Increasingly curious as to why the tools-for-thought folk talk a lot about note-taking tool features and plugins and not at all about the cognitive science of better externalised thinking.
Per Alan Kay, it's a pop culture; for the most part, people aren't engaging deeply with the problem.
(separately, though I think the former is the true reason: I'm not optimistic that current cogsci theories about this particular topic present many powerful ideas)
I’ll send you an email next week with a summary of a body of work I’m currently digging into.
I’m still writing it, but there’s apparently 40 years of research + hypermedia implementation of learning systems in ill-structured domains.