Tools for thought
Tools for thought is a phrase used to describe a range of note-taking, annotation, and synthesis tools, coined by Howard Rheingold in 1985. It returned to popularity in the 2010s, applied to wiki and outlining tools.
Projects
[edit]Editors
[edit]Historical shifts: word (perfect + less-so), emacs, OOO, G
Outliners
[edit]Historical: More
Ecosystems
[edit]Historical: Lotus
Wikis
[edit]Historical: pattern repository, single-file (tiddly), networked (usemod/MW)
Personal knowledge bases
[edit]Roam, Obsidian, Logseq, ...
Knowledge embeddings
[edit]Modern NLP, DL models: easy metrics for 'closeness' + classification into fixed topics, more complex ones for automatic dimension discovery + classing
Events and discussions
[edit]Augment Minds 2021
[edit]A 2021/7/25 unconference, supported by open collective.
- Helpful links for the event; schedule
- List of related sites, notes, gardens: Anagora links, notes
- Related sessions + code: External aids, internal tools; loom