Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
I think this trend of better knowledge tools is missing two very important pieces of human nature<p>1. If we have time to enter something into a knowledge base of any kind - then we have time to just jot it on a piece of paper.<p>2. If we dont have time (or think it is important <i>at that moment</i>) then what solves the problem for us is not a knowledge base, but <i>search</i>.<p>You see the thing about Google and Facebook etc, is that if they were collecting all this information about me, and it was treated like <i>medical information about me</i> it would be far more useful to me (and far less useful to Advertisers).<p>I want a web browser that remembers every single page I have visited (#) and then lets me search them.  Then someone could write a spaced reminder thingy for me - spent more than 5 minutes on a web page did he - he will want to refresh that page in 2 weeks and then 4 months.<p>Yes, knowledge bases are excellent for clearly defined study efforts - like y'know, university, but for the rest of life, explicit note taking is a cost that we need some activation energy barrier for.<p>Put it this way, once upon a time I had a study book for a new programming language, and i took notes of interesting examples on a ring binder.  But the last time I learnt a new language I just relied on Google finding me the relevant StackOverflow pages - my cost/benefit line had changed.<p>(And notes just got dumped into a text file.)<p>(#) Ok maybe not <i>those</i> pages