Twitter, do you have a system for your reference library—construed broadly to include web articles, images, games, videos, etc—not just papers?
Note-taking software feels ill-suited to the purpose; academic reference library apps too heavy for this; webapps are all too slow; etc
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Thank you for sharing, all! Reflections:
Many people suggested text-centric note-taking apps for this purpose. The interaction paradigm seems misaligned: I think of this need in terms of ubiquitous capture, seeing, connecting, searching, synthesizing, etc. Feels more like this.
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For me, the use case needs low-latency capture and meandering, which means local copies of everything and native performance.
No one mentioned DEVONthink, though it's a big player in this category. Unfortunately, its UI. Keep It is a nice new alternative, but fairly barebones.
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One common theme appeared to be that basically everyone was frustrated with their current solution! That's interesting.
Maybe it's hard to enter this market because everyone has very different conceptions of what they want from such a tool.
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There’s just not a good name for this tool, because I don’t feel it should be a tool. It should be a fundamental feature that’s omnipresent and part of the browser or OS. It’s like *the* thing your doing whenever you’re not doing the actual thing.
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I agree completely.
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Maybe make the videos, web pages, etc into physical papers, a la Dynamicland? Create a physical space to move them around in, rather than relying on virtual space of an app? Or maybe create a VR space for them?
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I did some research cause was frustrated with the Notes ecosystem and got to the same conclusion. Everybody has a different idea of what the perfect app is.
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And here is the blog post about my desired requirements for a perfect notes app.
alejandromp.com/blog/2019/02/1
I got carried away 
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there was just an article (in hacker news?) about Evernote and their history, which I found fascinating, especially with regards to how their vision is/was/wasn't/isagain just what you're saying.
I had always just thought of it as fancy notes.
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It's not going to solve all your problems or be a one stop shop for content.* but you might want to play around with realtimeboard (now Miro) realtimeboard.com which is the closest thing I've used to a nice blank wall to put things on.
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Plus: I want a solution that keeps me in control of the data collection for life and after the developing company goes under. The software market does not serve that need. Can only be open source.
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Looking for a memex too !
From Vannevar Bush's vision, Doug Engelbart's NLS, ’s Xanadu, Alan Kay's ideas on learning we recently get the exiting ’s DynamicLand.
Could we have a sort of limited DynamicLand on our computers ? on our phones ?
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Should there be *only one* software combining the principles and capacities of Hypercard, Tiddlywiki, DEVONThink/VoodooPad/Evernote/KeepIt, Pocket/Instapaper, Pinboard, a spreadsheet, Smalltalk and Emacs ?
Could this software give satisfaction to the various users' need ?
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