Field-tested courses · since 2019
Learn the craft from people who still do the work.
Practical courses in design, writing, data and product — taught by working practitioners in 12-minute lessons you can finish between meetings.
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Data · Beginner
SQL for Curious Analysts
Today · Thu 1 Oct
- Lesson 06 — Arrows that carry meaning
- Note: loading ≠ empty
- Sketch the search box, 6 states
§ 01 — This season's shelf
Courses with one job each.
Every course ends with something you can use at work on Monday: a flow, a doc, a query, a pricing page.
§ 02 — How it works
A notebook, not a Netflix queue.
Fieldnote is built for finishing. Three habits carry you from the first lesson to a certificate you'd actually show someone.
- 01
Pick a field
Choose a course taught by someone who does the work every week — not a full-time course creator.
8 courses, 5 fields - 02
Learn in 12-minute lessons
Short videos with a single idea, timestamped notes and a worksheet. Watch on the train, practise at your desk.
≈ one coffee each - 03
Ship a notebook entry
Every module ends with an exercise on your real work. Finish the capstone and earn a certificate worth showing.
graded by humans
§ 03 — Instructors
Taught by people with day jobs.
Every instructor still practises what they teach. They record between projects, so lessons come with this year's examples.
Ines Varga
Principal Product Designer, Northlight Maps
14 yrs · 18.4k learners · ★ 4.9
- Led design on an app with 9M monthly users
- Taught sketching at Lisbon School of Design
Theo Marsh
Head of Documentation, Kestrel Cloud
11 yrs · 9.7k learners · ★ 4.8
- Built Kestrel's docs team from 1 to 9
- Editor of the Plain Docs newsletter
Priya Raman
Analytics Manager, Harbor Health
9 yrs · 22.1k learners · ★ 4.9
- Built Harbor's metric layer used by 400 staff
- Mentor at Data Cooperative Toronto
Dele Adeyemi
Engineering Manager & Facilitator, Tandem Freight
12 yrs · 13.6k learners · ★ 4.8
- Facilitated 300+ retros
- Certified Liberating Structures practitioner
Hana Lindqvist
Founder, Quietly
10 yrs · 7.8k learners · ★ 4.7
- Two bootstrapped products, both profitable
- Repriced 3 times without churn spikes
§ 04 — From the margins
Notes from people who finished.
“I sketch in every planning meeting now. Our PM started bringing a notebook too.”
re: Field Sketching
“Joins finally clicked. I wrote our retention query in week three and nobody had to check it twice.”
re: SQL for Curious Analysts
“Twelve-minute lessons fit between stand-ups. I finished two courses on my commute.”
re: Writing Docs People Finish
“Our retros went from ninety minutes of venting to forty minutes and one action that actually ships.”
re: Running Calm Retrospectives
“We rebuilt our API guide with Theo's structure. Support tickets about it dropped by a third in two months.”
re: Writing Docs People Finish
“I raised prices 30% after Hana's course. Two customers left; revenue still went up.”
re: Pricing Your First Product
§ 05 — Pricing
Pay for the notebook, keep the habit.
Buy a single course for life, or become a Member for everything. Cancel any time.
Free
Try the teaching before you commit.
$0forever- Preview lessons from every course
- Timestamped notes on previews
- The Field Notes weekly letter
Member
Most chosenEvery course, every exercise, every certificate.
$19per month, billed yearly- All 8 courses and every new release
- Exercises reviewed by teaching assistants
- Certificates of completion
- Worksheets, templates and datasets
- Export notes to Markdown
Team
For teams of 3 or more learning together.
$15per seat / month, billed yearly- Everything in Member
- Team progress dashboard
- Shared notebooks and reading lists
- SSO and invoice billing
- A quarterly live session with an instructor
Single courses from $59, yours forever. Students and non-profits get 50% off Member.
§ 06 — Questions
Things people ask before enrolling.
Entry № 001
Your first lesson is free. Start tonight.
Pick any course, watch the preview lessons, take notes. No account needed in this demo.