7/ One, you need a calibrated amount of "social" enough that collected assets gain "interest" through socially filtered augmentation
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8/ Two, you need some mid-level cognition processing features, which Evernote does well (see: blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/12/1 by )
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9/ Three, you need a way to turn an impersonal stock (public web, organized by search) into a personal flow (private stream, like a slack)
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10/ Most people who process a lot of information use some complex mix of saved files (PDFs), evernote style notebooks, slack, email-to-self
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11/ This scheme is "distributed cognition": the theory that we spread our thinking around in space/time/social-space with right context cues
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12/ The problem with distributed cognition is that while each locus of organization gets you in the right mood to do different things....
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13/ ... The loci differ in their WORN characteristics, stream-like liveness, processing affordances etc. Some loci like Twitter are leaky.
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14/ My "squirrel map" of distributed cognition as I call it, has about 8 different storage loci with different processing/social/leak chars
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15/ Pro: compared to bookmarking, I can do a shit ton more, with much lower effort. Con: when I have to pull it together to act, it's messy
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16/ Right now I have to wait for "heavy lift mood" days to rein in the chaos to create action momentum. No tools are good for that.
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18/ My squirrel map: Slack, Scapple, email-to-self, FB group, Dropbox PDFs, Penultimate (from Evernote), paper scraps, notebooks, workflowy
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19/ ... outer ring: a couple of FB groups, other people's slacks, twitter search. Locus of last resort is of course just Google.
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"bot addled slack" sounds absolutely wonderful and a great blog post title to boot :D
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feedly (paid), iA Writer (paid), Instapaper (paid), Gmail, Evernote, Dropbox, last three linked via IFTTT
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I mainly rely on which I find as addictive as Pinterest. And they recently added a whole social level...
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Slack, RSS, Pocket (searchable, paid), Pinboard (paid), Apple Notes, Quiver (code), Dropbox, OmniFocus.
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self email (moving ideas home), Diaro (multi platform note taking & introspection), WikidPad, pdf's, random OpenOffice docs
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tried to use semantic web tools for a while - big ambitions - but too buggy and usability-challenged
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smart / social bookmarking upstarts like are interesting also collaborative note taking like memo.co
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