The screenshots and demos of every new "tools for thought" app exclusively show:
a) using the app to plan how to build the app, or
b) light historical research notes on TFT
Yet TFTs "require serious contexts for use" – notes.andymatuschak.org/zs5uUEv9iJH7Ju
🤔 We've missed a beat here.
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my notes are only as useful as their ability to be applied to a real-world problem I'm working on, and the end product of that problem is usually code, designs, diagrams/visuals, a presentation or a "doc", all of which are either shared with others or functionally do a thing
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if my notes don't guide me to sharing an artifact with others or producing a functioning thing, they tend to not be all that useful. And as time goes on, they decay very quickly
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It's relatively infrequent that I make use of connections to much older notes to help me in the current context of solving a problem. The only exception is bugs in programming.
It's somewhat frequent though that I re-reference produced artifacts that were shared.
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More talking about the way these apps present and explain themselves on landing pages and marketing demos, rather than the things individual users publicly share.