Community with Ramses Oudt // Metamuse podcast episode 62

From fragmentation to integration: more recently, Memex has launched a feature which allows users to export highlights and notes to many formats and platforms, including Roam Research. However, while these signs of integration are promising, many tools for thought are still currently hard to work with together, and multi-tools workflows can be cumb... See more

These days, we get so much of our content in bite-sized, isolated bits — links in an email, tweets, Slack messages, blog posts. We consume information because it’s in front of us, rather than because it’s relevant for us. This continually present dynamic discourages reflection and thought. The future of content is about interfaces that can help us ... See more

I’d speculate that another factor is the half-life of cool new productivity software. Evernote, Slack, Notion, Roam, Craft, and many others seem to get pretty far on community excitement for their first few years. After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people’s lives. Muse got there f... See more