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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smart / social bookmarking upstarts like are interesting also collaborative note taking like memo.co
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3/ Here's why we're building it medium.com/@refind/this-i and here's an invite: refind.com/invites/vgr
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Yes, Refind is all about links. You can add private notes to links though ;)
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no time to test another tool right now, but will refind refind when I'm in a mood to five this more thought :)
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