12) The answers won’t come from one single domain. Potential solutions comprise psychological insights, technological solutions, diligent craftsmanship, and audacious artistry.
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13) Better note-taking is one puzzle piece of better thinking, but there is more. We are emotional beings. Nobody lives in a vacuum. We must explore how to make better thinking available for a broad spectrum of people, not only for passionate avant-garde PKM hobbyists.
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14) “Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things.” — Sasha Chapin
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15) To have an impact, we have to leave the lab. We must explore better thinking with people outside the bubble whose interests go far beyond note-taking and PKM. We must explore this with poets, teachers, students, managers, and researchers.
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16) These people don’t get brownie points for accurately following a suggested workflow. These people benefit from generating, embodying, and applying new insights and ideas.
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17) We started Napkin as a self-funded, execution-oriented exploration company. While there is still more to learn than known, we are not a research company. We are focused on providing practical value along the way and started with a working prototype right from the beginning.
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18) Our hypothesis:
The system has to be beautiful. You have to want to use it.
The system has to be simple. The cognitive load required by using the system must be minimized so more cognitive bandwidth is available for the content.
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19) The system has to be effective. Relevant connections must be shown, and building upon them has to come with a low threshold.
The system has to allow for the emergence of structures. Nobody knows ahead of time which questions have to be answered.
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20) The system has to be timeless. Starting a thinking process with a blank page means wasting all ideas we encountered previously.
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Hard disagree there
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