Shihab

SEO Consultant & Founder, Rankite.com

AI Tools Personal Knowledge Management Second Brain SaaS Software Development Productivity

Shihab is an SEO consultant and strategist, and the founder of Rankite.com. SEO has been his profession and obsession for years, and that work created a problem: managing hundreds of research notes, client insights, keyword data, and article ideas across too many tools.

He built Ainotely with his Rankite.com development team as an internal tool, first. It was built to solve a real problem they had every day, not to build a startup. When the team saw how much faster their own research and note-taking had become, they realised others in SEO and content work faced the same mess, and launched it as a product.

Shihab writes about AI note-taking and knowledge management from the perspective of someone who spends most of their working hours buried in research, search data, and client strategy, and who built software to make that sustainable.

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Articles Published

4,800+

App Users

2024

Founded Ainotely

PKM Topics Covered

Areas of Expertise

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AI Note-Taking Systems

Designing and building AI pipelines that process voice, text, images, and PDFs into organized, searchable knowledge bases.

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Voice Note Workflows

Building transcription pipelines and voice-first capture experiences that work in real-world conditions (noise, accents, speed).

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Personal Knowledge Management

Four years applying Zettelkasten, PARA, and second brain methods before building software to automate what was previously manual.

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SaaS Product Development

Full cycle from idea to production: architecture, AI integration, UX design, and growth. Ainotely serves thousands of users worldwide.

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