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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I'm curious what you think of what we're building at Roamresearch.com
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Cool! Quick take: interesting ideas connecting annotation to synthesis. Doesn't appear to be trying to be a reference library, but that's fine. Putting on my HCI researcher hat, I'd love an article breaking down what you see as the key insights here relative to NLS/Xanadu/&c
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Thanks, not quite a comparison with NLS/Xanadu, but here are some thoughts on why I think existing tools are poor tools for thought/dont meet criteria for a memex
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A brief rant on note-taking apps and the structure of thought. Or "Why Evernote is a terrible second brain."
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Definitely in agreement with that line of argument. Curious if you have a perspective on why the classic systems which attempted this didn’t succeed.
Distribution, business model, learnability of the systems, and culture
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I'm not really satisfied with the answer tbh, and it's an important question, so I'll add to it gradually. First on NLS:
The closest thing I've seen to NLS today is probably Spacemacs, (a vim flavored emacs config) particularly with the use of the org-mode outline package.
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