Simon Willison Adds Notes Feature to Blog Beats for Richer Content Annotation

Summary

Simon Willison, a prominent voice in the AI-assisted development community, has added a 'notes' annotation feature to the 'beats' system on his blog. Beats, introduced in February 2026, aggregate his content from external sources onto his blog's homepage, search, and archive pages. The new notes feature allows Willison to add explanatory annotations to individual beats, which previously appeared as bare links without context. This is a personal blogging infrastructure update rather than a broad