Beats now have notes
<p>Last month I <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/20/beats/">added a feature I call beats</a> to this blog, pulling in some of my other content from <a href="https://simonwillison.net/elsewhere/">external sources</a> and including it on the homepage, search and various archive pages on the site.</p> <p>On any given day these frequently outnumber my regular posts. They were looking a little bit thin and were lacking any form of explanation beyond a link, so I've added the ability to annotate them with a "note" which now shows up as part of their display.</p> <p>Here's what that looks like <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/">for the content I published yesterday</a>:</p> <p><img class="blogmark-image" style="width:80%" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/
23rd March 2026
Last month I added a feature I call beats to this blog, pulling in some of my other content from external sources and including it on the homepage, search and various archive pages on the site.
On any given day these frequently outnumber my regular posts. They were looking a little bit thin and were lacking any form of explanation beyond a link, so I've added the ability to annotate them with a "note" which now shows up as part of their display.
Here's what that looks like for the content I published yesterday:
I've also updated the /atom/everything/ Atom feed to include any beats that I've attached notes to.
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