#4 Roam Research — What comes after a renaissance?

Ultimately, I suspect I will always want more from note-taking software than it gives me — because what I truly want is for the software to read my mind. I want it to extract my thoughts automatically (and securely!) and polish them until they resemble wisdom. And I want it to resurface my ideas at calculated intervals, helping me make new connecti... See more

The bigger issue, though, is what I have come to think of as note-taking’s camera roll problem: no matter how well they organize themselves, most notes are still doomed to be forgotten. When it came to pictures, Timehop and later Google Photos addressed this problem by making an effort to resurface old photos in a variety of ways: on the anniversar... See more

Of course, software can only take you so far. I still don’t write down most of the thoughts that I have, even on subjects I have written multiple columns about. Nor do I try to disstill these thoughts into sharp-edged little maxims the way Matuschak does in his own note-taking practice. He says he spends two hours a day refining notes he has previo... See more