Notevantage

What if you had someone whose job it was to curate the best anecdotes and tidbits from non-fiction books and send them to you every Monday? If that’s what you’ve wished for the last 12 Christmas’s, I’ve got a non-salty surprise for you: It’s very much within your grasp. With the advent of Notevantage, you can buy your very own note-taking butler. As we all know, books take a long time to read, and we’ll never get through our entire wishlist. And for that matter, nor would we want to. Some books are legendary but their place in time is built on the pillars of a few scant pieces of information. You don’t want to read for 8 hours to only unearth three gold nuggets. There needs to be an extraction service, and so that’s what I’ve come up with. You might say, “Already been done, Kris. There’s a handful of book summary services out there. True but book summaries are flawed hacks. Book summaries are best used as a refresher AFTER you’ve read a book because summaries strip informati

If you’re not quite sure what you’re looking for but you know you’re looking for something, you probably just found it. Notevantage is a subscription service where I send you great tidbits, gold nuggets, etc. from the non-fiction books I read. It’s random and completely novel – there’s absolutely nothing else out there like it. If you were trying to categorize Notevantage, you’d throw up your hands and file it under book summary services like Blinkist and Get Abstract. But I’m not outsourcing people to churn out book summaries like McDonald’s assembly line hamburgers. This isn’t a streamlined business model; it’s a me-lined concept. I curate what tidbits get send out from my notes. And then when I deem some anecdote or key piece of info worthy of sending out, I dive into it and cover everything in-depth, from explanation to illustrations to how you can use that gold nugget to make a real, tangible, practical benefit to YOU. Emails go out once a week, on Monday, and they’re comple