Indexed references vs. tags
The value of a note is derived from its connections with other notes. Tag notes in the context in which you want to discover them, not just where you found them.
A year ago, the idea of networking our notes with bi-directional links became the biggest thing in the tools for thought space since Vannevar Bush described the memex. Top-down hierarchies and tag systems became the pet explanation du jour for everything that was wrong with note-taking. So we all hustled on to the Double-Bracket Express determined ... See more
Dan Shipper • The Fall of Roam
Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.
All information tools have to give users some wa... See more
All information tools have to give users some wa... See more