) instantly, on the go, and have this form the basis of your personal knowledge base? Up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Ideaflow is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT Media Lab, we've raised over \$10M from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Sequoia scouts, and Naval. We're bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative, to empower creative souls to fly. We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web. Jacob Cole, MIT Media Lab product designer — Ideaflow.io – Principal Engineer "Would you LOVE to be able to capture and connect thoughts: epiphanies, ideas, quotes (heck, restaurant recommendations) instantly, on the go, and have this form the basis of your personal knowledge base? Up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Ideaflow is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT Media Lab, we've raised over \$10M from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Sequoia scouts, and Naval. We're bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative, to empower creative souls to fly. We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web. Jacob Cole, MIT Media Lab product designer and CEO Life mission: <http://systematicawesome.jacobcole.net/> find job blurb for someone like you —- I'm trying to figure out whether to post this or: Ideaflow is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT Media Lab, we've raised over \$10M from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Sequoia scouts, and Naval. We're bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative, to empower creative souls to fly. We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web. I would love to get to know people who are prolific makers, mindful intellectuals, and up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Excited to build community! Email: jacob@ideaflow.io # Blurbs ## Current (Web) ### 1. [Ideaflow](http://ideaflow.io) is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT and Oxford, we've raised over \$10M from top angels and VCs, including First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, and Naval Ravikant. We're bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative and lightweight, to empower creative souls to fly. We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence and global action. I would love to get to know people who are prolific makers, mindful intellectuals, and up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Excited to build community! Email: jacob@ideaflow.io Other roles available as well: <http://ideaflow.io/careers> --- [Ideaflow](http://ideaflow.io) is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT Media Lab, we've raised over \$10M from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Sequoia scouts, and Naval. We're bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative, to empower creative souls to fly. We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web. I would love to get to know people who are prolific makers, mindful intellectuals, and up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Excited to build community! Email: jacob@ideaflow.io Other roles available as well: <http://ideaflow.io/careers> ### 2. <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] I'm Jacob Cole, MIT Media Lab product designer and cofounder of Ideaflow.io, a notebook that augments your intelligence. We’re hoping to bring tools for thought mainstream by making them collaborative, lightweight, and approachable\*. We've raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs – including First Round, Sequoia scouts, and Naval – are a small team, and are looking for a founding-team engineer to play a key role and be a true thought partner, ideally in the next two months. I would love to get to know people who are prolific makers, mindful intellectuals, and up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Excited to build community! Remote ok! Email: <jacob@ideaflow.io> Demo (notes on Sequoia)[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo> <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] Other roles available as well: <http://ideaflow.io/careers> \*We also see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence and global action. See \#rabbithole on ideaflow.io 🙂 -- "Would you LOVE to be able to capture and connect thoughts: epiphanies, ideas, books, restaurants, quotes instantly, on the go, and have this form the basis of your personal knowledge base? Up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! If so, we raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs – including First Round, Sequoia scouts, and Naval, and are looking for a potentially lead engineer for Ideaflow.io! Would love to get to know you, and to build community. Jacob Cole, MIT Media Lab product designer and CEO Life mission: <http://systematicawesome.jacobcole.net/> cofounder of Ideaflow.io, a notebook that augments your intelligence. We’re hoping to bring tools for thought mainstream by making them collaborative, lightweight, and approachable\*. We've raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs – including First Round, Sequoia scouts, and Naval – are a small team, and are looking for a founding-team engineer to play a key role and be a true thought partner, ideally in the next two months. Something else that would tremendously help me: finding a really capable designer who would be super into this space, great at UX/keeping lists and is also fun and bubbly and would vibe with my working/thinking style! <https://www.ideaflow.io/product-designer> -- ## Current (Designer) WIP ### 1. "Would you LOVE to be able to capture and connect thoughts: epiphanies, ideas, books, restaurants, quotes" instantly, on the go, and have this form the basis of your personal knowledge base?" if so, want to be one of the designers on the founding team of ideaflow? Something else that would tremendously help me: finding a really capable designer who would be super into this space, great at UX/keeping lists and is also fun and bubbly and would vibe with my working/thinking style! <https://www.ideaflow.io/product-designer> ## Current (iOS) WIP <https://www.ideaflow.io/ios-engineer> Blurb to post: Ideaflow is building a notebook that augments your intelligence, as part of the path to enabling massive scale collaborative problem solving. As a step towards this, we're looking for an iOS engineer who wants to build the best-ever, low-friction personal notes app and has a deep care for UX engineering! We're a small team from MIT and have raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs; open to making a highly competitive offer and creating a role with tremendous autonomy for the right person who can be a true thought partner! ## -- ## Drafts #### WIP I was thinking for a one liner, something like: ideaflow is an API for your brain; query and interact with your thoughts, ideas, or epiphanies to build the knowledge you have yet to realize. ideaflow is an API for your brain; query and interact with your thoughts, ideas, or epiphanies to build the knowledge you have yet to realize. As a step towards this, we're looking for a designer and iOS engineer who wants to help invent the best-ever, low-friction personal thought-capture app, and has a deep care for UX! We're a small team from MIT and have raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs; open to making a highly competitive offer and creating a role with tremendous autonomy for the right person who can be a true thought partner in either role. ~winnie #### Web ### 3. <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] My name is Jacob Cole. I’m a former MIT Media Lab product designer and current co-founder of[ ](http://ideaflow.io/)[Ideaflow.io](http://ideaflow.io/). We are a small team but growing fast, and I’m on the hunt for a founding-team engineer to join, straight away, as a true thought partner. [Ideaflow.io](http://ideaflow.io/) is bringing tools for thought mainstream by making them collaborative, lightweight, and approachable. This advancement is a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence and global action.\* We’ve started with a notebook that augments your intelligence. I want to talk to those who are: prolific makers, mindful intellectuals, and up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Your location is not a constraint; remote ok! Email: jacob@ideaflow.io Ideaflow has raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs, including First Round, Sequoia scouts, and Naval. <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] Not an engineer but excited by the vision? We are hiring for other roles as well:[ ](http://ideaflow.io/careers)<http://ideaflow.io/careers> Check out our demo (notes on Sequoia):[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo> \* See \#rabbithole on[ ](http://ideaflow.io/)[ideaflow.io](http://ideaflow.io/) <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 14.67px; height: 14.67px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] ### 4. (Long) • MIT Media Lab product designer Jacob Cole and exited YC founder David Greenspan (creator of Etherpad, YC ‘07 as AppJet, sold to Google) have teamed up to build IdeaFlow —a notebook that augments your intelligence as you type. • How does this work? For instance, if you had a conversation two years ago, and took a note that mentioned someone's name, and then you're in another meeting now and you end up typing in the same name, it will autocomplete, and show you all the past references to that person and what they are connected to. So it augments your memory by completing these tip of the tongue moments. • What's more, it doesn't just pull from your past notes, but your entire team's notes. So it's not just an extension of your memory but a collective memory for your organization. • This is just the beginning. It doesn't just sit on top of notes taken in our app, but becomes a layer on top of all the siloed data sources in your company. It can pull from your CRM, your emails, internal spreadsheets. And all the datasources, like Pitchbook, your org may subscribe to. It's an entire new "mind layer" on top of computer UI that allows you to browse all information in your organization like you do in your brain. • We've already garnered over \$400K in revenue from pilots on small teams. With our recent fundraise of \$10M from prominent VCs and thought-leaders in the field, including Joe Lonsdale, First Round Capital, Naval Ravikant and Sequoia Scouts, we're in a unique position to deploy this to transform not only personal information management but large organizations. • For instance, one advisor who came on board recently is the former director of Microsoft Digital, which is Microsoft's equivalent of a consulting firm like McKinsey. He oversaw its' growth from zero to \$500 million in yearly revenue. He anticipates we could deploy Ideaflow at a site license scale, to the tune of about \$2M/year, in Microsoft Digital and similar organizations. • This will enable us to achieve our larger vision for the future of computing and the future of work, by serving not only as read layer but a write layer – Instead of having to compose information into Salesforce's cumbersome interface, consultants can take all their notes in our platform and they will automatically be persistent to all appropriate systems of record. • We see personal information management systems like this as the future of how people will interact with computers. • This is the beginning of a "shared brain" for organizations. Read more: https://www.ideaflow.io/careers 1. <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] I'm Jacob Cole, MIT Media Lab product designer and cofounder of Ideaflow.io, a notebook that augments your intelligence. We've raised \$10M from top VCs and are aiming bringing tools for thought mainstream – by making them collaborative, lightweight, and approachable\*. We've raised a \$10M seed round from top VCs – including First Round, Sequoia scouts, and Naval – are a small team, and are looking for a founding-team engineer to play a key role and be a true thought partner, ideally in the next two months. I would love to get to know people who are prolific makers, mindful intellectuals, and up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript (Typescript)! Excited to build community! Remote ok. Email: <jacob@ideaflow.io> Demo (notes on Sequoia)[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo> <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] Other roles available as well: <http://ideaflow.io/careers> \*We also see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence and global action. See \#rabbithole on ideaflow.io 🙂 ## --- # Old ### Marketing Marketing Associate [Apply Now](https://kaib430d7vl.typeform.com/to/jocr8KUX) Our Company & Team Overview: MIT Media Lab product designer Jacob Cole, YC founder David Greenspan (Etherpad, Google, Meteor.js), and other veteran entrepreneurs have teamed up to build Ideaflow – a notebook that augments your intelligence as you type. Our product enables users to seamlessly capture and stitch together fragments of information, amplifying their ability to solve critical problems. Ray Kurzweil projects that, by 2045, humanity will be hooked up to a "shared neocortex in the cloud" by brain-computer interfaces. We will leave the brain-computer interfaces to Elon Musk, but we believe it’s possible to build that "shared brain" now, and that it might look different than many imagine. We want to create a future where nobody feels alone with their ideas, where intellectual soulmates find each other, where superconnectors are empowered. We see our software as critical to creating the frame for humans and machines to work together to solve the world's most important problems. With a raise of \$10 million, the backing of prominent thought leaders in the field - like First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia Scouts, and Naval Ravikant - and a successful paid pilot for large enterprise clients, we are ready to take on these challenges. We are looking for fearlessly creative individuals who can fall in love with personal information management systems, which we see as integral to the destiny of the Web. The Role: We are: engineers with an artistic impulse, serial founders, community builders, curators of quotes, hosts of intellectual salons, side project fanatics, lovers of nature and human nature – all united by a desire to scale our ability to help people, and to help the Internet continue to truly serve on the side of the user. We're looking for an experienced Marketing Associate to further the mission of Ideaflow in a role that involves autonomy, creative freedom, and leadership. It would be preferred if you are excited about curating all kinds of valuable information for the good of the world, and for your personal improvement. Responsibilities Include: - Managing our digital marketing strategy to help build the Ideaflow brand - Engaging and growing our user community with content and events - Leading product innovation by gathering and analyzing user data - Supporting internal operations alongside our Operations team It Would Be Great If You Have: - 1+ years of marketing experience - Excellent writing and communication skills - Created a blog, Twitter account, or YouTube channel - Experience with digital marketing tools and relevant techniques - Managed a community (moderating a Discord server or forum counts!) You Will Love Working With Us If You: - Use tools to collect and organize the thoughts and data in your daily life - Thrive in an open and flexible environment - Frequently find yourself working on side projects - Have a passion for innovation and feel at home with the startup lifestyle We Offer: - A competitive salary with equity incentives - Work from home accommodations - \$500/month to promote well being - Flexible work hours with unlimited PTO - Comprehensive health, vision and dental benefits for full-time employees (including acupuncture!) - A problem worth solving ## JS and iOS \#emailable \#actionable \#specific MIT Media Lab researcher/product designer Jacob Cole, exited YC founder David Greenspan (creator of Etherpad, YC ‘07 as AppJet, sold to Google), and other veteran entrepreneurs have teamed up to build Ideaflow —a notebook that augments your intelligence as you type. Demo: Post a meeting with Sequoia\ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo> We see this not only as a chance to build the ultimate personal information management system for individuals and teams, but a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence. We've just raised over \$10M from First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, Naval Ravikant, and others, and are looking for a special sort of person with significant JavaScript experience to play a major role. We believe in the power of small, highly-skilled teams with a deep sense of mutual respect, and would love to find someone who could fall in love with personal information management systems with us. Also looking for an iOS Swift engineer of similar persuasions, ready to build the lowest-friction thought capture humanly possible. ## JS \#actionable \#specific MIT Media Lab researcher/product designer Jacob Cole, exited YC founder David Greenspan (creator of Etherpad, YC ‘07 as AppJet, sold to Google), and other veteran entrepreneurs have teamed up to build Ideaflow —a notebook that augments your intelligence as you type. Demo: Post a meeting with Sequoia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo> We see this not only as a chance to build the ultimate personal information management system for individuals and teams, but a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence. We've just raised over \$10M from First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, Naval Ravikant, and others, and are looking for a special sort of person with significant JavaScript experience to play a major role. We believe in the power of small, highly-skilled teams with a deep sense of mutual respect, and would love to find someone who could fall in love with personal information management systems with us. Looking for someone up to the challenge of building something at least as complex and high performance as an IDE in Javascript. ## FB Post and Funding Announcement: All Jobs <https://www.facebook.com/jacob.cole.9615/posts/10164115580540023> As many of you know, I've been working to build the vision of Ideaflow for many years. Happy to share that we've raised \$10M from First Round Capital, Sequoia Scouts, and more wonderful partners to build out our team and scale Ideaflow into a notebook that can augment human intelligence! Does anyone know someone with a deep intellectual spirit who might be a great fit to take an incredible amount of ownership in one of these key roles? (\$10K referral bonus) <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] JavaScript engineer up to the challenge of building something as complex and high-performance as an IDE <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] iOS engineer with a deep care for UX engineering <span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 16.00px; height: 16.00px;"></span> \[Inline image omitted — original Google Doc has embedded image; see source for original.\] Warm-hearted, highly organized, fast-typing, operations person, enthusiastic to be a human superconnector of people, ideas, and resources In each case, we can offer a perhaps unique amount of creative freedom, and are looking for someone who can really fall in love with personal information management systems with us, which we see is integral to the destiny of the web. Check out[ ](http://ideaflow.io/careers?fbclid=IwAR1ZoLZy2sQ0iRhEaiqOjuJ3ez8TaC67L2mVsOKNkVFStdR23HzL9ZYZKLo)[ideaflow.io/careers](http://ideaflow.io/careers?fbclid=IwAR1ZoLZy2sQ0iRhEaiqOjuJ3ez8TaC67L2mVsOKNkVFStdR23HzL9ZYZKLo) and / or email me at jacob@ideaflow.io for more! Massive shoutout and gratitude to[ ](https://www.facebook.com/david.greenspan.96?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[David Greenspan](https://www.facebook.com/david.greenspan.96?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[ ](https://www.facebook.com/baptiste.manson?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[Baptiste Manson](https://www.facebook.com/baptiste.manson?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[ ](https://www.facebook.com/errendir?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[Albert Sławiński](https://www.facebook.com/errendir?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[ ](https://www.facebook.com/ayylist?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R)[Alex List](https://www.facebook.com/ayylist?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWNE4pFF8dPSOY-FhOLhvQpnGZbKemzBKhKJo4Mq-W9RYn8eaMsqkfWY8019kiVYmMuY3HD5rP0IICON3sXU0TLKFFsp_GNEz9nD--mQZMP96UhDlFX2o-xFRArW3ruTAI&__tn__=-%5DK-R) and countless others for making this happen! ## People Sam Galler ~smgaller@gmail.com Jacob Cole Looking for: designer, full stack engineering collaborator. Email <jacob@ideaflow.io> #lookingfor ## See Also <https://www.ideaflow.io/> <https://www.ideaflow.io/careers> <http://ideaflowbackground.jacobcole.net/> (#Draft Designer posting by Victoria) The company: [Ideaflow](http://ideaflow.io) is a notebook that captures your thoughts and augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT and Oxford, we've raised over \$10M from top angels and VCs, including First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, and Naval Ravikant. We're bringing tools for thought mainstream! Our goal is to make personal information management collaborative and lightweight, to empower creative souls to fly. We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence and global action. Who we are: Technologists with an artistic impulse, serial founders, community builders, curators of quotes, hosts of intellectual salons, side project fanatics, lovers of nature and human nature – all united by a desire to scale our ability to help people. The role: We're looking for prolific makers and mindful intellectuals. As a designer, you will further the mission of Ideaflow in a position that involves autonomy, creative freedom, and leadership. Bonus points if you are someone who always has a running list and nerds out about information and the world. ---- V2: bubbly The role: Who’s a prolific makers, mindful, intellectual, and also fun and bubbly? We’re looking for someone really enjoy working with. As a designer, you will further the mission of Ideaflow in a position that involves autonomy, creative freedom, and leadership. Bonus points if you are someone who always has a running list and nerds out about information and the world. Idea dump: - We're looking for a designer who unabashedly loves their craft, is excellent at keeping lists and appreciates the journey. great at UX/keeping lists and is also fun and bubbly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Albert Ni Feedback Draft ### Scratch Notes Attractors for top tal: caliber autonomy compelling long term mission -”make the act of writing a word higher leverage” ~ Differentiator diagnosis nontrivial and noticeable; or team product insight team diff slick lightweight – crowded space lightweight slick concise “Info management system that is more lightweight slick concise” Alternative hooks - -make the act of writing a word higher leverage - -Info management system that is more lightweight slick concise - -machine that makes sense of whatever you throw at it does with it what you would have done with time / attention – personalized ai coming to work for you in your notebook <!-- --> - power of linked info mgmt system and putting it in notebook, backed by power of palantir <!-- --> - Random jacob thoughts - really lightweight and collective - enables you to surface fragments of info from teams collective memory just in team <!-- --> - of team information just in time <!-- --> - vision empowering superconnectors pathway to a world-changing vision of <!-- --> - highly ambition vision - using tools to build a new ren <!-- --> - lack of play sponteneity inspiration connection - unlock the power of superconnectors - also backed by top investors - sweeping vision ## Linus Jacob Blurb work <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X8YgX94sV8TtRXahU0bBze_QJZiT5T-HNomWJUyjDfE/edit> Linus Jacob Blurb Work Tools that help us think - productivity software, note-taking apps, even “tools for thought” like Roam or Obsidian - are still only beginning to take advantage of the power, interactivity, and speed of today’s computers to help us make sense of the world both at work and in life. We think long term, asking questions like “What comes after hypertext/” while building products that bring our ideas down into the hands of an enthusiastic community of users. —- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2023-07-06 We are trying to build a tight-knit, design-centered culture, with concise, holistically considered, and elegant execution — truly thinking at all levels of the stack. I reflect on the power of a highly effective design-centered execution team, who can bang out a good version of the products that many less artful, concise, and flow oriented thinkers may not have passion around or may struggle with. Someone who is as much a good writer and mental health counselor as can ace an algorithms class. — Someone who can make a graph viz with a million nodes render smartly and also be able to kindly tell the rest of us when it probably doesn't make sense to do so. \#HiringBlurb Wanting to build a Really strong product / design centric culture There are so many opportunities branching out of this. For instance, Neo4j the graph database company, recently released a “user-friendly“ graph, exploration, interface, that on some level is a competitor to the old Ideapad. Lots of overlapping features. However, I’ve been trying to use it for the last several hours, and it’s honestly truly awful to learn how to use, and still off all even once you have learned how! For instants, to create a new none, you have to right click, and then go into a context menu, and then fill out a whole dialog. Obviously, nobody working on this has ever been into mind mapping or getting into flow 🙈 While it’s not our product’s focus right now, when I see opportunities like this (basically, the existence of that product is giant market validation on the old Ideapad— they now have organizations like NASA as a customer!), I reflect on the power of a highly effective design-centered execution team, who can bang out a good version of the products that many less artful, concise, and flow oriented thinkers may not have passion around or may struggle with. —- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Blurb 2024 We're looking for an exceptional fullstack engineer to join our small, stellar team of passionate engineers and help build a high performance offline-first web and Electron app. This role requires expertise in real-time collaboration technologies, CRDTs, and graph visualization interfaces. Your work will be at the forefront of creating a tool that acts like an IDE for human thought, with high performance autocompletion and seamless interaction. ### Responsibilities - Helping build-out core product offerings, including a low-friction notes app and an ontology (knowledge graph) editor - Building something at least as complex, seamless, and high performance as an IDE - Developing frontend and backend architecture, including API design, database schemas and 3rd party API integration - Defining technical priorities with the core engineering team - Participating and contributing to the agile development process - Keeping abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages ### Qualifications - Expert knowledge of general web technologies, in particular Typescript, React, Node - 5+ years of full-stack development experience - Experience with Continuous Integration - Deep technical understanding and product-oriented ### Ideal Candidate Traits - Proactive communicator - Enjoys building products in their free time - Demonstrated the ability to work well in a team - High levels of social empathy and willingness to stick up for important ideas ### Application Instructions If you are interested in this, please email <jacob+hiringVIP@ideaflow.io> with a portfolio of past projects and your resume. — LinkedIn We’re hiring an exceptional fullstack engineer to join our small team of passionate engineers and help build a high performance offline-first web and Electron app to augment collective human intelligence. If you’re excited about building a tool that acts like an IDE for human thought and enjoy working collaboratively with a team, message or email me a portfolio of projects and let’s talk! Pay: \[insert\] Start date: right away Twitter We’re hiring a cracked engineer to build a high performance offline first web and electron app at Ideaflow. Pay: \[insert\] Start date: right away If you’re interested in augmenting human intelligence and ready to jump right in with a team of exceptional engineers, I want to talk to you. DM me your portfolio of projects and why you want to work at Ideaflow. Looking for someone who would be able to build a high quality offline-first, real-time collaborative web and Electron app that's high performance and has real-time collaboration with CRDTs like Google Documents. Also someone who is able to build a powerful collaboratively editable real time graph visualization or mind mapping interface with zoom that reveals different levels of granularity like Nomic AI —[ ](https://www.nomic.ai/)<https://www.nomic.ai/> Spiritually our product is a bit like designing an IDE for human thought replete with high performance autocompletes And we're looking for someone who can get into making every detail of the interaction just right so it does not break the user's flow It's a Greenfield space as if space for someone who really likes aspects of Roam Research and Obsidian.md even if those tools don't quite fit your user needs. it's also a great opportunity for people who default to taking all their notes in giant text files Typescript, react, node Full stack – also, they will we are can make electron app crdt system Looking for someone who can make something like nomic Nomic AI —[ ](https://www.nomic.ai/)<https://www.nomic.ai/> \#hiringblurb <div> </div> --- *Source: <http://hiringblurb.jacobcole.net/>* *Google Doc: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5g3tOZnDOnIZ-_oz-VmqgexGnl4u1o-dsMxnhz9AOY>* *Scraped: 2026-01-30*